Patents

To fully protect a product apply for a Federal patent.

You’ve invested time, talent, and energy into developing a winning invention. Now it’s time to make sure it’s protected. Whether you’re looking to file a Provisional Application for Patent, Utility Patent, or Design Patent, Millennium can help. Best of all, filing a patent application through Millennium is easy and inexpensive. Just answer a few questions online and we’ll take care of the rest.

Filing a Provisional Application for Patent is one of the fastest, easiest ways to start protecting your invention. You’ll receive an immediate priority filing date from the US Patent and Trademark Office and enjoy the immediate right to label your invention “patent pending.” Provisional Application for Patent: The review process for a utility patent typically takes up to 3 years, or even more. But to help inventors begin protecting their inventions sooner, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) offers a faster, more affordable option called a Provisional Application for Patent.

Conducting a patent search is a smart first step before investing a lot of time and money into the patent process. Not only will you know if there are any similar patents in the “prior art,” you’ll be able to use the results to better define your invention.

A Provisional Application grants you an immediate priority filing date. Once your Provisional Application is received by the USPTO, you have the right to label your invention “patent pending” for 12 months. Most importantly, you can later (within 12 months) file a Non-Provisional Utility Patent Application that claims your original priority filing date (the date that the USPTO received your Provisional Application for Patent).

Design Patents: As the name suggests, design patents protect purely artistic or ornamental designs of and for manufactured items. These are designs that do not affect the function of the manufactured item. Examples include an ornamental face plate for a watch or unique design for an office chair.

We can help create and protect your intellectual property ideas by filing a Patent Application with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office

A patent is an intellectual property right granted by the Government of the United States of America to an inventor “to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United States” for a limited time in exchange for public disclosure of the invention when the patent is granted.

There are three types of patents. Utility patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof. Here is the process for obtaining a utility patent. Design patents may be granted to anyone who invents a new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture. Plant patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant.

Professional Patent Drawings for your Application Millennium’s experienced illustrators can create professional patent illustrations of your invention. High-quality illustrations help the USPTO better understand your invention.

Our professional team prepares & reviews your application and can quickly file your completed registration package with the U.S. Patent Office, Washington D.C. Of course, it’s necessary to research the mark comprehensively prior to filing to ensure that there is no possibility of infringing upon another party. After research, We can submit all required forms, deposits and fees and communicate directly with the U.S. Patent Office for you.

Call us for a detailed, in depth, FREE review of your Patent Request – and FREE written report weighted towards your needs, constraints and future plans. We’ll determine a concise plan of action and explain why and when each step should be undertaken to conserve your marks and conserve your cash. The more marks you have, the greater discount you’ll be offered! Call us today!

Millennium Patent analysis benefits our clients in two ways: (1) it allows us to break the traditional Federal and State Trademark and Common Law Research (first use) searches for a Step-By-Step approach AND (2) you will not need to take your research to an attorney for review. Exact conflicts are simple to find. Less expensive preliminary searches are good at finding conflicts. Strong similarities however, based on similarity of sound, appearance and meaning are much more difficult to uncover. Strong similarities are very easy to either over react or under react to. The predominance of our client’s patent and trade name searches are legally blocked at the strong similarity level, not by conflicts. Research experts at Millennium are trained to conduct and analyze each search. Low Cost analysis is the main reason you should use Millennium for all of your comprehensive research needs. The Research Analysis is not included as a feature of our Value Package.

Our Comprehensive legal research starts with the researching of billions of patent and name records to find those that may legally affect your intended commercial use. Direct conflicts or merely uses which are merely similar in Sound, Appearance or Meaning are fully analyzed by our expert staff. Analysis by experienced research specialists will save you time and money in finding a legally clear name. Our free analysis benefit alone may save you hundreds of dollars in unnecessary search fees and trademark attorney time.

Millennium comprehensively examines the USPTO filings and record (2 million marks) International patents (10 million marks in 50 Countries) as well as Common-Law “first use” (13 million marks) in up to 6500 paid research databases!

Our philosophy is to meet the needs of our clients. This includes expert consultations, comprehensive research and expert analysis of complex patents to determine uniqueness. If a patent attorney is needed, we provide a free referral. Millennium follows through with preparing AND filing Patent applications for the USPTO and Canada. We will also prepare applications for international States. We strive to make the process as simple as possible for all our clients. Our goal is to carry our clients through their entire trade name clearance and trademarking process! Millennium has conducted over 40,000 patent searches since 1992! We work on the top fee-based information providers of LEXIS-NEXIS and DIALOG. To research the availability of any given trade name, we often search thousands of databases to produce a comprehensive search. Our skill in conducting thousands of legal searches is the main reason many Patent attorneys hire us to conduct their clients’ product, design and patent searches.

Millennium has always offered its clients more than a comprehensive trademark search. We pride ourselves in our free consultations, free analysis of our research reports and patent application preparations. The main reason we do not charge as much as attorneys is because the bulk of our work is completed by our highly trained staff – not patent attorneys. We pass this savings to you!

Let Millennium protect your invention you worked so hard to create. Contact us now for a free consultation! For more information, Call 1-800-791-6962 or email us: info@millennium-mgt.net