NICE TO MEET YOU
Welcome! First Inventors LLC is dedicated to providing assistance to both beginning and seasoned inventors.
Our core values are based upon integrity and a deep desire to help others in their individual inventive journey. We are reliable, trustworthy, honest and respectful in our dealings with inventors.
About Our Logo
Our logo depicts four steps of different heights which represent the four steps necessary to achieve patentability for a new invention. The height of each step represents the amount of difficulty in achieving the lawful requirement for the new invention to be granted a patent.
The first step represents the statutory (law) requirement. Does the new invention meet the lawful definition requirement for patentability? This step is the least difficult to meet.
The second step represents the useful requirement and answers the following questions: Is the new invention useful? Does the new invention serve a useful purpose? Does the new invention solve a problem? This step is slightly more difficult to meet than the statutory requirement, hence it is higher than that for the statutory requirement.
The third step represents novelty of the new invention and basically answers the questions: Is the new invention really ‘new’? Does the new invention previously exist? This step is more difficult to achieve than the useful requirement and requires a comparison of previously known similar inventions to differentiate the new invention from the previous inventions (commonly referred to as prior art).
The fourth step is the most difficult to achieve for the beginning and experienced inventors alike and is called the non-obviousness requirement. This requirement requires that the new invention, even though it meets the novelty requirement, be non-obviousness to someone of ordinary skill in the art at the time the new invention is filed with the United States Patent and Trademark office (called the filing date). This is the last step to ensure that the new invention is truly a creation of the human intellect worthy of a patent and represents the “inventive step” which goes beyond just combining elements to form the new invention. There are detailed rationales which the patent office applies to each patent application to determine if the invention as claimed satisfies the non-obviousness requirement.