Q: 6340334 patentIs there anyway to check if products out today are anything close to our patent?
I did see a couple manufactures last year that make portable boxing rings, don’t know if that would be close to our design? Maybe just improved idea??
Let me know if you have any interest
Thanks
A:
Jeff,
Google Patents notes that your patent expired in 2006 for failure to pay a maintenance fee. You may want to discuss this with your patent attorney. There are ways to pay for an unintentional failure to pay a maintenance fee to revive a patent that lapsed for failure to pay the maintenance fee but it will be hard to explain how you did not notice for 14 years that you were not paying the required maintenance fees.
I hope that this helps.
Kevin E Flynn
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