cousin need a patent on farm equipment
 

this some serious adapt or die buddy! we trying to figure it out for patent.

Modern methods in Agriculture - Innovative Idea of Farmers in Karimnagar - Video Dailymotion

Welcome to 100 yrs ago.

http://data.whicdn.com/images/576456...p8ow_large.jpg

I don't know how this works in India, but pretty much in the rest of the world; if that video is about that patented product/ idea, you lost your chances.

Patented things can't be public until you have applied for patent. Only exeptions are usually only about cases where the patented thing has become public because of some malicious activity (of others).

Nope - not true. Unless you by "rest of the World" Means Mexico.
Some even go public with the idea before its patentet. Because if you have a recorded public appearance, it gives you a timestamp. And others seeking the same patent, must show they have a working prototype at the same time or sooner.

My father actually held half the patent rights to this piece of farm equipment called "The Ducknester"

http://www.fao.org/docrep/00950e/00950e09.jpg

In fact that photo may have been taken on our land. I know my mom took some better pictures of the prototyping and testing but I haven't seen them in decades.

He came up with the idea and worked with a local welding shop owner to perfect it and they shared the patent.

But before they got going making sales the welding shop owner vanished, nobody ever heard from him again, the guy didn't have any family and we couldn't have him declared dead until after the patent ran out or something so now it's in public domain.

Irrigation methods have been changing and very few farmers still row-irrigate using ditches, but I spent many an hour as a kid running that damn thing.

that is great piece of machinery there. also remind me movie Saw II :winkwink:

"Novelty is a patentability requirement. An invention is not new and therefore not patentable if it was known to the public before the date of filing of the patent application, or before its date of priority if the priority of an earlier patent application is claimed. The purpose of the novelty requirement is to prevent the prior art from being patented again."

Novelty (patent) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It is not about whether you invented it first or not, it is about is the invention new or not.


You probably mean this, which applies to some countries.

"Grace period

In some countries, such as the United States, Canada, Australia and Japan, a grace period exists for protecting an inventor or their successor in title from authorised or unauthorised disclosure of the invention before the filing date. That is, if the inventor or the successor in title publishes the invention, an application can still be validly filed which will be considered novel despite the publication, provided that the filing is made during the grace period following the publication. The grace period is usually 6 or 12 months.

In other countries, including European countries, any act (or almost any act) that makes an invention available to the public, no matter where in the world, before the filing date or priority date has the effect of barring the invention from being patented. Examples of acts that can make an invention available to the public are written publications, sales, public oral disclosures and public demonstrations or use."

Novelty (patent) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

in the light of recent threads on GFY I was expecting something different