patents since 1992 has been the private practice of Peter O'Donovan Gibson
pending who: fully prepared all applications resulting in U.S. Patents shown
in appendix hereto including drawings; conducted all the searches;
and prosecuted all said applications before the U.S. Patent Office.
patents are grants of monopoly to intellectual property by sovereign states:
limited in time and paid for with application, search, examination,
issue & maintenance fees; for new and useful inventions & designs.
Patents are the result of Allowance of full: National; applications.
pending status is achieved with filing of a full or provisional application but
only full applications are examined and can result in patent while
provisionals: intended to preserve reciprocal filing rights in foreign
countries under the Paris Convention; provide an earlier filing date
in full application for the same invention for up to one year later as:
the law allows one year to file for National patent after a 'public disclosure'
including any offer of sale but foreign filing rights evaporate upon
disclosure unless a 'Provisional Application' was filed before this.
expense is minimized by personally quoting and performing all work including:
searches with 1/3 quoted full search fee advance comprising payment in full if
the invention is found. Full searches minimize subsequent expense in:
examination by the (US Patent) Office whose first duty is to ensure inventions
are not patented twice. Accelerated Examination can be requested
with a full search and backlogs of up to 3 years for 'exam' avoided.
'Allowance' in the first Office action is readily achieved minimizing
the time and expense: otherwise quite often onerous; required of:
prosecution wherein the grounds: predominantly in prior art; of all rejections by
the Office must be 'overcome' through 'Replies' consisting of legal
briefs and, if indicated, amendments most importantly of the claims
which define the intellectual property being sought by the applicant.
confidentiality is guaranteed to all clients as is honesty and integrity in all work.
