Andrew W. Ludy

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Home Page.

   • Affordable Patents.

   • What I can do for inventors.

   • What my services include.

2. Table of Contents

3. About - My background in Engineering and Patent Law.

4. The Patent Process.

   • Who can file and prosecute a patent application?

   • Which is best - an attorney or an agent?

   • Invention disclosure.

   • The novelty search.

   • The patent application.

   

5. The Utility Patent.

   • Disclosure.

   • The patentability search.

   • The patent application.

   • Fees and costs

   • The patent drawings.

   • Patent Pending.

   • Confidentiality of disclosures.

   • First Examiner's Action.

   • Publication of application.

   • Second Examiner's Action.

   • Patent approved - Allowance.

   • Maintenance fees.

   • Foreign patents.

6. The Design Patent.

7. The Provisional Patent.

   

8. A Sample Patent - LEVER TOOL HANDLE.

   • Page 1 - Title, Inventor's name, Class & Subclass, References, Abstract, Drawing.

   • Page 2 - Drawing Figs. 1 and 2.

   • Page 3 - Drawing Figs. 3 - 8.

   • Page 4 - Drawing Figs. 9 - 14.

   • Page 5 - Specification: Background and Summary of Invention.

   • Page 6 - Description of the Drawing and the Preferred Embodiments.

   • Page 7 - Detailed description and Claims.

   • Page 8 - Claims (continued).

   • Page 9 - Claims (continued).

9. Pricing and Fees.

   • Agent fees for professional services.

   • Patent Office fees.

   • Link to PTO fee schedule.

10. Terms of Service.

11. Contact & Order.   Contact information - how to reach me.

12. FAQS - Frequently Asked Questions and Answers.

13. Glossary of Patent Terms.

14. Links.

 

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