Medical Manufacturing and Design and Development of Medical Prototypes
Design and development of medical prototypes is critical for marketing and selling your medical device product idea to potential investors, customers and others in the medical manufacturing and distribution field. Our mechanical engineers design and build medical prototypes with the intent of good manufacturing practices. We partner with well established prototype machine and medical manufacturing firms. This close relationship with our vendors assures us that your project is done correctly and delivered on time. In addition, eliminating additional costs, such as unforeseen modifications to the manufacturing process or costly mistakes is another primary concern for our mechanical engineers.
Our mechanical engineers adhere not only to good manufacturing practices, but to the United States Patent and Trademark Office manufacturing and testing standards as well. The invention process has three separate phases: motivation, perspiration, and most important reduction to practice (prototyping). Specification describes how your invention operates. If you file your application before reduction to practice, your application might not include modifications that would have been found during prototyping. You might have to add or subtract features from your product to make it work properly. The changes to product design after submitting an invention to be patented could cause major problems in obtaining a patent. It is important to remember that the United States Patent and Trademark Office bars applicants from presenting new matter once a patent application has been filed.
In addition, It is also important to remember that in medical manufacturing and medical prototype development, the federal law grants the patent of medical devices to the person who is first to conceive of the invention and diligently reduce it to practice. The United States Patent and Trademark Office, which states, “In determining priority of inventions there shall be considered not only the respective dates of conception and reduction to practice of the invention , but also the reasonable diligence of one who was first to conceive and last to reduce to practice, from a time prior to conception by the other.” In other words, prototyping is crucial and skipping this step, or failing to document this step adequately, can reduce your chances of getting a patent issued.
