Musings of a West Texas Business Venture

Patent Attorney

Had a nice discussion yesterday w/ "our" patent attorney (though, I haven't yet paid them a dime) about filing two provisional patents. His name is Mike O' Neil, and I ran into him and one of his assistants (Cynthia Dashiell) at a local trade show in downtown Lubbock several weeks ago. One of the local organizations, LEDA, helps put on the trade show, and also held an open forum on medical devices (which I'm not currently involved in) and IP issues. Although I couldn't stay for the whole forum, it was rather interesting to hear from some of the local medical companies:

• Selenium Ltd (a company funded by Emergent Technologies out of Austin)
  
• Scott Laboratories
  
• Class One Orthodontics
  
• And another company that made ... devices to record pressure from pneumatic baby delivery devices
  

Mike O' Neil needs some more detail from me ... but it looks like we have the beginnings of two complete PPA's, and the likely ending could be as many as four individual patents. Not too shabby. Now, to locate the $5,000 required to get the work done.

posted by Anthony Presley @ 3:03 PM