dabs
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Re: Looking for advice
03/04/06 12:36 PM
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Ozark -
My grandfather was an entrepeneour...this is what he did on three of four different things, nothing that came too popular...but this is what he did.
He took the plans to his ideas and put them in an envelope....sent them to himself certified sign receipt mail so it had an official date and time stamp on it from the US postal service. He then just put the mail in the drawer unopened.
If someone he presented his idea to stole it from him, he would have the proof through that documentation that he had the idea before them. Maybe instead of marketing it yourself, you make the prototypes to make sure they work and then approach one of the bigger companies and look at royalties????
When it comes to patents, that only will protect you from someone making the same thing. If you use screw "a" and hook "v" and they change it to screw "m" and hook "w" - plus they make a small change on the lip or the tail....it really isn't your patent...even though it is the same concept.
If you can show someone stole your concept though, that is more better....or so my grandfather always said. It worked for him in one instance.
dab
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