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	Your invention may already be patented. Public users may perform preliminary searches of patent information in a variety of formats including on-line, microfilm, and print at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Public Search Facility located in Alexandria, VA. State of the art computer workstations provide automated searching of patents issued from 1790 to the current week of issue. Full document text may be searched on U.S. patents issued since 1971 and OCR text from 1920 to 1970. U.S. patent images from 1790 to the present may be retrieved for viewing or printing. Some foreign patent documents are available.

If you've always been the creative type who's been inventing during every spare moment, you may still be able to cash in on all your hard work. By filing a patent request with the US Patent Office, you can secure your right to be the only one to make or sell your product. With the help of a patent lawyer in Minnesota, you can file your patent quickly, and file a lawsuit on anyone who attempts to make money off your hard work.

	PATENTS ISSUED TO RESIDENTS OF THE UNITE
	Data includes utility, design, plant, and reissue patents.2 Represents residents of American Samoa, Guam, and miscellaneous U.S. Pacific Islands.3 No state indicated in database. The Number of Patent that was issue during1990--1993. 1990   1991   1992   1993   1,443   1,447   1,631   1,702   Source: USPTO

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While most people confuse patents with trademarks and copyrights, patents apply only to ideas. A patent gives you the right to bar others from making, selling, using or importing your product in the United States. Congress writes the laws related to patents. Currently, patents last 20 years from the date on which the patent was filed. Patent laws only work in the United States.

The U.S. awards three types of patents:

• Utility Patents - for discoveries of new, useful machines, composition of matter or any improvements
• Design Patents - for new designs of an article for manufacture
• Plant Patents - for anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces a new species of plant

Your Minnesota patent attorney can be very helpful during the patent process. The Minnesota patent lawyer can help you conduct a patent search to see if the item your have invented has already been patented by someone else. He can also help you defend your patent against someone who tries to steal your idea.

Hiring a patent lawyer in Minnesota to defend you patent is a very good idea since the government will not help you in this matter.

Minnesota Patent lawyers can be helpful with:

• Searching for a the patent database
• Protecting your patent
• Filing your patent
• Appeals to the Board of Patent Appeals
• Correction of patents
• Extend Patent terms
• Withdraw your patent

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