How do I patent a product or idea?

floccus

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Just do like big companies do... produce the product, put patent pending on it, then sue anyone who uses your ides :D
 

Yossarian

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it had better be a good idea... patents are expensive (thousands of $$), and if someone infringes you still need to come up with the dough to sue them.
 

Chrishuff1

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I dont know how to produce it :p Maybe I should just forget about a patent :( I got a idea i'd like to throw out to some companies but i fear that they'd steal it and i'd be left with nothin thus the patent.
 

floccus

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You can sell them the idea.... as long as you have some sort of proof you came up with the idea you presented them, then they would infringe on intellectual property rights if they stole it.
 

Yossarian

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Originally posted by: Chrishuff1
What kind of proof could I have/show?

drawings, a videotape of a working model, sketches, text description... depends on what kind of idea yours is.