Lesson 3.  The Specification.                                     $49.95 

"Why Johnny can't read patents".

"Johnny" can't read patents because patents are a confusing, confounding, contorted, butt-ugly combination of:  normal English, technical English, and Middle English (or thereabout*). 

*From Websters unabridged:      " Thereabout \There"a*bout`\, Thereabouts \There"a*bouts`\, adv.
   [The latter spelling is less proper, but more commonly used.]    2. Near that number, degree, or quantity,     What will ye dine? I will go thereabout. --Chaucer."..........
 

Reading patents is like doing anything else, it just takes practice.  We walk and talk you through a total of twelve patents beginning with Lesson 1 through this lesson.  We use a text book, a separate drawing book and an audio cd to methodically work our way through them.  You'll see. 

In addition to the above mentioned patents we'll also work our way through 20 patent abstracts and their respective drawing(s).

"A writer is a reader moved to emulation."  Saul Bellow

"Good writers emulate, great writers steal."  patentlessons.com  We stole this from Hemingway, he stole it from T.S. Elliot who stole it from Picasso.   

Once you're able to read 10 patents that cover various and important aspects of your invention you should be able to put together a very strong application based to an large extent on the work of others.  No part of any patent is protected by copyright.  Well almost none.  Some patents contain copyrighted software (I've never seen one) so, just be on the lookout for such a reference:  © or otherwise stated.  Even though I've never done it, you could probably lift whole paragraphs.  The USPTO say that patents are part of the public domain and as such are not restricted by copyright.  Sounds good to me.

By the time you get to this lesson you will have read 9 patents.  In this lesson we'll read 3 more.  You'll be given writing assignments and a test in which you'll fill in the blanks for sentences leaving out key words. 

As an additional writing assignment you may want to start on your own patent application.   If you like we'll sign a non disclosure agreement and help you with it at no extra charge.  Register soon as this lagniappe (good Cajun word) will probably not last long.

  Brunelleschi's crane                             Filippo Brunelleschi                                  Brunelleschi's 2nd patent

   Brunelleschi's beautiful Dome and cupola holding up well in Florence, Italy.

      "The Duomo, as seen from the Belvedere"  Hannibal Lecter

     Filippo Brunelleschi* was trained as a goldsmith, had little formal education but like so many others before and since, didn't let that slow him down.  He was a painter, a sculptor, a mechanical genus and at the age of 40 became an architect.  He also was an inventor.  His first invention sank, a boat he invented for shipping marble went to the bottom of the river.  His second for a crane made him rich.  Oh yeah, one other thing, Filippo Brunelleschi invented the patent process and he was not a lawyer.  He wrote his own patents and so can you.  

 So not only did Filippo Brunelleschi design and build this structure he also designed and built the crane that hauled everything skyward plus he "invented" and wrote the patent for the crane.      *(brew nel es' key)

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