Writing your own patent application and pulling your own teeth

October 7, 2004 on 10:23 am | In Independent Inventors |

Bob Shaver at the Patent Pending Blog with a post on “Writing Your Own Patent Application.“  Bob talks about how to, but also cautions that it can be a “big mistake.”

I agree.  I’ve got a number of stories about inventors who wrote their own patent applications and bungled them up really bad (one of which lost all of his rights by filing a Response to a final action via FEDEX). 

You should educate yourself about the patenting process, but realize that there are thousands of rules in the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP), a number of which can nuke your entire patent application and strip you of all of your rights. 

Please, please, please.  Do yourself a favor and consult with a patent attorney or agent.   

I imagine that you can go to Barnes and Noble and pick up a book on “Do It Yourself Dentistry” too…but why risk the pain?

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