I recently received an excellent comment about invention prototyping from one of our readers, Brian Wilkes. It is such a smart idea, I thought I’d pass it along in addition to the other posts regarding prototyping inventions. Here is Brian’s information: Eric, I will reiterate what I have read from some of the rest of [...]
You can, indeed, patent a new use for an existing invention. For instance, about 10 years ago, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals allowed a patent on an invention that used “Bag Balm” (a medicinal treatment for irritated cow udders) to treat male baldness. And there are many other instances of these sorts of “new [...]
The answer is YES — you can patent a board game. Filing a patent application on a board game is a great step prior to contacting a game board manufacturer. That will give you a degree of intellectual property (IP) rights that you wouldn’t have if you simply contacted a manufacturer out of the blue. [...]
