Monteverde USA Patent on Stylus

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tjseagrove said:
Anyone see where Yafa Pen Company (Montverde USA) has a patent now for a stylus on the top of a pen?

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It is discussed briefly in the August 2012 issue on Pen World Magazine on page 8.

Will it affect any component sets on the market now? Thoughts??

Tom
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Interesting! I will be interested to see where this goes. I do believe that we have not entered the first to file law yet, so maybe someone will fight this if it is an issue?

David
 
Yeesh - they've got nothing going for them but a bunch of mediocre pens (at best) so they're going to do this for attention?
I mean, that's gotta be why right? For attention? Why else would they do this?
 
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Without seeing the actual patent it is impossible to tell exactly what is patented. My perception would be that it would not be very difficult to defeat the patent if they attempted to enforce it. A patent is not automatically enforceable, they can be and have been issued in error. While I was in industry I reviewed proposed patent applications and one of the things we had to be very careful of was "is it something that is obvious to someone well versed in the field?". If the answer was yes, we said don't try for a patent, even if no one else had ever actually done it.

The question would be whether or not it is even a novel idea.

Patents are often used to get cross-licensing agreements with other companies that allow both companies access to the others patents without worrying about having to defend against law suits --- that could be their idea.
 
I will check with him when I talk to him at the DC show. He's had that pen for a while now, before the Chinese kits came out, I tried to buy them components from him when he came out with it, which was no. He is adamant about his patents.
 
penmaker56 said:
I will check with him when I talk to him at the DC show. He's had that pen for a while now, before the Chinese kits came out, I tried to buy them components from him when he came out with it, which was no. He is adamant about his patents.
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If that is the case, I suggest buying as many component kits as one can
 
You ever sign for your credit card receipt with one of those stylus pens...they've been around a long while and it is the same principle, and probably even the same material. It is likely that the only thing he could claim as being novel is coupling the stylus with a writing insturment...sort of like changing the material of an eraser from ordinary rubber to some other rubber material.

My guess is that he didn't patent the stylus itself.
 
Thats crazy to spend that kind of cash for a patent for a couple of radius's in some plastic holding rubber. :eek:

I have a couple of patents, and they arent cheap to do.

A fool and his money. :wink:
 
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jd99 said:
Thats crazy to spend that kind of cash for a patent for a couple of radius's in some plastic holding rubber. :eek:

I have a couple of patents, and they arent cheap to do.

A fool and his money. :wink:
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I think it's a "status" thing. Sort of "This pen uses our own patented ----" sort of deal. The patent becomes the "wow" factor.

Whenever I see patents I am always reminded of something like the can openers that used to have the patent numbers stamped on them -- some of them had as many as three patents and you'd look at them and say what on earth could be patented of this thing - they'd been around for 50 years and the patents are only good for 20 years or less.
 
When I was with the medical r&d company, every product always multiple patents on them. Each application had many claims tied to them, and we always held back claims so that as soon as it appears one application was about to go through, which can take years, the attorneys would file the next set. The real protection was during the pending stages for us. Once granted, all the paperwork becomes searchable through uspto.gov. Having it in pending stage protects some of that from being released to competitors.

The company I was with were true innovators though (CRAZY as all get out, but awfully smart people)... GE would call about once a year to license a process of "fusing" 2 pieces of polycarbonate (Lexan under their tradename) and yet maintain all the original integrity. GE never agreed to the price thinking it would come out of patent protection. They got a bit upset when they found out additional claims were filed that effectively extended the protection period. When I left (many years ago), they were in negotiations again.
 
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