Patent Attestation

[kumar10]

What is the name of your state? California

I am in the process of building a patent that I plan to file later this month. When I originally conceived this idea about a year back, I had discussed this idea with two very close friends of mine to validate whether the idea would work and be implementable. I also have very clear records of the date(s) on which I had this conversation with them.

While talking to another friend I was given to understand that I could get an attestation from these other two buddies of mine that I infact discussed the above idea with them on the said dates. Would an attestation like this be useful? Does it give me any priority whatsoever? If such an attestaion can be used, is there a legal form/document that I would need to use. I searched the uspto site - but couldn't find anything.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[divgradcurl]

What is the name of your state? California

I am in the process of building a patent that I plan to file later this month. When I originally conceived this idea about a year back, I had discussed this idea with two very close friends of mine to validate whether the idea would work and be implementable. I also have very clear records of the date(s) on which I had this conversation with them.

While talking to another friend I was given to understand that I could get an attestation from these other two buddies of mine that I infact discussed the above idea with them on the said dates. Would an attestation like this be useful? Does it give me any priority whatsoever? If such an attestaion can be used, is there a legal form/document that I would need to use. I searched the uspto site - but couldn't find anything.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

It might be useful to establish an early priority date, but that isn't necessary unless you get sued and the other side claims that your patent is invalid, or if you get into an interference proceeding during the prosecution of your patent. Either way, at this stage, it really doesn't buy you anything, just keep good records in case you need to come back to it in the future.