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May of 2004, after the patent was issued I entered into a contract with the Invention Submission Corporation (who I might add are currently no longer in business.) The contract was good for a period of one year and I gave them the exclusive right to license the patent to formula companies which they failed to do. In that year, all they did was pretend to market the Ready Made Bottle under the name "Clean And Easy Baby Bottles." As a result, in 2005 the Invention Submission Corporation was forced out of business and my contract with them was ended.

July of 2005, I liquidated my businesses and set out to find Venture Capitol money to begin manufacturing the product under the name Ready Made Disposable Baby Bottles. I had read in a inventors' magazine that it is a good idea to issue as many patents on your product as possible. I went to a local patent attorney to have my Utility Patent reviewed and applied for another Utility Patent specifying that this new bottle would be used for new born animals.

The Patent Attorney told me that patents are like a picket fence, the first one you issue is the fence that surrounds your idea and all others you issue fill in the gaps. The purpose of issuing multiple patents for the same product is to establish the original idea as being yours. He told me that if I ever had to go to court to prove the ownership of the product in an infringement case the extra patent would greatly support the proof of original ownership.

Infringement In the United States patent infringement is a very serious matter. The courts in the past 5 years have been siding with the original patent owner. This is a good thing because I own the only patent ever issued in the United States for a baby bottle of this type. Now having an United States Utility Patent and 3 on the way (Patents Pending) I feel very secure that my idea will have little chance of infringement.

Infringement is very unlikely The cost of setting up a factory to produce a Ready Made Bottle is about ten million dollars. The rules of infringement state, the patent owner is entitled to all the inventory, machinery, supplies, realestate and profits that are owned or generated by the infringer.

Secondly, all baby products are regulated by the FDA which means you have to use a separate company that is FDA certified to fill the bottle or be a certified FDA food manufacturer. Any FDA certified company would require proof of product ownership or a licensing agreement with the patent owner to produce the bottle.

Thirdly, no venture capitalist, bank or lender would lend anyone that amount of money without proof of patent ownership or licensing agreement. These factors are convincing enough for the average company with the capacity and insight to produce the Ready Made Bottle to stay away from the infringement.

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