I need to patent a process!
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You will be required to send your payent application and the requuired fee to Washington DC with either a prototype or full drawings.
Once they review your application, they will search thier database for anything remotely similiar, if nothing turns up, you will recieve a certified letter in the mail stating that it is patent pending, your actual patent will not arrive for two to ten years.
Once they review your application, they will search thier database for anything remotely similiar, if nothing turns up, you will recieve a certified letter in the mail stating that it is patent pending, your actual patent will not arrive for two to ten years.
My dad got a patent. It cost about $6000 for a patent lawyer, although I have the feeling that he got pwned.
Yes he did, you can do it yourself for free, very easy to do matter of fact.
Just do the paperwork and pay the fees.
Just do the paperwork and pay the fees.
I know a few people who have, but they went through our corporate lawyers, and it seemed to be an exceedingly painful process.
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Originally posted by: MogulMonster
So, ATOT hasn't killed all of your brain. Great market to stick yourself into, BTW.
ATOT keeps one half of my brain entertained while the other half is running some heavy computations.
I have found that some of my best ideas come from when I'm taking a course, and I start to lose concentration on the material, next thing I know I'm writing down thoughts that have nothing to do with the class. Results in a horrible GPA but it will pay off someday if I can make some money from these ideas.
hmm, that's cool. my school does spam blocking/filtering based on hundreds of rules, assigns a weight to each of these rules, and then finally determines that likelihood that a particular e-mail is spam. if it's more than 50% likely that the e-mail is spam, it adds a tag to the beginning for the sujbect [PMX:###] to indicate that it's spam, with each "#" indicating an extra 10% probability that the e-mail is spam. (therefore, the above example indicates an 80% chance that the email is spam). then through outlook you can add a simple rule to filter out these e-mails based on percentage. i have really relaxed rules - i'm filtering at 50% probability. the rules are damn good, so far i get 100% spam blocking, and maybe 1-2% false positives. i can probably increase the outlook rules to filter out only 60-70, and i might get rid of the false positives, but it works so well that i think that i'll just leave it as it is.
here's some possible competition. my school uses PureMessage
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My antispam method is only complimentary, I don't think it would work well by itself.
What your school is using, PureMessage, is a bayesian algorithm designed by ActiveState which was recently acquired by Sophos.
The difficulty with bayesian is that there are hundreds, sometimes thousands of tokenized rules. The value of each token is adjusted based on email traffic. This is known as "bayesian training". Unfortunately, where this succeeds as a desktop solution, fails as an enterprise solution. When you have 500 employees, each within departments of different themes, the bayesian loses effectiveness while increasing false positives.
Another problem with Bayesian is that spammers quickly identify the rulesets, and use their own tokenizing software to counteract it. It's war of the algorithms. That's why lately you see emails that use non traditional characters in their content, or a dump of an excerpt of some book, or no text at all and just load an image via html.
Depends on the kind of patent. Utility patents are good for 20, design patents for 14. After that they're public domain.
Filing it yourself is pretty inexpensive but unless you seriously know WTF you're doing your patent won't be worth the paper it's printed on. The point is to have a patent that will stand up to litigation, so it has to be very carefully worded and drawn.
quick google search finds this handy site:
what does it cost to get a patent
You have to pay maintenance fees on the patent as well, a typical schedule is $880 due at 3.5 years, $2020 due at 7.5 years, and $3100 due at 11.5 years.
My company deals with patents on products all the time, in fact I met with 2 patent attorneys yesterday to discuss a new product. I'm no expert but I'll try to answer any questions.
The ONLY protection a patent affords you is the right to sue someone else for infringement. Write that on the blackboard 500 times until you get it firmly into your head.
Therefore, you go out and find patent lawyers in your field who have won the most infringement cases, and hire them to file your patent.
The four-year wait for a patent is a great thing, because "patent pending" is equally good protection - in fact, it's better protection than an actual patent because you don't have to disclose anything. A patent, once approved, is released to the public.
Good luck!
Therefore, you go out and find patent lawyers in your field who have won the most infringement cases, and hire them to file your patent.
The four-year wait for a patent is a great thing, because "patent pending" is equally good protection - in fact, it's better protection than an actual patent because you don't have to disclose anything. A patent, once approved, is released to the public.
Good luck!
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