I WOKE UP THIS MORNING WITH A GREAT IDEA FOR AN INVENTION

Wow that is cool!

If you write down ur idea seal it in an envelope and mail it to yourself it will be post marked for that date so if someone else comes up with it after you at least you can show you had the idea first

First thing you do is write up the entire concept, include a drawing. Get it notarized and mail it to yourself. Put the unopened envelope in a safety deposit box.

This is insurance, if someone steals your idea you have proof it was yours first.

Now, research a Patent Firm in your area. Most of the time they'll do all the work for a % or buy the idea from you.

Good Luck!

Yes! Trust NOONE! My friend who beyond extremely wealthy came up with an awesome idea and because she couldnt prove it was her idea...she had it stolen from someone she was working with to have it patented.

ok i will try your suggestions

i got the idea but drawing it
is a whole another situation

if i can get it started
and become wealthy i will donate money to
glp :)

better yet start a glp fund
to help glpers that need help with anything

If it's anything to do with cheap or free energy, document it and splatter it all over the internet at one time from an internet cafe from a computer with a spoofed MAC address, and keep splattering it. Make it public domain. Don't associate yourself with it at all, but be prepared to enter the market after others start building and using it. The profits are less, but your health and longevity will be much greater. You can come out decades later after the disruptive influence has died down. Keep a certified letter to yourself as proof of original thought, or just keep the letter with your will.

TTowngirl,

First thing you do is a patent search to see if there is what is called "prior art"

That can be done here very simply. Just put the main component of your invention into the search and then drill down to the specific item.
[link to patft.uspto.gov]

After that if you dont find a "prior art" reference you can file a provisional patent for $225 here $97 for the forms and $125 for the application fee [link to www.patentwizard.com]

What a provisional patent does "if granted" is give you a few things.

1. The ability to market your invention to the corporate world (trying to get a licensing deal) using the "Patent Pending" clause

2. Protects your invention as you try and market it so that no one else can steal your invention.

3. The provisional patent gives you (1) one year to file a Non-provisional patent (which is a full blown patent)

So to register for a patent pending it will cost you $222

Good luck !

thanks for the info

i searched i didnt find a prior art

its nothing to do with that

It must be an invention related to the Caps Lock button. It appears that you are using it and it is working. Your recent posts aren't all in caps. Is it an anti-caps lock device, for those that are compelled to push the Caps Lock button and type everythign in caps?

no not that either

it is for something u use everyday
that will help if you
have a problem with the items

Make sure that you drill into the search

Lets say it has to do with "shoes"

and you want to attach decoration to the shoes

and you want those decorations to be interchageable

the search would be

"shoes attached decoration interchangeable"

Let me guess it is a new flavor of Newport? You should invent a Newport that won't give your kids cancer while you blow smoke in their faces.
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Yeah, believe this random person on the internet. I'm sure that would work out fine.

I invented the dicshunary and it's seems be doing pretty good...let me know if you need help

Instead of doing that, how about you consider feeding and caring for your children, whom you carelessly use as an AVATAR for MILLIONS of people to view each day on GLP. Grow a brain.