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Each year thousands of new consumer products are offered in the marketplace, many of them developed by individual inventors. They generally include mechanical and electrical components which most often require the expertise and experience of a patent attorney to ensure sound design and protection. A commercially successful product must be more than just a great idea, it must be well designed. Its design should minimize manufacturing costs, be eye-catching and functional, and operate to maximize durability. Patent Attorney P. Jeff Martin can assist clients in securing IP services in an extensive range of consumer products.

Generally, patent searches are performed to investigate the patentability of the inventor’s invention, relative to the records available at the USPTO.

The search is conducted concerning the functional and design features of inventor’s invention, including identifying and searching the proper patent classification and subclasses. The patentability search should focus on the patents that are most relevant to inventor’s innovation and expanded outwards in class and backwards in time.

Patent searches conducted by The Law Firm of P. Jeffrey Martin, LLC are not a CD-Rom or an Internet search, but rather, a professional patentability search which includes an analysis of cited patents and an Opinion of Patentability by a Registered Patent Attorney. Any Patent Search without an opinion and a signature is worthless.

Importantly, incomplete or cursory patent searches can provide inaccurate results resulting in non-patentable subject matter and possibly patent infringement. Many invention promotion companies fail to conduct complete searches, i.e., identifying and searching the proper patent classification and subclasses.

A patent search should be performed before considering the filing of a patent application.

As website and software companies grow, their need to gain property rights over these advances correspondingly grows. The Law Firm of P. Jeffrey Martin, LLC can assist clients in securing IP services in a broad range of software technology including:

• Electronic Data Interchange
• Computer Telephony
• Software Implemented Processes
• Business Methods Developed and Implemented by an E-Business
• Web-Based operations, including those directed to Order Processing, Web Site Interfaces,
  Financial Management and Transactions
• Software Development Adapted to Improve Information Retrieval
• Access to Information Improvements
• Communication and Data Exchange Improvements
• Digital Rights Management
• Digital Content Development

Contact The Law Firm of P. Jeffrey Martin, LLC in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to schedule a free initial consultation.

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The Law Firm of P. Jeffrey Martin, LLC can assist clients in securing IP service concerning E-business, Information Technology, E-Commerce, and the Electronics industry. These technologies include:

• Software Implemented Processes
• Business Methods Developed and Implemented by an E-Business
• Web-Based operations, including those directed to Order Processing, Web Site Interfaces,
  Financial Management and Transactions
• Software Development Adapted to Improve Information Retrieval
• Access to Information Improvements
• Communication and Data Exchange Improvements
• Digital Rights Management
• Digital Content Development
• Voice and Data Transmission, Communication, and Switching
• Electro-Mechanical Control System Designs
• Electronic Appliances and Consumer Goods
• Remote Sensor and Communication Systems and Devices
• Remote Optical Sensors and Signal Transmission

In recent years, biotechnology research has undergone astounding growth. This growth has been attributed to many factors, among others, animal cloning, the human genome project, and pharmaceutical research and development. As a result of urgency to gain property rights over these advances, the biotechnology field has seen extraordinary growth in the number of biotechnology patents that have been filed at the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO).

Biotechnological inventions may include microbes, cell lines, tissue generation, antibody production, proteins, nucleic acids, microorganisms and transgenic multi-cellular organisms.

Biotechnological inventions possess properties that pose unique challenges to the patent system. For an invention to be patentable, it must be (1) patentable subject matter, (2) useful, (3) novel, (4) non-obvious, and (5) sufficiently enabled and described. In order to be patentable, an invention must be useful. Although this requirement does not require an invention to be commercially useful, the invention must be of some measurable benefit. Often, the written description and enablement requirements will sufficiently disclose an invention’s usefulness, however, a “practical utility” is not always evident in a biotechnology invention. A biotechnology invention must be developed and refined to a degree facilitating the existence of a specific benefit.

Courts have applied a more stringent test for “usefulness” in biotechnology patents, thus requiring such patent to have “practical utility.” Applying this requirement, during prosecution, USPTO examiners have rejected biotechnology patents failing to disclose a therapeutic value.

Of further particular relevance to the prosecution of biotechnology patents is the predictability of the relevant art. The USPTO and Federal Circuit subject biotechnology to a heightened standard of “enablement” due to the unpredictability of this art. Practicing a biotechnology invention may present greater difficulties than other, more mechanical arts, because the subject matter is significantly more inexact. Therefore, as a prerequisite to patenting a biotechnology invention, the Federal Circuit has generally required very precise enabling disclosures.

Moreover, the Federal Circuit has generally required a heightened written description requirement as well in view of the unpredictability of biotechnology.

The Law Firm of P. Jeffrey Martin, LLC can assist clients in securing IP services for biomedical devices utilized in the practice of medicine or medical treatment. These devices include:

• Orthopedic Devices
• Endotracheal Tubes
• Drug Delivery Systems
• Surface Coatings for Bio-Hardware and Prosthetic Devices
• Antibiotic and Antibacterial Compositions and Delivery Methods
• Bacteriocidal Coatings for Biomedical Devices
• Therapeutic Rehabilitative Devices
• Cosmetic Enhancement Devices
• Pulmonary/Nasal Delivery Devices
• Novel Syringe Kits
• Hemostatic Agents
• Topical Drug Delivery Systems

Attorney P. Jeff Martin has the expertise to assist clients with securing, protecting, and managing intellectual property as well as in licensing and other business transactions in numerous scientific fields. Attorney Martin has represented research, technology and development clients in the organization and operation of their companies, as well as in the protection and commercial applications of their technologies.

Attorney P. Jeff Martin is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, and prior to the practice of patent law, was employed for several years as a lab analyst for a pharmaceutical testing and developmental company. From identification of patentable subject matter, through application and prosecution, to enforcement and comprehensive business support for a broad spectrum of small and large entity clients, Attorney P. Jeff Martin has represented a much diversified collection of innovations and products. By education and experience, Attorney Martin is equipped to handle technologies in virtually every industry including consumer products, mechanical, chemical, and pharmaceutical as well as in emerging areas such as biotechnology, drug delivery systems, medical devices and electronics.

Attorney P. Jeff Martin can provide legal assistance in the following patent-related matters and fields:

Mechanical, Design and Consumer Products – The firm provides patent and other IP-related services to clients who produce a variety of consumer products.

Chemical/Pharmaceutical – Assisting research, technology, and development clients with securing, protecting, and managing intellectual property; licensing; assignments; and other business transactions in the chemical and pharmaceutical fields.

Medical Devices – The firm provides IP services to clients for biomedical devices, such as drug delivery systems, orthopedic devices, hemostatic agents, and cosmetic enhancement devices, utilized in the practice of medicine or medical treatment.

Biotechnology – Biotechnological inventions may include tissue generation, cell lines, microbes, antibody production, nucleic acids, proteins, microorganisms and transgenic multi-cellular organisms.

Communications and Electronics – The firm provides intellectual property service to clients possessing innovations in E-business, Information Technology, E-Commerce, and the Electronics industry.

Internet, Software, and Business Methods – As website and software companies grow, their need to gain property rights over these advances grows correspondingly. The firm provides intellectual property services to clients in a broad range of software technology.

Patent Searches
Generally, patent searches are performed to investigate the patentability of the inventor’s invention, relative to the records available at the USPTO.

The search is conducted concerning the functional and design features of inventor’s invention, including identifying and searching the proper patent classification and subclasses. The patentability search should focus on the patents that are most relevant to inventor’s innovation and expanded outwards in class and backwards in time.

Patent searches conducted by The Law Firm of P. Jeffrey Martin, LLC are not a CD-Rom or an Internet search, but rather, a professional patentability search which includes an analysis of cited patents and an Opinion of Patentability by a Registered Patent Attorney. Any Patent Search without an opinion and a signature is worthless.

Importantly, incomplete or cursory patent searches can provide inaccurate results resulting in non-patentable subject matter and possibly patent infringement. Many invention promotion companies fail to conduct complete searches, i.e., identifying and searching the proper patent classification and subclasses.

A patent search should be performed before considering the filing of a patent application.

Call 843-280-2400 or e-mail Registered Patent Attorney P. Jeff Martin directly to schedule a free initial consultation concerning patent searches, patent application filings, and how to acquire patent-pending status.