Is it necessary to go to the Patent and Trademark Office to transact business concerning patent matters?
No, most business with the (PTO) is conducted by correspondence. Interviews regarding pending applications can be arranged with examiners if necessary, however, and are often helpful. Back To Top 5. If two or more persons work together to make an invention, to whom will the patent be granted? If each had a share in the ideas forming the invention, they are joint inventors and a patent will be issued to them jointly on the basis of a proper patent application. If, on the other hand, one of these persons has provided all of the ideas of the invention, and the other has only followed instructions in making it, the person who contributed the ideas is the sole inventor and the patent application and patent shall be in his/her name alone.
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