Most of the Firm's attorneys have degrees in scientific or engineering specialties and approximately one-third of the Firm's practice is directed toward obtaining international patent and trademark protection. The firm maintains the expertise and experience to provide our clients with the highest quality of service in the complex, complicated and challenging field of obtaining intellectual property protection. If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. Here is the new web page focussed on intellectual property matters. In the United States an inventor has a one year grace period from the date of first public use, sale, knowledge or offer to sell to file a patent application.
Most foreign countries have no grace period at all.