IP.com, a global leader in intellectual property management, offers Peer Reviewers coveted access to highly sought-after patent and patent-related databases from around the world, free of charge.
Patent Education - This is a link to a Wyoming attorney's site (acquired link 9/20/22) which has quite a few educational answer links to various questions about patents, trademarks, and copyrights. The Protecting Your Business with Patents and Trademarks page does not ask for any of your information. It is straightforward and the links appear to also be educational in nature rather than marketing. The link was passed to us by the attorney who said his daughter put together the links for informational purposes. They also have a number of other interesting subjects at the bottom of the page.
IPWatchDog.com - GENE QUINN - is patent attorney in New Hampshire with extensive credentials. He is a regular contributor to Inventor's Digest and runs IPWatchdog.com which has been a trusted resource on intellectual property for tens of millions of unique visitors for nearly 2 decades. Recognized as one of the leading sources for news, information, analysis and commentary in the patent and innovation industries, IPWatchdog.com has grown into the largest online intellectual property publication in the world. This is an exellent source of IP information including patent processing, NDAs, what's happening in Washington, and strageic IP planning.
Greentree Information Services - 301-469-0902 George Harvill has been recommended by the Inventors Society of South Florida President Jeff Christlieb as an economical and accurate patent searcher based very near the Patent Office in Washington DC. In 2014 virtually all his searches, without opinion, cost substantially less than $800 and some are as little as $350. These include foreign art if necessary. Give him a call for free estimate and non-disclosure agreement.
www.SearchQuestPatents.com - 303-910-8889 - The Comprehensive and Independent patent/product search. The process of getting an idea from mind to market can seem a bit daunting. It’s also a process that can be riddled with challenges and is ripe with opportunity to make costly mistakes.
The first step to avoid costly mistakes that have the potential to completely derail your success the most is the Comprehensive Patent Search done by an Independent Third Party. SearchQuest Patent Search is the only company that does a comprehensive,
independent search for a flat rate that includes the uspto, the international search and a product search.
info@searchquestpatents.com
Secretary's Note: Rita gave a great presentation to us in 2021 about the value of her dedicated search service that covers USPTO, international, and commercial searches all in a low cost package.
Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor, and Reed, P.A. - RICHARD S. DELLINGER and JUDY SULLIVAN - Founded in Orlando, Florida in 1969, Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor and Reed, P.A. is a multi-practice law firm with 110 attorneys. We represent clients across a myriad of industries locally, nationally and beyond our borders, advising on almost every aspect of business: from patents and trademarks to high-stakes, high-profile litigation; from complex commercial and residential real estate issues to wealth management; from labor and employment law to healthcare; from capital raising and entity formation to corporate growth and expansion. Rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell peer review, the firm is a founding member of Meritas, a global network of over 160 independent law firms with more than 6,000 attorneys. Richard Dellinger Biography
[editor's note: Richard and Courtney gave a great presentation on Trademarks to us in August 2012 but no member has actually done business with them. Please let us know your experience]
Patent Planet
- A California Patent Attorney put this site up.
It contains many articles on patents and patent law.
It is a good place to get inside information.
The Patent Professor ®
is the leading law firm for advising, educating, and helping inventors nationwide in protecting their ideas. Founded and led by Professor John Rizvi, Esq., a Board Certified Patent Attorney, with specialized industry experience, having completed over 1,200 patent cases over the past 20 years.
John Rizvi, Esq. is BOARD CERTIFIED by the Florida Bar as a SPECIALIST in Intellectual Property Law.
Board Certification is the highest level of recognition of the competency and experience of attorneys in specialized areas of law approved by the Supreme Court of Florida. Certification was established to assist consumers of legal services in selecting specialists in various areas of law. In order to qualify as a Board Certified Patent Attorney, John Rizvi, Esq. had to prove years of focused practice as a patent attorney, successfully pass a separate examination exclusively on intellectual property law, and undergo substantial peer review scrutiny proving his credentials as a specialist. Only a tiny handful of patent attorneys in the entire country are Board Certified as specialists.
If you were undergoing an important surgery, wouldn’t you want the doctor cutting you open to have proven their knowledge and experience before their peers in the medical profession?
Power Patent - Ralph E. Warmack, PhD, a Registered Patent Agent from the St. Petersburg area gave a nice presentation to us in February 2013. Click here to view a copy of his slides. It covered many of the issues created by the America Invents Act and how to deal with some of the innovation stifling new first-inventor-to-file requirements. He is also a representitive of Power Patent which is a software package which assists you in developing a provisional patent (of which we all will be doing more). ProvisionalBuilder helps you by organizing and cataloging your information while it does live searches to find other inventions which may compete with yours. It has some tools to help you prepare illustrations and a direct link to the USPTO for filing your provisional patent. It does not think for you. Nor does it reduce any filing fees. But this tool automates what you might do manually to help you more quickly file your provisional application. This is a tool to help you along. It is up to you to determine if it fills your needs. Since, at this point, no one in ICCF has actually used the software we cannot recommend for or against it. Check it out. It may be what you need.
Rapake Law
- Innovative, affordable patent services. Andrew Rapacke, a patent agent with a background in elecrical engineering and computer science, gave a presentation on
Patent Law for the Inventor in Feburary 2015 which is a Power Point show you can download by clicking on the title.
United States Patent Office - Pro Bono
- The Patent office has nationwide options for free legal services for filing a patent if your household income is less than 3 times the Federal Poverty Guidelines. That number may be higher than you think.
For those of you in Florida the program in place is sponsored by the Arts and Business Council of Miami.
Veterans Intellectual Property
- As a nonprofit, Veterans IP's mission is to provide pro bono patenting services to veterans and their dependents. We also provide advice on other forms of intellectual property protection, including copyrights and trademarks. If you are a veteran or military dependent and have an idea for an invention, we can help you figure out if it's patentable and what steps to take next.