Tips Page

#1. Choose your attorney or patent agent based on a number of good references.

#2. Be very wary about patent development companies. Look them up on the USPTO web.

#3. Check with the Better Business Bureau about their record.

#4. The more money they ask for up front, the more wary you should be.

#5. Never reveal details about how to construct your invention without a signed information disclosure document.

#6. Learn as much as you can about the patent system procedures, but do not even think about writing the whole patent yourself.

#7. Paying for a High Quality search of other intellectual property first is the best money you will spend.