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What is a Patent for System and method for facilitating virtual gift giving
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The gift giving industry is an integral aspect of U.S. commerce. In the normal year, there are a variety of occasions that require gifts. These include graduations, birthdays and anniversaries, baptisms, religious observances, holidays and more. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce the holiday season is responsible for more than $500 billion annually. If all holiday gift-giving events are taken into account then the U.S. annual sales of gifts amount to more than one trillion dollars.
Gifts are traditionally given to the recipients by the gift giver. They can be given directly, by regular mail, or via courier. In more recent years, with the rise in popularity of the Internet, gift givers are increasingly purchasing gifts online and having the gifts shipped to the recipient. Another option is to use an uninvolved third person, like an individual shopper to purchase the gift on behalf of the gift giver and then deliver it to the recipient. There are many options to buy gifts and give them to the recipient.
One of the issues with traditional gift giving involves the time gap and location disparity between the purchase of the present and the delivery of the gift to the recipient. In the traditional gift giving process, a person purchases the gift from brick and mortar stores and later physically transports the present for delivery to the gift recipient at a later date. When using the Internet is used to purchase a gift, the gift giver makes the gift from a web site and then a courier company or courier presents the present to the recipient at a later date. The gift’s utility and impact is diminished when there is an interval of time between the purchase date and the delivery time. This could be a problem when the gift is intended to be useful at the time of purchase or designed to be enjoyed or used within a short date of purchase.
What is required is a method and method to improve the existing issues, and more specifically, a speedier and more efficient method to make gift giving easier activities.
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A patent search is the very first step to getting your patent. You can do a google patent search or do a USPTO search. Once the patent application is submitted, the product that is that is covered by the patent application could be described as patent-pending. you can find the patent application on public pair. After the patent office approves your application, you’ll be able to do an examination of the patent number to discover the patent granted. The product you are selling will then be patentable. Alongside the USPTO search engine, you can also utilize other search engines such as espacenet, which is described below. You can get help from a patent lawyer. Patents granted in the United States are granted by the US trademark and patent office, also known as the United States patent office and trademark office. This office also evaluates trademark applications.
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1. Create a list of terms to describe your invention based upon its purpose, composition, and usage.
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- What is the goal of the invention Is it a utilitarian device or an ornamental design?
- Is inventing a method to make something or carry out some function? Or is it a product or procedure?
- What is the composition and function of the invention? What is the physical structure of the invention?
- What’s the point of the invention
- What are technical terms and keywords that describe the characteristics of an invention? To find the correct terms, consult an online dictionary of technical terms.
2. These terms will allow you to find pertinent Cooperative Patent Classifications using the Classification Search Tool. To determine the most suitable classification to your invention, look through the classification’s class Schemes (class schedules). If you don’t get any results from the Classification Text Search, you might consider substituting your words that describe your invention with synonyms.
3. Examine the CPC Classification Definition for the CPC Classification Definition to determine the validity of the CPC classification that you have discovered. If the chosen classification has a blue box with the letter “D” at its left, clicking on the hyperlink will take you to the CPC classification description. CPC classification definitions can help you determine the applicable classification’s scope so that you can select the one that is most appropriate. The definitions could also contain some search tips or other recommendations that can be useful for further research.
4. Retrieve patent documents with the CPC classification from the Patents Full-Text and Image Database. You can look through and narrow down the relevant patent publications focusing first on the abstract and drawings representative of.
5. This list of patent publications is the most appropriate to check for similarities to your idea. Be sure to read the specifications and claims. There are many patents available through contacting the patent examiner and the applicant.
6. You can retrieve published patent applications that meet the CPC classification you selected in Step 3. You can use the same search strategy as in Step 4. You can narrow your results to the most pertinent patent application by looking at the abstract and representative drawings that appear on each page. After that, you must review all published patent applications carefully, paying special attention to the claims, and other drawings.
7. Find other US patents by keyword searching in the AppFT and PatFT databases, classification searching of non-U.S. patents per below, and searching non-patent publications of inventions with internet search engines. For example:
- Add keywords to your search. Keyword searches may turn up documents that are not well-categorized or have missed classifications during Step 2. For example, US patent examiners often supplement their classification searches with keyword searches. Think about the use of technical engineering terminology rather than everyday words.
- Search for foreign patents using the CPC classification. Then, re-run the search using international patent office search engines such as Espacenet, the European Patent Office’s worldwide patent publication database of over 130 million patent publications. Other national databases include:
- European Patent Office (EPO) provides esp@cenet to access a network of Europe’s patent databases with access to machine translation of European patents.
- Japan Patent Office (JPO) – with access to machine translations of Japanese patents.
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) offers PATENTSCOPE with a full-text search of published international patent applications and machine translations for some documents, as well as a list of international patent databases.
- Korean Intellectual Property Rights Information Service (KIPRIS)
- State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) with machine translation of Chinese patents.
- Other International Intellectual Property Offices with online patent databases include Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and Taiwan.
- Search non-patent literature. Inventions can be made public in many non-patent publications. It is recommended that you search journals, books, websites, technical catalogs, conference proceedings, and other print and electronic publications.
To review your search, you can hire a registered patent attorney to assist. A preliminary search will help one better prepare to talk about their invention and other related inventions with a professional patent attorney. In addition, the attorney will not spend too much time or money on patenting basics.