WHAT IS PATENT PENDING...? DOES IT PROTECT YOUR INVENTION...? Answer... Very little at best.

patents, provisional patents, provisional patent applications, nonprovisional patents, nonprovisional patent applications, vetting, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights, ideas, sales & marketing, licence agreements, patent lawyers, patent attorneys, intellectual property attorneys, patent file wrapperssteve's two books on inventing. Whether you've filed either a Provisional Patent application or non Provisional application, do not be lulled into a false sense of security, since you have PATENT PENDING STATUS! Your Intellectual Property is far from bullet-proof! Patent Pending does not grant you any meaninful patent protection whatsoever! It's nealy impossible for you to be able to enforce any meaningful patent rights, because the PTO has NOT GRANTED you a Patent yet!
At this point, your application is just in their system, and your claims are only up for consideration!
During the PENDING STAGE, the only thing that you've established is a filing date / priority date.
In short, your priority date gives you the ability to establish what is known as CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE should someone or some entity begins to produce, market & sell a similar product under one or more of your claims. Your filing date provides a starting point, or what's known as Constructive Notice, a point from which you can establish your intellectual property rights and begin to calculate your potential damages caused by the would-be infriger. All of this Patent Pending status is mute anyway, until such time that some form of your claims has been awarded to you in the form of an official patent grant... and then the fight begins! Bottom line..., don't ever count on being awarded damages or count on striking a licensing agreement with a would-be infringer. Those types of outcomes only happen in fairy tales.

World Class Inventors: Ideas, Patents, Trademarks, Trade Secrets, Copyrights, Sales & Marketing
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Here's the value of my books...
I have at minimum, well over 1,000 hours of writing that has gone into each piece. Both books are the culmination of a 20 year long journey that started off with nothing more than an idea.

MY BIO
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I am the most cited inventor in the history of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in the field of oil filtration; a ten billion dollar, annually repeatable market in North America alone.

My FLASH OF GENIUS moment came a knockin' when I was in my early twenties, while I was driving tractor trailers over-the-road throughout the United States. Without any prior technical experience, I was granted two benchmark patents in this highly technical field and my patents & intellectual property portfolio would change the way that oil filters are presently made, marketed and conceptualized around the world.

By the time I was 35, I had earned my second utility patent in the field of oil filtration.
A year later, and for the second time, I got my foot in the door of AlliedSignal on a blind cold call!
My patents & extensive IP portfolio would give birth to the Fram Doubleguard oil filter, and shortly thereafter, the Fram TRT oil filter.
The Doubleguard was featured in Walmart and many of the major automotive retailers throughout North America & it would sell over $100MM worth of product in three months in Walmart alone!
And that was just the beginning of my journey!

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