Key Topics of The Patents Video

Companies are licensing, selling, joint venturing and trading intellectual property around the world.

The challenge is to find what intellectual property you have, protect it and commercialize it. The Patents Video will help you evaluate your intellectual property and remember steps you can take to protect it.

The world of patents is filed with pitfalls and booby traps that frequently trip up unsuspecting inventors and business people. The Patents Video teaches where these traps lie and gives its viewers knowledge essential for securing proprietary rights to inventions.

Using dramatic vignettes, entertaining scenarios, humor and the expert advice of Intellectual Property Attorney, Paula N. Chavez, The Patents Video explains the most commonly misunderstood concepts and the most critical information about patents including:

• U.S. and foreign filing rights
• Bar Date triggers including issues of publication, offers to sell and public disclosure
• Prior art
• When an idea is patentable
• And much more ...

The Patents Video tells the story of Mr. Og's and Ms. Thak's trip to meet with a patent attorney. Mr. Og has invented the wheel, a device which will revolutionize civilization, and he wants patent protection. Mr. Og and Ms. Thak make the long trip with their wheel from the Outerlands to Downtown. During their meeting, Mr. Og and Ms. Thak learn that they have lost many of their foreign filing rights just by pushing their wheel into town! They also learn they now have less than a year to file their U.S. patent application. The patent attorney also explains other essential patent topics, chosen because they are the most commonly misunderstood concepts and the most critical information about patents.