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Recent content by Gregory Carson

  1. Gregory Carson

    Self-Promotion: Post Your Offer, Products, or Services! (2024)

    MARKETPLACE 
    We help inventors and entrepreneurs from all over the world with intellectual property claiming and registration. We focus on patent applications for new inventions. We also help with trademark registration applications, and copyright registrations. I am a USPTO registered patent attorney. If...
  2. Gregory Carson

    I have an Idea I want to create

    QUESTION 
    If the invention is patentable, you do not need it to be prototyped or working to apply for patent protection. To write a patent application you only have to describe how to make and use it so that a person skilled in the art (someone who would normally be maker/manufacturer) can actually make...
  3. Gregory Carson

    You're from where??

    HOT! INTRO 
    Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA
  4. Gregory Carson

    Is having a robot read TMF on a YouTube video legal?

    As an intellectual property attorney, I am a patent attorney, I would argue the phrase "no copyright infringement intended" is in effect a declaration that copyright infringement is about to happen. In fact, under the law, infringement can even be unintentional. I wrote an article What does...
  5. Gregory Carson

    Best Resources For Coding?

    QUESTION 
    If you are after actually learning to code ... meaning you use a compiler to produce executables ... be sure to start with an actual programming language. 40+ years ago I started with Fortran and Cobol. Today us older code cutters would say start with something widely used and available like C...
  6. Gregory Carson

    First Prototype built!

    EXECUTION 
    Congratulations on your invention. Don't forget to use a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) when you discuss your invention with anyone who is not a patent attorney or patent agent. We have several free sample NDA's on our ... Non-Disclosure Agreements | 3 Kinds Free | Expert Custom ... page if you...
  7. Gregory Carson

    App-idea but 0 skills

    IDEA EXECUTION SAAS / APPS 
    You can use a non-disclosure agreement with your developers. A non-disclosure agreement, or an “NDA,” is a contracted agreement between private parties that certain information will remain confidential. NDA’s status as contracted agreements means that they are enforceable by law. We recently...
  8. Gregory Carson

    How do I get from just my idea to a built company?

    EXECUTION QUESTION 
    I can advise anyone starting a new brand to always search for others using the name, slogan, etc. in the USPTO’s Trademark Electronic Search System, or TESS. You can access TESS here. Registering a trademark is something you can do yourself. We have an article explaining the steps with...
  9. Gregory Carson

    So WTF are NFTs all about? Buying JPGs? Why can't you just right-click save? Is this a giant ponzi? Far from it...

    HOT! CRYPTO 
    We recently published an article with the basics for NFT's because we have been getting a lot of questions about them. They are fairly simple in implementation anyway ... What is a Non-Fungible Token (NFT)? In today’s digital world, a non-fungible token (NFT) is a digital asset that is sold and...
  10. Gregory Carson

    How long to look for a brand name?

    There are two things I usually suggest when it comes to business naming basics. Use a name that has meaning in the business area. You can always use your name and services like my business (Carson Patents) does. But, something like Patent Application Specialists would have worked as well...
  11. Gregory Carson

    Self-Promotion: Post Your Offer, YT Channel, Services, etc. (2022)

    MARKETPLACE 
    Four Steps to Patenting an Invention Carson Patents® has four steps to seeking a patent for a utility or design invention. The four steps are: [1] search, [2] write, [3] file, and [4] prosecute. We start with the prior art search. If the invention is patentable, then we write and file the...
  12. Gregory Carson

    website development

    I may have misread the question, or misinterpreted it. I saw the question as asking about the costs for website in terms of services, in particular because the second half of the question was about whether one of those website mills would be a good place to do it. I apologize if I got it wrong...
  13. Gregory Carson

    website development

    You get more control, freedom, and lower cost by avoiding the website predators like the go daddy thing. For less than $500 a year you can go straight to whois buy your own domain name for $9.88/year, then use the $300 premium business account on Wordpress and add the Yoast plugin subscription...
  14. Gregory Carson

    The Best Action Fake On Learning SEO is Learning SEO Without A Paid Tool Like Ahrefs/SEMRUSH

    SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    GSC (google search console) and GA (google analytics) actually have keyword data and backlink data, the paid tools just have you connect their paid service account to GSC and GA to collect the data and then repackage it for you. It is extraordinarily difficult to find this data on the mess than...
  15. Gregory Carson

    What do you do when hit by failures?

    MINDSET FAILURE 
    Plan the work, and then, work the plan. The obvious problem, life is what happens while we make plans. Trouble with failure upsets in the stream is that they make you spend so much time thinking that things can get worse before they get better because less is done in any direction. My father had...
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