Hello fellow DIY'ers, Got a GREAT IDEA?? Looked it up online and NOBODY seems to have thought of it before?
How do you go about getting your IP patented so you can start produce and/or license it out to a large company without getting SHAFTED by schysters, Copied by Chinks(Impossiburu!!) or just having your Idea outright STOLEN by someone else, possibly even someone in the Patent office itself??
In this thread we discuss and trade info on how to secure your idea, get it patented, and begin the process of negotiation with either an established company for licensing and distribution for royalties, or taking bigger steps towards starting a production company yourself, and hiring in /OURGUYS/ and FUCK HR for evermore.
DO NOT POST YOUR IDEAS HERE, AS IT IS A PUBLIC FORUM AND YOUR RIGHT TO PATENT WILL BE LOST
This thread is ONLY for discussions of safe methodology,(until you get your provisional patent, that is.)
>DID YOU KNOW
☼ that it only cost $60-$70 to file a provisional patent?
☼ that places like "InventHelp" (the commercial with the retarded cartoon of the caveman making a stone wheel,)have actually been warned AGAINST by the FCC for practices that are almost but not quite fraud?
☼ that most patent lawyers are IN IT FOR THE MONEY*(no shit, right, but even the good ones will usually try to UPSELL you on "services" you don't need?)
☼ That you could start making money FASTER with your Idea by filing a provisional patent, doing the legwork of your "sales sheet" contacting companies directly, and licensing your idea to them?
☼ that posting your idea BeFORE it's provisionally patented WILL nullify your claim to your own IP, even if it's on a homemade webpage that NOBODY ELSE has even visited?