[nylug-talk] Employer Pattent Rights

[Joshua Zeidner]

On 2/2/07, jh <jhlists at hirschman.net> wrote:
> Andrew Pliszka wrote:
> > Thanks a lot for your help. The problem is that if you tell your
> > investors that a patent is pending, then they are more interested.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> I'm not a lawyer, but I have some personal experience with the patent
> process and investors.
>
> Most investors yawned when I told them that I had a patent pending.
> Those that did invest were strangely disinterested in pursuing the
> patent, despite the advice of a patent attorney that felt that my
> invention was both novel and worth protecting.

   Here is the problem.  A person who is invested in the system( USPTO
) is not going to admit that it is useless.  So, there are very few
people who understand the problems of patents, who have not extended
$80K to get a degree in patent law.  So naturally your lawyer is going
to claim that patents are valuable, because that is his business.  The
few people who did run through the system act as the sole testimony
against the general publics assumptions about what patents can
actually do for them.

   http://www.uspto.gov/go/taf/us_stat.htm

-jmz

>
> In short, unless you have the patent, they aren't going to get all that
> excited unless they are very unsophisticated.
>
> My $.02.
>
> jh
>
>
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