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Buying a Bar Date from Your Prototype Vendor

Your client has an invention. He tells you he came up with the invention 18 months ago and that he hasn't offered the invention for sale and hasn't publicly disclosed it. He's meeting with you today because he has evaluated his prototype and finally decided to direct financial resources toward obtaining a patent. He asks you to prepare a patent application. Everything seems fine, right? Maybe not. A bar date might have been purchased along with the prototype.

20 minute read October 08, 2004 at 03:12 PM
By
Guillermo E. Baeza And Monica B. Lateef
Buying a Bar Date from Your Prototype Vendor

Your client has an invention. He tells you he came up with the invention 18 months ago and that he hasn't offered the invention for sale and hasn't publicly disclosed it.

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