Patents

There are three different types of patents issued in the United States and they are Design, Plant and a Utility Patents.

Design Patent is a patent is generally attached to a Utility Patent and covers a particular design that is added to an invention. For example: if I wanted to put a handle on the Ready Made Bottle I could issue a Design Patent for the handle and use it for the Ready Made Bottle as an addition to the Utility Patent.

Plant Patents allow growers to patent hybrid plants so that no one can reproduce it without paying the patent owner royalties.

Utility Patent which is the type of patent that Ready Made Bottles has is considered the strongest type of patent. It covers the concept or purpose of the idea patented. For example: Ready Made is a disposable, single use recyclable baby bottle. The Utility Patent covers the concept of those claims and no other invention can be a disposable, single use, recyclable baby bottle without infringing on our patent.

Click here to see the Ready Made Utility Patent

Utility Patents have a twenty year life span. However, the USPTO will not issue another patent for the same purpose once a patent has expired. The idea is the original patented holder has twenty years to "Brand" the marketplace.

Branding; a good example would be the Coke product. The name "Coke" has caused this product to become a common household name. All of us know we can buy soda under a generic name "Jiffy Pop," but let's face it; the competitors do not even come close to the original name Coke! Thus, Coke has been branded in the market place.

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