samedi 11 janvier 2014

How To Choose The Best Among The Many Patent Attorneys

By Marissa Velazquez


As an investor you need to protect your invention from illegal use or selling. To be able to do this, you need to have a good understanding of the patent law and rules and legal protection office procedures and practices. You can prepare your own applications of a legal protection and file them but if you do not have the knowledge that the patent attorneys have, you could get into considerable difficulty. You may be granted a legal protection but later realize that it does not adequately protect your invention. Just hiring an attorney is not enough; you need to make sure that you have chosen the best. Below are the guidelines of finding the best.

It is important to find an attorney who is also an engineer. This is because his legal knowledge will help in ascertaining the right regulation while his engineering knowledge helps him to understand the situation better and this also enables him to prepare the application easily in patenting language. If possible you should choose an attorney whose engineering background has a relation to your field of invention.

One should endeavor to establish the previous practicing record of the attorney. A client would easily get this information from finding more from the attorney about the experience he has in doing such work. The professional should be able to share with the potential client the nature of inventions he has dealt with and the duration he has been offering the services. Where applicable, he should provide you with some referrals to a number of his previous clients for confirmation of satisfaction.

The cost of the service is another factor that you should consider. You need an attorney who will charge you considerably. He should provide you with a cost estimate indicating how the payments should be done. It is important to contact many lawyers and compare their charges so that you do not end up paying higher than you are supposed to.

It is important to trust your instincts when choosing the right attorney. Normally a contract with this attorney lasts for 2 to 3 years. This means that the one you choose to work with will be around for that long so you should be careful and take as much time as possible to not make a mistake in your choice. It is advisable not to use an agent when selecting the attorney instead you should connect with him directly without any intermediate party.

A suitable attorney should be a holder of a practicing license. One should always insist on experts who are legally allowed to perform this type of work. A confirmation of the validity of his license is also important to avoid the risk of contracting a non professional.

The attorney that you have chosen will help you find a qualified and independent patenting agent. Though you could find one yourself, an attorney is better placed in finding the right one. In his career time, he must have come across many. The work of a patenting agent is to examine your invention.

It is important to confirm if the agent comes from an independent professional agency and not an in-house examiner. When more independent parties are involved in patenting your invention, you are assured that the process will have fewer conflicts. Therefore the agents and patent attorneys are very important and you should ensure they are very reliable to work with.




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