Reply To: Patents and licensing

Zxcvb1234, Thanks for the info. It is the non-obvious rule that is getting me worried and confused. On one hand my device is not a new device. It is one that people use all the time. Yet it has a major annoying flaw that people complain about all the time. I have a way to fix it. Yet it is not a high tech concept. Just a simple straightforward modification of the way these devices are made. Anybody seeing it would say, wow that is so simple, what is the big chiddush? Yet, I have looked at tons of these devices by many manufacturers, and none use this idea.

Some have other possible solutions to the flaw, which I believe are not as good or as reliable. None solve the problem the way I propose, but again, it is not major rocket science. So I am not sure what determines “non-obvious”. On one hand, if it was obvious, then why aren’t the millions of current models out there using this idea, and instead are being built the old way with the flaw? But on the other hand, the idea itself seems so simple, that a child could have thought of it.

I guess I will have to hire a knowledgeable attorney.

How is an agent different than an attorney?