One Simple Idea, Revised and Expanded Edition: Turn Your Dreams into a Licensing Goldmine While Letting Others Do the Work, 2nd Edition

The Smart Way to Safeguard Your Idea

NOW, IT’S important for me to start this conversation about protecting your invention by saying this. If you live outside the United States, you must check on the patent, provisional patent, and intellectual property laws in your country.

When President Obama signed the America Invents Act (AIA) into law on September 16, 2011, the United States joined most of the rest of the world in becoming a “first-to-file” country. What that means is that entitlement to a patent is awarded based on the date of the application, regardless of the date of the actual invention. The new system became effective March 2013, so ...