Because you can have a patent and not produce a product, and because you can have a patent within just an aspect of a  product. 

So the product is not original, & does not have the “substantial new utility” to be an Originator… But a component within it is done in a new, innovative way… with a patented solution. 

Yes, our register of originators has a patent section. Where the originators can list all the patents they have for their product. This can also help companies find examples of patent infringement, as the public can see them. It also helps consumers see why they are the original product, as having multiple patents is confusing.

For new products that have not been in business for a minimum of 3 years. We have created the “Provisional Originator Logo”. This lets consumers on, say, Kickstarter, know they are dealing with the people who created the original new product.

If they produce the product successfully for 3 years, this logo is replaced with the full “Originator Certification.”

3 years

Or, in some cases, the board can determine a minimum number that they must produce. Then they can have the logo and certification earlier than 3 years.

Obviously, this number varies from product to product, based on the nature of the product.

Our register of originators has a patents section where the originators can list all the patents they have for their product. This can also help companies find examples of patent infringement, as the public can see them.

Due to the huge expense and the fact that, in many cases, you can go around a patent, Patents generally have a large cost for the patent user. Whereas Originator is just a symbol and a rating, so it is nothing like that.

All we do is provide an instantly recognised logo that symbolises that the product is the original. To a publicly recognised standard, in an open process.

• So consumers can see the providence of brands that have brought original, new products to market. Even if the patient has long since expired.
• Or if a new product is being rapidly copied, or “fast followed,” by other products.

The rest is up to the consumer; we just change things by making that information very accurate and much faster to get.

Patents are not a rating that calls a product original. Instead, a patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention.

They don’t have to produce anything!

A patent is an exclusive right granted for an invention, which is a product or a process that provides, in general, a new way of doing something.

As it is a mark of origination, and therefore just a historical fact. Originators marks, once granted, last for the life of the company, even if the company is merged or acquired, rather than ending. Get passed on to the new entity.

XYZ of original products, or “Originators,” do not have patents. Some well-known examples of this would be the AirBlade fan from Dyson. (who decided to build a product that Toshiba patented but decided not to build)

Or in many cases, such as XYZ, that cannot be patented, but as we all know, It’s a groundbreaking original product.