The firm has three offices at present, the main office being located in the Midwest. The second office is located across the street from the US Patent & Trademark office in Arlington, Va. and the third office, on the West Coast, has just relocated to Newport Beach, Ca.

Cumulative experience of the staff conservatively totals over 60 years, and all arts are represented. We specialize in us patent search, patent search, new inventions, us patents, and trademark search.

We offer U.S. as well as worldwide foreign filing options and we have our own draftsperson on staff who prepares all drawings, U.S. and foreign.

Ours is a full service no frills firm, whose product quality has never disappointed our worldwide client base. Also, our no frills ethic allows us to serve at hourly rates well below the usual and customary levels.

Since time is money, you will note the lack of visual displays on our website. No time is lost in waiting for the frills, and our bottom line page is a simple, succinct pricing chart for your ready reference.

For those who have time to browse, we provide an informational addendum, which distinguishes the various fields of practice from one another and provides a "nutshell" synopsis entitled "What to do with an Idea".

If the idea is deemed to be patentable matter, a search should first be performed.

A patentability search is a search performed through prior art, which consists of previously issued patents, publications, etc., at the Trademark Office in Washington, D.C. which is pertinent to the invention at hand.

To have a search performed by an attorney or agent, it is best to provide a drawing of the item if such is available, a description of the item including what it is, what it does, how it works, and why it is believed to be better than anything that is available at the time. This information is useful to a searcher performing the search at the Office.

Inasmuch as it is the structure of an item which is patentable, the structure should be set forth as clearly and concisely as possible in the description, assisting the searcher in locating the relevant prior art.

The results of the search provide the inventor with a two-fold answer. Part of the answer deals with providing an opinion as to whether the item is patentable or if rights to a substantially identical item are owned by someone else.

In this respect, although an item may not be seen on the market, this does not necessarily mean someone does not already have a reserve on it. In fact, almost 6,000,000 patents have been issued and there are by no means 6,000,000 products out on the market. What the absence of this item out on the market may mean is that someone owns rights to it but does not know what to do with those rights once same have been obtained.

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