Publisher's Synopsis
Understand the patentability of your invention and avoid expensive patent-searching fees with this step-by-step guide. With Patent Searching Made Easy, you can:
- Get the best answer to the inventor's all-important question when it comes to profiting from an idea: "Am I the first?"
- quickly and effectively research your idea or invention to see whether anyone has already patented it
- optimally describe and classify your invention, and target your search
- figure out whether your idea is new enough to qualify for a patent
- verify the patent status of ideas submitted to you (if you're a developer), and
- use the latest federal and international search-related resources.
Written for both inventors and business owners interested in expanding their product line through the license, distribution or manufacture of other people's ideas
