Invention Alley
Invention review services by Ron Vigneri are offered. His experience and counsel have been utilized by many inventors over the past two decades. His background in numerous technologies and his history in bringing inventions to market is extensive. Companies based upon certain of his patents have been created, operationally successful, profitable, and often sold at a significant premium.
Ron has been "burned" enough by partners and third parties to be able to recognize and instruct against the many problems and threats facing an inventor and his invention. The system is stacked against the small inventor, particularly the US patent system. He knows what to do within the system and what to avoid. He has counseled on pursuing a patentas well as, counseled to keep the invention a trade secret and proprietary.
Basically, the US patent system promises a monopoly on your invention by awarding a patent, but you have to pursue any infringement. The cost of trying to protect his patents became so costly and futile in the case of the CleanOX Process, that the company assets were sold to a much bigger, international, New York Stock Exchange traded company. Even then, the technology continues to be infringed by many companies. Probably that is what should be expected by lawyers having created the system. It ain't pretty out there in the real world!
A simple but legally proper non-use and non-disclosure form is offered to protect your idea or invention. Then for a prepaid fee of $100, Ron will technically review your idea and forward his formal opinion of the patent potential and market in the US. The opinion will be written and supplied per your instruction.
Detailed market studies and business plans can be quoted and then supplied. Your patent attorney or one of our associated patent attorneys can be utilized to formally prepare and apply for a patent of your invention.
Ron Vigneri Patent History
Laser Gyro 1963-69 US 3535040 Guidance for Boeing 757, 767, 777 aircraft plus rockets.
Honeywell awarded a plaque to Ron after delivery of the 250,000 unit in 2005. He would have rathered $1 per unit. Ron received a $25 check from Bendix Corp. as a patent award and promptly quit the company.
Laser Printer 1970-73 US 3751587 More than a decade before PC printers.
The first use of lasers to print copies some 20 years before an industry developed for PC systems. This technology was so far ahead of its time that it is hard to believe (no PCs back then).
Thermox Process 1981-85 US 4423780; 4456069 Oil well secondary recovery and treatment systems.
Technology for producing more US oil & gas from existing and new wells. 25 years too soon! The present oil price crisis should bring back this technology, especially now that the patents have expired.
CleanOX Process 1991-99 US 5286141; 5520483 Groundwater remediation system.
Founded an international industry with in-situ chemical oxidation system. Ron's patents have been infringed worldwide. Numerous international patents have also been granted over the years. The CleanOX assets were sold to ManTech International in 1998.
Note: Dozens of foreign patents related to the above are not listed.
