发明人信息

基本要求

There are four basic requirements that a successful inventor applicant must meet:

1. 是爱达荷州的个人或小企业 – as defined in the Eligibility Guidelines below.

2. 有合格的家庭收入吗 – which cannot exceed 300% of federal poverty level for an individual as published annually by the U.S. 卫生与公众服务部. 对于小型企业，请参见下文.

3. 展示专利制度的知识 – evidenced by successful completion of the online 证书训练课程.

4. 证明发明 -不仅仅是一个想法. 展示一项发明, you should be able to describe the invention so that someone else could actually make and use it. CAUTION: Do not publicly disclose your invention prior to filing a 专利申请 or at least a provisional application for a patent. A public disclosure could make it prior art against itself, resulting in an inability to secure a patent.

资格指南和限制 

Please be sure to review these program eligibility guidelines below before starting your application. 一旦你提交了申请, 我们会审核并与您联系, either to discuss outstanding questions or to connect you with a volunteer attorney. Please note that you may be asked to provide verification of both income and compliance with other program eligibility guidelines.

谁可以申请?

个人发明家:

• are U.S. 美国公民或合法居住在美国的人.S.;
• 总部设在爱达荷州;
• have a total household income of less than 300% of the poverty guidelines as published annually by the U.S. 卫生与公众服务部;
• are not currently under an obligation to assign the rights to the invention; 
• have possession of an actual invention, not just an idea; and
• 已经完成了 USPTO在线培训模块.

小型企业:

• 是爱达荷州的企业;
• 只有4个或更少的发明家, where each inventor has total household income of less than 300% of the poverty guidelines as published annually by the U.S. 卫生与公众服务部;
• 总收入低于150美元,000 in the preceding calendar year and expect a total gross income of less than $150,本历年为000英镑;
• are not currently under an obligation to assign the rights to the invention; 
• have possession of an actual invention, not just an idea; and
• 已经完成了 USPTO在线培训模块.

其他指引及限制

过去申请专利的努力

1. We will not accept applications to handle a case that was started by another attorney.
2. We will not accept an unfiled application that was partially or wholly drafted by another attorney.
3. 根据 37 CFR § 1.29, we will not accept any application where one of the listed inventors has been named on more than 4 previous U.S. 专利或未决申请. There is a limited exception for former employees who assigned all rights to a previously issued patent or patents to a former employer.

发明家的义务

1. The inventor is responsible for all official fees. These include the official 专利申请 filing fees due at the time of filing and the issue fee that is due prior to grant of the patent. 其他官方费用也可能包括在内.
2. The inventor must promptly respond to all requests for assistance from the attorney (including providing necessary signed paperwork), to prevent the need to pay late fees to the USPTO. If late fees are required because of the timing of a response to such a request from the inventor, the inventor must furnish the fees ahead of time.
3. If drawings are required for a complete understanding of the invention (which is usually the case), preparation of the drawings is the responsibility of the inventor. If a professional draftsman is required, the inventor is responsible for any drafting fees.

律师的服务

1. The attorney will attend to drafting and filing one non-provisional U.S. 专利申请.*
2. The attorney will prosecute the 专利申请 at the USPTO until either (i) a response is filed to a final office action, 或者(ii)该申请作为专利发布.*
3. The attorney is not responsible for requests for continued examination, appeals, challenges to USPTO decisions in a court of law, 在(b)所列事件发生后提出检控, 国外专利申请, 国际专利申请, 或额外的U.S. 专利申请.
4. The attorney’s services may be expanded by mutual agreement between the inventor and the attorney, 哪些应该写下来.
5. The attorney will require no attorney fees or paralegal fees for the listed services, but may require prepayment of outside costs such as government filing fees.
6. The attorney may only withdraw from representation if allowed to do so under the applicable ethical rules.

*Some of the volunteer attorneys will perform novelty or prior art searches only.  在这些情况下, we will attempt to also match accepted applicants with a volunteer  attorney who will complete the services listed in paragraphs 1 and 2 above.

应用程序发明家

1. 个人发明人申请
2. 小型企业应用

Disclaimer

We do our best to match accepted applicants to volunteers; however, we cannot guarantee that a volunteer will ultimately agree to take on your matter. Accepted applicants will receive the volunteer attorney services for free but will be required to pay the COSTS associated with the 专利申请, such as government filing fees and drafting costs.