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Gary Schuster with the Innovation Cafe, and today I want to come up with a little warning for people who have registered their patents.

If you have a patent, you are going to get offers to pay money, and they’re going to come in envelopes that look official. I want you to be careful, because the first offers you’re going to get are people who want you to pay money to have your patent published in a book of patents. There’s really no need for that — you can find your patent on the USPTO and on Google Patents. You don’t need to pay money to have it published in a book.

The second offer you’re going to get is people who want you to pay money to have your patent translated into another language. There’s really no need for that either, because your patent is only enforceable in the US if it’s a US patent, so you don’t need to translate it.

Just be careful about these offers. They’re going to come in the mail and they’re going to look official. Don’t fall for them.