Inventor Lady

Month: March 2010

  • The Cost of Patenting

    I had a client call me last week for the sole purpose of venting.  It seems that she had received an office action from the USPTO and was upset over how much it was going to cost her to have her attorney answer the office action.   Her telephone call caused me to reflect and resulted ultimately…

  • Inventor Warning: Caution is the Keyword in Dealing with IPHC’s

    I recently had a call from a patent attorney who wanted me to introduce him to my clients so that he could offer to buy their intellectual property from them. He has, what is called, an “Intellectual Property Holding Company” or “IPHC”. IPHC’s come in essentially three different flavors.  The first category consists of those…

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