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602 | <strong>Patent</strong> it YOURSELF<br />

Weak patent, 116, 137, 139, 432<br />

Weasel words, 242–243<br />

Website names. See Domain names<br />

Website of inventor, 409<br />

Website resources, 454–456. See also<br />

Internet<br />

WEST (Web-based Examiner Search<br />

Tool). See PubWest<br />

Whack-a-Mole rejections, 349–350<br />

“Whereby” clauses, 228, 229, 230–231,<br />

243, 244, 245<br />

adding, in amendment, 363, 364<br />

Whimsical inventions, 101<br />

White pigment<br />

to correct drawings, 261<br />

to correct typewritten lines, 270<br />

Wild cards, 141–142, 166<br />

Witnesses<br />

to building and testing, 46, 54, 56,<br />

58, 59, 60<br />

to computer printout, 53, 56<br />

Document Disclosure Program and,<br />

56<br />

to Invention Disclosure, 55, 56<br />

to items affixed in notebook, 53<br />

to notebook, 50, 53–54, 89<br />

ramifications invented by, 50<br />

to trade secrets, 47, 54, 175<br />

Words and phrases to avoid, 196<br />

Working model (prototype)<br />

in marketing evaluation, 81, 85, 86,<br />

88<br />

for marketing to companies,<br />

308–309, 312–313, 314<br />

operability of, 81, 85<br />

sending to prospective<br />

manufacturer, 314<br />

showing to examiner, 183, 346, 384<br />

showing to venture capitalist, 315<br />

at trade show, 316<br />

virtual, 81, 89, 309<br />

See also Building and testing; Model<br />

maker<br />

Work made for hire, 22<br />

World Intellectual Property<br />

Organization (WIPO), 140, 321, 322,<br />

329, 330, 333<br />

application format and, 270<br />

World Trade Organization (WTO), 103<br />

Writer’s block, 50, 195<br />

Writing style, for specification, 193,<br />

195, 201–202, 205, 208<br />

X<br />

X patents, 144<br />

XRs. See Cross-references<br />

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