Innovative Licensing & Promotion, Inc. assists inventors
in the patenting and promotion of their new product ideas.


Innovative Licensing & Promotion, Inc.
Canada, US and World Wide Patenting

 

A Patent is a method by which an individual organization can claim exclusive rights to a process, technology or product, for a period of time, by disclosing the information to designated Patent Office(s).

The Various forms of Patent Protection include:

• Provisional Patent Application (Informal Application, United States):
  A temporary, one year, simplified patent application, which allows the applicant to claim a date of filing and patent pending status. This patent application is used when the technology is still under development or in a case where short term funding is a concern. The Provisional Patent Application is in effect for one year from the filing date. A Utility Patent Application (Formal Application) would have to be applied for within the one-year limit or the right to Patent the item would be lost.
   
• Utility Patent Application (Formal Application):
  An application for a 20-year Patent, which protects the function, method or use of an item. This is the most common form of patent protection for technologies, products and methods. Innovative Licensing & Promotion, Inc. normally files the Utility Application in Canada and the United States simultaneously. The applicant then has one year in which to decide upon a PCT (Paris Convention Treaty) Application (see below).
   
• PCT Patent (Paris Convention Treaty) Application:
  A 'world wide' Patent Application which streamlines the process of filing a Patent in up to 128 countries. The PCT Application allows the applicant an additional 18 months (approximately) to decide and prepare for the filing in other countries. Each individual country and the European community have varying costs specific to each filing thereafter. While the PCT patent can be filed instead of a Utility or Provisional Application, it is normally filed within a year after one of these.
   
• Design Patent:
  The Design Patent is specifically for Patent protection on items where the esthetic or ornamental appeal of the item is unique.
   

• Trade Mark:

  Trade Mark is a form of protection that protects a significant name, logo or phrase associated with a product or company. Examples of Trade Marks include: Velcro, Coca-Cola, the Nike 'Swoosh' and any logos or symbols associated with these names. Trade Marking is especially useful to an inventor when a unique name has been invented that represents the product idea well. In this case a Trade Mark can be applied for and the inventor could potentially sell the rights to the name as well as the patent, increasing royalty revenue.
   

• Copyright:

  Copyright protection is probably the least expensive form of Intellectual Property Protection. Copyright protects creative works such as books, poems, paintings, films or anything involving artistic integrity.

 

** All Innovative Licensing & Promotion, Inc. Patents are prepared and filed by Registered Patent Agents with a minimum of 12 years of Patenting experience and engineering knowledge.