Patent experts

[J Diddy]

Originally Posted by CrazyPhuD

Speaking as someone who has multiple patents to their name.

Ideas are a dime a dozen....execution matters.

In essence even if it hasn't been done before....does anyone want to buy it? Because if the answer is no you'll have spend at least a few thousand dollars on a piece of paper that has no real value.

If you know what you're doing you could write a patent disclosure and file it relatively cheaply(i.e. around $100) and it would buy you a year to develop the idea and find out if it's worth anything before the real patent has to be filed.

But if you're asking this question you don't really know what you are doing and you're going to need an attorney to write it for you. This is because if you write a disclosure wrong then it will just get thrown out and be useless to establish date.

But really spend the time to build it, find out if people even want it. THEN worry about trying to patent it.

There is no magic patent something and then tada rake in the billions of dollars.

thing is I have the logistics down. In fact I have a meeting with a guy who can transfer his shop to deal with the conversion. TBH, there's 1 thing seperating me from sinking some money into this and that is wheter or not someone's gotten this idea patented.

[Exoter175]

Originally Posted by Dick Bull

thing is I have the logistics down. In fact I have a meeting with a guy who can transfer his shop to deal with the conversion. TBH, there's 1 thing seperating me from sinking some money into this and that is wheter or not someone's gotten this idea patented.

Google it

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Dick Bull

thing is I have the logistics down. In fact I have a meeting with a guy who can transfer his shop to deal with the conversion. TBH, there's 1 thing seperating me from sinking some money into this and that is wheter or not someone's gotten this idea patented.

When seeking to secure rights to intellectual property, particularly a patent, you would be well served to involve an attorney as soon as possible, if for no other reason than their fiduciary duty would keep them from taking whatever details you converse about and running off to patent something himself.

If you really want to minimize expenditures, you can follow the recommendations of the patent and trademark office

http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process/search/

All patents are online and fully searchable.

It's gonna eat up a shit ton of your time, and still may not find things you need to be aware of, due to the sheer volume of the databases.