{"id":1890,"date":"2013-03-18T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2013-03-18T16:00:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T16:00:39","slug":"patent-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/03\/18\/patent-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Patent progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some progress on my <a href=\"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/21\/vanity-patent\/\">vanity patent<\/a>&#8230;  The application was submitted last Friday, though I am not totally clear if this is a provisional patent (sort of like a place holder and only gets you established for priority (if you file the real deal within 18 months)) or the full application.  I am meeting with the lawyer on Wednesday to talk about licensing the idea (yes, it will be a challenge to get backers for what is pretty much just vapor ware, but really, am I going to be taken seriously even with a working prototype?) and will nail down that bit of uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>According to my lawyer my application is still &#8216;secret&#8217; so I can&#8217;t show it to anyone without an NDA.  The application is easy to read, which makes me think it is a provisional one since most patents are so much gibberish and legalese to me.  The drawings (taken for the most part from my stuff) seem to make sense also.  Maybe I am just getting used to reading patents.  I recall the first few I looked at decades ago, they might as well have been in ancient Greek for all the information communicated to me.  <\/p>\n<p>Such a slow process!  I expect that even if I do &#8216;win the lotto&#8217; it will be late summer or fall before I am able to finally focus full-time on the project.  Unlike the real lotto, though, I at least should have some signs that things are moving in a positive, productive manner in the mean time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some progress on my vanity patent&#8230; The application was submitted last Friday, though I am not totally clear if this is a provisional patent (sort of like a place holder and only gets you established for priority (if you file the real deal within 18 months)) or the full application. I am meeting with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/03\/18\/patent-progress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Patent progress&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-originalcontent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}