August 25, 2006 | Comments: (0)
Electronic Patent Filing Gets Facelift
If your SMB is about a new technology that's all your own, then patent filing is on your horizon. Unfortunately, for many smaller businesses, that's a real problem as a single filing can run as much as $20K depending on how it's applied. The US Patent Office put some electronic filing guidelines out there a few years back so that smaller organizations could avoid middlemen or lawyers, but for the most part these were so Byzantine as to be all but useless unless you hired a specialist anyway.
Until now. If you've tried electronic filing before and been turned off, take a minute and check it out again. The new USPTO guidelines include support for straight PDF files, there's a bunch of new electronic forms and you also get a filing receipt right away. Worth checking into.
Posted by Oliver Rist on August 25, 2006 08:36 PM
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