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Our patent firm has over 10 years of experience teaching, claiming and prosecuting many business method patent applications. As such, we have honed our best practices in furtherance our client's business goals to obtain meaningful business method protection. And our fixed-fee pricing enables our clients to have a known budget for their intellectual property protection.
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Business method protection is typically our client's broadest form of protection!
For most of our typical clients - primarily small and medium sized businesses - business method protection is far and away the broadest form of IP protection available whether they are bringing technology directly into the marketplace or pursuing licensing income. Broader protection equates to more "bang for your buck" in that if you own the way of making money in your chosen niche, then you are still in the game when a competitor makes a commercially significant improvement to your widget-type technology.
Samples of our Work
Samples of applications/publications, written by our firm, in various areas, are provided below. Additional work samples are here for your review.
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Exterior lighting systems (PDF  , Text Only, Figure 1)
Several matching exterior lighting systems for use on property having electrical service wiring. Lighting fixtures are made of pipe or wood, preferably PVC pipe or redwood. Several embodiments can be installed directly in the ground, while other embodiments can be installed on the vertical exterior surface of a building, or on the top of a wall. In all embodiments, the lamp and electrical connections are housed within the same enclosure, and no separate electrical box is needed. The embodiments made of pipe are coated with stucco, brick, stone, tile, wood, aluminum sheet, or copper sheet, to protect the pipe from environmental degradation. The preferred coating is stucco, and the invention includes a new method of applying stucco to a circular cylinder and manufacturing an article. All embodiments have elongated rectangular windows parallel both to the florescent light bulb, and to the axis of the cylinder, with translucent lenses to allow light to escape. The circular embodiments each have a single lens that covers all of the windows. In several embodiments, the florescent light and light bulbs can be accessed by removing the top of the light and lifting out the lamp which is hung from the top.
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System for one-touch bible book selection and viewing (PDF , Text Only, Figure 1)
A hand-held system for user selection and display of electronically stored Biblical information. More specifically, a portable electronic bible system having a Bible book selection keypad with dedicated Bible book keys to provide one-touch Bible book selection and viewing. The system comprises additional keys for selection of a desired chapter and verse. Biblical and menu information is viewed on an LCD display. The system is battery powered with an optional A/C adapter. A data transfer port allows supplemental Biblical information to be transferred and stored in the memory of the system. System components are contained in a two-part hinged housing. A method of use and methods of acquiring supplemental Biblical information are also described.
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System for holding an indwelling catheter (PDF , Text Only, Figure 1)
A system for holding an indwelling catheter above the heart of a patient wearing one. When a patient has a central line placed, the catheter is sutured into the patient's chest and the external portion of the catheter, the portion that remains outside the patient's body, must be carefully protected and kept sterile; and it must also be carefully held above the level of the patient's heart and the insertion point of the catheter so that the patient's blood does not flow back into the catheter, potentially causing life-threatening clotting or infection. A sterilizable, disposable hanger, which is connectable to the port end (the external end) of the catheter, can be suspended from a necklace or neck cord by passing the neck cord through apertures in the hanger. This system allows a patient to hang the catheter from a neck cord. Using the hanger frees patients from using tape on their skin or pins in their clothing to hold their catheter in place.
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Interactive Internet Shopping and Data Integration Method and System (PDF , Text Only, Figure 1)
A method and system for interactively shopping for groceries, especially on an Internet web site, where the user may create a shopping list, shop for items from the list at a selected grocery store, arrange for pick up or delivery of the selected items, and provide payment. A user may also download a created shopping list to a handheld computing device (e.g., PDA) or print the list with reference to the layout of a particular grocery store. Users are required to register and provide specific demographic information (useful to manufacturers and stores) to be eligible to receive the benefits of use of the web site, such as menu creation, coupon downloads, menu planning, and recipe input. Shopping lists may be created from a single input screen using standard language text. Products may be automatically suggested to the user based on best regular price or retailer's specials. Recipes may be altered to meet numbers of servings or to comply with dietary requirements.
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