Saturday, June 13, 2009  What Do Patent Attorneys Really Do?  My
clients often wonder why they need a patent attorney? Many of
them do a great job of documenting their inventions in writing,
handing me 10-20 pages of written technical explanation complete
with drawings. Why, they ask, do I insist on putting the
invention description in a certain order, focusing on certain
technical issues while ignoring their “big-picture” marketing
verbiage, using certain buzz words like incantations, and
keeping the drafting of patent claims off-limits to them? It is
difficult to explain to each client while in the drafting
process why patent attorneys do things in their mysterious ways.
So as a general overview for technology developers, I will
attempt to explain some of this mystery in layperson’s terms.  A
Patent Is An Integrated Legal Document This means that the
patent document by itself must provide a complete explanation of
the invention you are attempting to patent. It is also the
document that establishes to the pu