Patents and Prototypes

In line with the UK being predominantly a service-based economy these days many of the ideas presented to us at Budding Entrepreneur are e-businesses, service based or purely conceptual. Happily we also receive a large number of enquiries from people with physical inventions: widgets and gizmo’s if you like.

Many people think they know something about protecting ideas but proper protection is a complicated area pitted with saloon-bar myths. What anyone who watches Dragon’s Den etc will definitely know is that inventions are valueless without the correct patents.

Patent Plan offers the full range of services required by the inventor from review / consulting prior to making the initial patent application right through to design and build of prototypes - think of them as bodyguards for ideas! Their approach is highly consultative and whilst an inventor may think that all the i’s have been dotted and t’s crossed Patent Plan has the experience to offer a different perspective and constructively challenge design assumptions.

An award winning practise headed by Kit Grundy and Graham Thompson, Patent Plan deals with hundreds of inventions across a broad range of areas every year.

They provide a level of service and expertise only usually found at far larger practices with the benefit of much more reasonable rates.

Visit their website here www.patentplan.co.uk or contact them directly here www.patentplan.co.uk/contactus.html