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		<title>Design Patents: The Under Utilized and Overlooked Patent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gene Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the chart below demonstrates, design patent applications have been on the rise since 1975, but still in fiscal year 2011 there were just over 30,000 design patent applications filed.  That strikes me as an extraordinarily low number given the number of inventions that could potentially receive a design patent.  Design patents must be considered by all inventors because of the backlog at the United States Patent and Trademark Office.  It can take 3 or more years, sometimes substantially longer, to obtain a patent.  By contrast a design patent can in many instances be awarded in as few as 6 to 8 months.  Some patent is better than no patent, so inventors with a gadget or device should ordinarily be seeking design patents as well as utility patents for that reason alone.]]></description>
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		<title>Declaration of Independence Patents</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gene Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the day we celebrate our Independence some 233 years ago.  What better time to take a look and see what patents exist with an Independence theme.  It would seem that in preparation for the Centennial celebration there were a number of individuals who were quite interested in obtaining design patents.  The one below [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First Design Patent</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gene Quinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that the first design patent issued in the United States was issued on November 9, 1842, to George Bruce of New York? The USPTO searchable online database does not have a text copy of this patent available, undoubtedly because the design patent was handwritten. It is, however, possible to obtain an image [...]]]></description>
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