{"id":18362,"date":"2014-07-09T09:01:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T13:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devwp.davison.com\/blog\/?p=18362"},"modified":"2017-08-21T13:44:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T17:44:06","slug":"when-is-the-right-time-to-get-a-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/when-is-the-right-time-to-get-a-patent\/","title":{"rendered":"When is the Right Time to Get a Patent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patents and inventions go hand-in-hand. A patent is a crucial piece to the invention puzzle, because it protects your idea by granting you the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18363\" title=\"shutterstock_141325435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_141325435-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When a company considers an idea for a new product, it may be advised, \u201cThe first thing you need to do is file for your patent as quickly as possible.\u201d\u00a0 Particularly now that the US is a \u201cFirst-Inventor-to File\u201d system, some patent service providers have made much of the idea of filing immediately.\u00a0 However, rushing to file an application before your idea is properly developed and researched can lead to wasted money, a false sense of security and dashed hopes.\u00a0 Some basic facts about patents:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not all \u201cideas\u201d are patentable.\u00a0 Abstract ideas, laws of nature, non-novel ideas, and obvious adaptations are just a few of the types of \u201cideas\u201d that are simply not patentable.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ideas that are not machines, compositions, a process, or a product (article of manufacture) are not the types of ideas that a utility patent addresses.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If you have not developed the idea to the extent that you are able to describe in sufficiently precise detail how the idea would work, or if you are not sure if it would work, then you do not yet have a patentable idea.<\/p>\n<p>In short, yes, filing as soon as it is practical is important, but understanding when it is practical can avoid unnecessary cost and frustration.<\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright Davison \u00a02014<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/inventors\/patents.jsp\">http:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/inventors\/patents.jsp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patents and inventions go hand-in-hand. A patent is a crucial piece to the invention puzzle, because it protects your idea by granting you the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United States. When a company considers an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[713],"tags":[33,1511,94,417,1799,102,714,1800,1801],"class_list":["post-18362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patents","tag-davison-inventions","tag-invention-patent","tag-inventions","tag-patent","tag-patentable-idea","tag-patenting","tag-patents-2","tag-united-states-patent-office","tag-uspto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>When is the Right Time to Get a Patent? - Davison<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Davison confidentially works with people to develop their new product ideas. 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