Author's Questionnaire
Before starting to answer USD-System’s personalized questionnaire below,  please make sure to fill in your personal information, as this questionnaire is solely intended for authors of creations, inventions and innovations.

Feel free to answer every question,
for they do not disclose any of your secrets
 
Last Name :
First Name :
Date of birth (YYYYMMDD):
Nationality :
Profession :
Address :
City :
Prov./State :
Coutry :
Postal Code/ZIP:
P.O. Box :
Telephone :
Email :
Who referred you to us ?
 

Are you a designer, an inventor or a creator?
(~ Check the boxes that match your situation ~)
 
1st Question : Do you think that your original idea results from your imagination and/or intelligence ?
YES
NO
2nd Question : In order to express your original idea into concrete form, did you use a physical medium such as paper, computer program or other ?
  YES NO
3rd Question : Did you find a technical and/or technological process that allows your creative idea to be used and/or did you find a method that allows your service to be used ?
YES
NO
4th Question : Did you respect the criteria of literary art when you described your process and/or
service ?
YES
NO
Consequences
If you answered " YES " to the 1st question, you are a ................: Designer
 
If you answered " YES " to the 2nd question, you are a ...............: Creator
 
If you answered " YES " to the 3rd question, you are an ..............: Inventor
 

If you answered " NO " to the 4th question, you are not the ........:

 Author of a literary and/or artistic work
In which case, your creative idea can not benefit from the copyright act
 
Copyright is free: It solely provides the owner of a creative literary and/or artistic work (also called a Work of the Mind) with the exclusive right to produce and reproduce © such work for commercial purposes, for his entire lifetime, in addition to 50 to 70 years after his death.
Additional questions
Would you like to take advantage of a free worldwide exclusive right to produce and reproduce your creative work ?
YES
NO
For that to happen, you must become the worldwide owner of your creative idea.  Is that what you want ?
YES
NO
In this case, you can purchase your Intellectual Passport CB and enjoy such ownership.
Do you want more information concerning the Intellectual Passport CB?
YES
NO
If you answered "YES" to the last question, continue with the questionnaire.


For further information concerning the meaning of the words used in this
questionnaire, please refer to the chapter: "Words’ Literal definition"
conveniently situated at the end of this text.
 

Please specify the discipline
that best suits your creative concept
Comment: If your creative concept applies to more than one discipline,
please check all of  the appropriate boxes below
Biology Applied to Agriculture, Science and Industry
Horticulture and Forestry; Gardening and Landscaping Design
All sources and Types of Energy
Chemistry applied to Industry, Agriculture, Science and Photography
Pharmaceutical, Veterinary medicine, Hygiene and Food Science
Alcoholic and Mineral Beverages
Aeronautics and Space Navigation
Research and Development
Metallurgy/Smelting, Construction of Metal, Furniture, Buildings and others
Mechanics, Machinery and Tools, Electrical and Electronic Units
Scientific Instruments and Tools, Recording Equipment, Digital and Computer Equipment
Surgical, Medical and Orthopedic Instruments and Tools
Non-metal materials, Furniture, Buildings and Art
Fire Arms and Pyrotechnics
Jewelry, Kitchen Utensils, Household Appliances and Dishes

Musical world, including instruments, as well as all types of artistic accessories and products
Textile, Clothing and Decorative products and services
Education, Teaching, Sport and Entertainment
Games and Toys
Advertising, Marketing, Management, Administration and offices
Civil Engineering, Cleaning and Maintenance
Law, Insurance and Finance
Telecommunications, Services and Supplies
Transport
Restaurants, Hotels, Lodging/Apartments and Medical Services
Security/safety Industry
Commerce, Craft Industry and Services
Indicate your actual condition
1 – You never registered a title or a copyright:  For the safeguard of your idea, develop your Intellectual Passport CB, which you may adapt to fit the evolution of your idea, to outrun your potential competitors, armed with the legal and commercial benefits of your worldwide property!

2 –

 You already hold a national title of commercial monopolistic exploitation (utility, design or plant patent, to name a few):  Develop an Intellectual Passport CB to expand your ownership worldwide!

3 –

 You already hold an international title:  If there are still some interesting Nations to your incumbency, you may develop your Intellectual Passport CB to extend to the rest of the world!

4 –

 You already hold copyright on a software:  This particular copyright has been granted but with restrictions; furthermore some enhancing elements are missing (economic forecasts and contracts).  It therefore makes sense to increase the safeguard of your software with an Intellectual Passport CB !

5 –

 You already hold a copyright © or ISBN number granting a so-called copyright on a methodology, a rule of a game, a craftsman’s tricks of the trade, a recipe, or other: Never forget that it is not the number of either the copyright or ISBN that provides you with a genuine copyright. Only ownership of a true Work of the Mind naturally provides such a right. The number of either a copyright or ISBN only holds the function of certifying the date at which the idea was recorded and registered as existing.  If you only possess such an administrative registration, a third party with sufficient means can prove, before a court of law, that the description of your concept and its related business strategy do not meet the criteria governing the art in question.  An Intellectual Passport CB would prevent such an unfortunate outcome!
Comment: Since one cannot logically describe an original idea without including an adequate graphic representation, three cases are possible:
1st Case : You never registered a title:  Your graphic work must be part of your Intellectual Passport CB, thus providing you with a well rounded and international safeguard of your idea.
2nd Case : You hold a national registered drawing (design patent or other):
This does not provide your design with either a satisfactory safeguard or worldwide property; only an Intellectual Passport CB will!
3rd Case : You hold an international registered drawing:
Again, this is but a registration.  An Intellectual Passport CB will provide you with all the means required for worldwide commercialization!
Comment: Whichever case applies to your current situation, always bear in mind that a registered drawing (which discloses your secrets) is temporary and has limited applicability. Only an original and truly artistic drawing ~ as with an original and strictly literary text ~ provides the author with worldwide and permanent intellectual property.
 
If you wish to obtain the free expert opinion of a lawyer,
dated and signed in his name, fill out the following questionnaire.

Once you have obtained all the necessary information from our  website, you only have one or two basic questions to ask us, which must be answered by a legal counsel, who commits himself professionally.
You will then be completely certain that the Intellectual Passport CB is legally valid.
 
Please check the question of your choice and the lawyer will answer it:
- 1
Explain to me how the Intellectual Passport CB, produced by a private Editor for an inventor like myself, can be used to invalidate, by court order, an official title such as a patent (utility, design, plant patent), which is subsequently granted to a third party by a State-regulated Institute or Office invalidated such as PCT, USPTO, CIPO, etc.?
Lawyer’s response.
- 2
If an Intellectual Passport CB provides worldwide property, an international business forecast and a set of matching contracts, why do patent agents not sell it to their clientele? Lawyer’s response.

- 3

If, as it is asked by both the institutes and patent registration offices, as well as by so-called experts in intellectual property, a copyright is obtained free of charge and that its official registration is done for a small fee; why then does an Intellectual Passport costs $7,695 + consulting fees for a total of approximately $10,695 to $13,695 + taxes ?  Lawyer’s response.
- 4
It is asked by both the institutes and patent registration offices, as well as by so-called experts in intellectual property, that copyrights only ‘protect’ the expression of the idea enfolded in the work, not the idea itself, why and how then can the Intellectual Passport CB provide a world ownership of the content of the work that can be safeguarded, through its various strategies, against illegal copying anywhere on the globe?
Lawyer’s response.
- 5 If my invention is copied by a third party (whether in my country or elsewhere), what do you suggest to defend my rights? Editor's response.
- 6
According to both the institutes and patent registration offices, as well as so-called experts in intellectual property, a copyright does not "protect" inventions; explain to me then why and how the Intellectual Passport CB provides such a protection?
Lawyer’s response.
- 7 What do Official organizations (PCT, USPTO, CIPO, etc) think of the Intellectual Passport CB? Editor's response.
Time is money ! By waiting too much, one may well risk being preceeded !…

Design: v. tr. [imp. & p. p. {Designed}{p. pr. & vb. n. {Designing} [F. D[e]signer to designate, cf. F. dessiner to draw, dessin drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See {Sign}, and cf. {Design}, n. {Designate}.. make or work out a plan for; design a new sales strategy; conceive or fashion in the mind…
Design: n (cf Dessin, Dessein)… The creation of something in the mind …

Comment: As long as it is not put into concrete form onto a physical medium, the concept belongs to the realm of ideas that no one can claim as his own… As soon as the concept is put into concrete form onto a physical medium (paper or other), it belongs to the realm of creation, which the author can claim as his own, provided that his creative idea is described in a literary or artistic manner.

Invent: v. t. [L. inventus, p. p. of invenire to come upon, to find, invent;] 1. :  to search out or come upon… to come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort, “excogitate a way to measure the speed of light”…

Comment:  Finding something that already exists in the absolute or the collective thought, and which no one had previously found... According to the international criteria of patentability: finding an original technical process that can be industrialized and: a) allows to commercially exploit a concept or b) provides a new means of manufacturing a product that already exists, and c) which the presumed author claims as a precedence.*

Invention : n. [L. inventio: cf. F. invention See {Invent}.]: an act of finding or of finding out ( Syn. discovery)… Comment: a person who finds a prehistoric cave or a treasure comes up with a discovery, i.e. an invention. According to the criteria of patentability: finding a new technical process that can be industrialized.*

Comment: Prior to actually making the invention patentable, the author begins by putting it into concrete form onto some physical medium (paper or other)… From that moment, prior to any further modification, he performs a creative act; he can always claim this creative act, as long as it is literary or artistic.

Create: v. [L. creatus, p. p. of creare to create) make or cause to be or to become; {syn. make}] 2: bring into existence; to make out of nothing and for the first time.
Creation: n. (Latin creatio): n 1: the human act of creating [syn: {creative activity}] … something that is created… an original work of art or of the imagination.

Comment: Once the terms conceptual design, invention and creation are clearly understood, there is no doubt that a conceptual designer (inevitably) puts his creative concept into concrete form onto a physical medium in order to actualize it; likewise, an inventor follows the same path: namely, he begins by creating a concept and thereafter he fine-tunes the initial concept technically (whether or not the end result can be industrialized)… Only through this sequential order can one prove the precedence of an original idea, hence the precedence of the invention resulting therefrom. When the inventor includes the description of his invention in a literary and/or artistic work ~ i.e. a Work of the Mind ~ his invention definitively becomes a creation, and as its author he can claim rightful and legal ownership.
 

Work of the Mind: From work n. [OE. work, werk, weorc, AS. weorc, worc; akin to OFries. werk, wirk, OS., D., & G. werk, OHG. werc, werah, Icel.. & Sw. verk, Dan.. v[ae]rk, Goth. gawa ['u]rki, Gr. 'e`rgon, [digamma]e`rgon, work, "re`zein to do, 'o`rganon an instrument, 'o`rrgia secret rites, Zend verez to work]; 1: something produced by the exercise of creative talent or expenditure of creative effort; "The symphony was hailed as an ingenious work";"he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey"; "the work of an active imagination"; Comment: In the realm of intellectual property, Works of the Mind are classified as creative works of art (figurative, even ornamental, or abstract) that are creative and literary and/or artistic. An excellent artist who copies other works (e.g. a plagiarist) does not create. A work of art that does is not creative is not a Work of the Mind since it does not emanate from creative intuition… Moreover, in order to provide its author with a non-transferable property resulting in exclusive rights “copyrights”, such a work must, in order to be understood, be created according to the specific techniques and rules that govern a given art, notably in the realm of literary or musical writing. The same principle applies to graphic art. Merely writing sentences or drawing shapes is therefore insufficient to establish an author’s work as a work of art, let alone a Work of the Mind.

Comment: A Work of the Mind is the property of its author by the mere fact that he created it.  It is free and, even unregistered, the resulting copyright is legally valid. Nevertheless, in order to officially register the date of its creation, the author may register his work either at a government institute or at a law firm, or even at some other duly mandated organization. In the case of a conflict with third parties regarding the identity of the author and/or the exact date as to when the work was created, evidence proving authorship and/or the date of creation is vital for the author’s case before a court of law.  In order to claim the copyrights inherent in the ownership of a Work of the Mind, the inventor or originator should therefore put his innovative concept into concrete form onto a physical medium according to the criteria, rules and techniques governing literary and artistic art.