Potential Invention - Who to tell?

April 16, 2019, 02:40 PM

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Originally posted by jhe888:
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Originally posted by shiftyvtec:
I tend to save any signed document with an employer. Looking through them, I can not locate any other than background, driving record/ co-vehicle policy. Without contacting HR, I cannot be sure.

Does anyone know what the costs are these days for patent search & patent?

I have worked up a thorough CAD drawing and description of the invention traits and function.

Thanks for the advice.

Go consult with an intellectual property lawyer. Really. Before you do anything else.

Stop listening to your internet friends who don't even play lawyers on TV. No one has said anything egregiously wrong in this thread (yet), but it is a complicated subject, fraught with peril. You are getting fragments, and nothing like the whole picture.

Yep. Mrs DF and I did this and followed the path designated by our legal counsel. Start to finish was a few years but the result was a bullet proof patent that we sold later. Not every great idea is successful. The better mouse trap line is not often true.

April 17, 2019, 05:34 AM

White Phosphorus

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:
Typically for great rewards, you will need to entertain risk. Be it investing your own time / money / livelihood if its something you really believe in.

If you present to someone who essentially shoulders all of the risk to design build test, expect them to take a commensurate portion of the rewards.

This deserves a second look.

I don't like partnerships of any kind. There should be only one person at the helm.

V.

April 17, 2019, 08:21 AM

slosig

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Originally posted by White Phosphorus:
I don't like partnerships of any kind. There should be only one person at the helm.

Years ago I asked a friend and mentor who was almost like a father to me about whether I should partner on a project I was starting. His response has always stuck with me: “I only have one partner and I sleep with her.”