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WORKING PROCEDURES AND COSTS
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Preliminary Considerations
Because WYBROW INNOVATIONS develops ideas/inventions, as well as providing
other services for inventors, a signed Confidentiality Undertaking will
be supplied so that details can be provided by the inventor, in confidence.
An
initial critical appraisal of the idea or invention can then be provided,
and/or a patent application can be prepared, based on the information
supplied by the inventor, or based on this, plus the results of further
careful research and development by WYBROW INNOVATIONS.
Methodology
WYBROW INNOVATIONS does not just prepare and file patent specifications,
but also develops ideas/inventions, and we can protect the developed
idea/invention by means of further filed patent specifications.
A common scenario
is thus to file a first patent application for the inventor,
in order to establish a priority date, and to file improvement
patent applications (which each contain everything that was in
the previous patent application(s), plus the new material) during the
following 12 months, measured from the priority date. The priority
date can then be called upon, when filing the definitive patent
application (i.e. the most recent improvement patent application)
and the Patent Office can be requested to do the equivalent of "threading
together" all of the previously filed patent applications, so
that they are officially recognised for the purpose of establishing
a "date stamp" on them, when being compared with existing
prior art during the Examination Phase of the prosecution of the case
towards grant.
Charging
Services
rendered, are charged for, flexibly, so that work can be carried
out on either a "Time" or a "Task" basis, or a mixture
of the two.
There
are no "up-front fees" per se, but if the inventor wishes
to obtain a more cost-effective service, by paying "up-front",
quotations can be supplied.
There
is no obligation to pay anything until the inventor understands what
is being provided for the charges to be made, and when a project is
under way, there is a possibility that some of the payment for the
work to be carried out can be traded for a share of future net royalties;
but there is no obligation for this. No claims are made for anything
which cannot be achieved.
The
following services are available:
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Instant feedback
on your invention over the telephone. |
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Feedback via
a face-to-face appraisal at your premises. |
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Provision of
a written appraisal on the idea/invention sent by Royal Mail Special
Delivery. |
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Preparation
and filing of a patent application describing the idea/invention. |
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Graphic Design,
Development, Prototyping, and Commercial Liaison. |
| Further
details of our services can be provided by telephone, e-mail,
or post. |
© Dr
Brian R. A. Wybrow CSci, C.CHEM, MRSC; Ph.D. (Lond.)
Member of the Institute of Patentees and Inventors
Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining
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