Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Immaturity Tuesday



The Abstract says it all, I think.
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9 comments:

dildofuc said...

YOU GUYS ARE ALL DORKS!

Oh wait. Oops, wrong post.

(Sorry, but I had to get in my bit of flaming too...hook line and sinker lol.)

Now, on to the discussion at hand:

Beavis to Butthead: "Heh heh, heh heh heh!"

Butthead to Beavis: "Huh huh, huhuh huh...he said 'cock'".

7:22 PM
Chaon said...

And "ball". Heh heh heh heh.

9:06 AM
Robin said...

Confess, Karl, you wrote that translation for the app, didn't you?

10:26 AM
Chaon said...

I wish I got to write about such interesting subjects, where "the aesthetic appearance of the cock" would be a factor in favor of patentability.

10:34 AM
Robin said...

Off topic, but you gotta see this Karl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjYv2YW6azE

7:51 AM
dildofuc said...

k,

what if I had the nicest "tool" in the land and I wanted to register it so no one else would copy it or try to use it as their own?

would you let a lawyer in Taiwan handle this, or is better (ie - cheaper) to let an an American lawyer handle my tool?

12:12 AM
Chaon said...

I assume you are talking about a utility patent? If it is a design patent or a trademark, you can do it yourself or use a local firm.

It is much more expensive to have an American attorney draft and file your patent application. Usually what people in Taiwan do is use a local 'patent agent', where there is an attorney in the firm but the people working on your application are not lawyers. They will then send the application to a U.S. attorney with whom they cooperate, and he/she will review it and file it with the USPTO.

The problem with this approach is that the local agents are notoriously slack on prior art searches, and they will hardly ever tell a client "your tool is not patentable". So you spend the time and money only to learn from the USPTO that your invention has been anticipated by a bunch of other stuff. If I were giving legal advice, which I am absolutely not doing right now, I would suggest having a specialized search company do the search for you, then take their results to a local patent agent.

3:30 PM
Bread said...

dude, you are getting like bigel over here.

1:59 PM
Anonymous said...

hey, thanks for the info! Since Taiwan isn't part of the Madrid Agreement, I think our German office is going to handle all of the trademark stuff. Thank heavens, because it sounds like a sh*tload of work.

Since I'm still in the immaturity post, I feel that I'm allowed to post this little stocking stuffer.

Damn good idea. Too bad I didn't have the patent on that one.

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1:46 AM

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