http://www.patentauthority.com/statutory-invention-registration-sir/ Patents, News, and Intellectual Property Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:01:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 http://www.patentauthority.com/statutory-invention-registration-sir/#comment-7611 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:56:20 +0000 http://www.patentauthority.com/statutory-invention-registration-sir/#comment-7611 How can I register any new invention system to my name so no body can claim later on that it is his idea or steal the idea and say that it is his? How can I register any new invention system to my name so no body can claim later on that it is his idea or steal the idea and say that it is his?

]]> http://www.patentauthority.com/statutory-invention-registration-sir/#comment-2894 Thu, 10 May 2007 22:46:41 +0000 http://www.patentauthority.com/statutory-invention-registration-sir/#comment-2894 [...] Make it free to file a Statutory Invention Registration (SIR), which provides an inventor with the protection of public record of the invention, but waives all monopoly (patent) rights to the invention. Publishing the details of an invention in an academic journal has much the same effect, but submitting an SIR helps the patent office find prior art much more effectively (prior art unknown to examiners being one of the main problems with the current system). SIRs are woefully under-utilized in the US system, both because they are still expensive to obtain, and because they are little-known (try and find some info about them on the USPTO’s webpage, I dare you). Since this is largely a service to help the USPTO, why do they charge us for it? [...] […] Make it free to file a Statutory Invention Registration (SIR), which provides an inventor with the protection of public record of the invention, but waives all monopoly (patent) rights to the invention. Publishing the details of an invention in an academic journal has much the same effect, but submitting an SIR helps the patent office find prior art much more effectively (prior art unknown to examiners being one of the main problems with the current system). SIRs are woefully under-utilized in the US system, both because they are still expensive to obtain, and because they are little-known (try and find some info about them on the USPTO’s webpage, I dare you). Since this is largely a service to help the USPTO, why do they charge us for it? […]

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