Hot Breakthrough ~ Need Advice
09-04-05 | 02:23 PM
#26
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You can start here: https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac...ral/index.html
Write a description of your invention. Include drawings and test results if applicable. Sign and date everything, and get a witness to sign and date also. Talk to a patent attorney. The initial consultation over the phone is usually no-cost.
If you don't already have one, get a non-disclosure agreement. That will protect your rights to the invention as you discuss it with manufacturers. If you discuss your invention with anyone, make sure they sign your non-disclosure agreement first.
That's just the beginning. How successful you are depends on you.
Write a description of your invention. Include drawings and test results if applicable. Sign and date everything, and get a witness to sign and date also. Talk to a patent attorney. The initial consultation over the phone is usually no-cost.
If you don't already have one, get a non-disclosure agreement. That will protect your rights to the invention as you discuss it with manufacturers. If you discuss your invention with anyone, make sure they sign your non-disclosure agreement first.
That's just the beginning. How successful you are depends on you.
09-04-05 | 04:50 PM
#27
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Originally Posted by Bontrager
Someone told me you could send a certified mail to yourself that has your ideas/drawings/whatever in it. This way if someone steals your idea, you can prove that it was yours. He called it the "poor man's patent".
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09-04-05 | 09:02 PM
#30
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Bontrager I was about to say the same thing. A friend of mine did this with some writings of his that were going to be published.
Just mail it to yourself a couple times and don't open it.
Just mail it to yourself a couple times and don't open it.
09-04-05 | 09:21 PM
#31
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Just because Richard didn't reply to the biospace comments, just curious, did you read this?
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/biopace.html
Just in case it is the same.
Good luck though
https://www.sheldonbrown.com/biopace.html
Just in case it is the same.
Good luck though
09-08-05 | 09:03 AM
#32
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From: Murray Utah
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Thanks to each of you for your letters of encouragement and advice. I have had three engineers review my design and confirm its feasibility.
Here is wishing us all good luck in our individual pursuits.
Here is wishing us all good luck in our individual pursuits.
