How to write your own patent

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued patents to protect of inventors, their inventions by others duplicated united States and sold for profit. The legal protection of patents can invaluable and offers up to 20 years in most cases a competitive advantage. Type patent patents are as one of three types: plant and design utility. Utility patents are the most common and contained useful and machines process. Patents relate to asexual reproduction of plants plant and design patents are substance ornamental designs.Filing FeesFees include the filing, search, check and publish allowance (only if the patent is granted) expenses (see resources for a complete list of September 2009). Total costs are $2,600 for the patent of utility, $1 910, patents and $1,320 design patents for plants. Small units, defined as "An independent inventor, a small business concern or a non-profit organization" at a discount of 50% on fees.Maintenance may FeesFees, must be paid to the utility of the conservation and protection of the plant patent term. These fees are $980 after three years and a half, $2,480 after years of 7.5 and $4,110 after years of 10.5 (see resources). Applies.ApplicationApplicants 50 per 100 small entity can register online discount with the USPTO as eFilers (see resources for the link). Information about the applicant and the invention is seized, request for review.Protection DurationUtility and plant patents protect for twenty years from the date of the application. Patents protect design 14 years from the date of issue.