that would be great if it wasn't so difficult to actually file a well constructed patent application. Most people must resort to outside assistance to just file for a patent. The other problem arises in when a person is attempting to determining if it is worth patenting. Where Apple and Samsung and all the guys with money file patents on everything they think of just to protect it from anybody else using it, an inventor is hoping to make some money off the item and as such, has to do some market research to determine if there is any value in the product. It becomes difficult to not reveal some aspects of the product, if not actually all of them in that endeavor.Browne;644724]Which is why you keep things like this close to the vest. The best way to protect what you have is to not let anyone know what you have.
the problem with patents, in general, is that if you don't have a bunch of disposable money available, the truth is, you cannot get your product patented. I have invented several items that I did not patent. I have seen a few of them, several years down the road, being produced and marketed. It's not that they stole my ideas but simply that we both came up with nearly identical products. When checking their app dates, my invention preceded theirs but alas, I'm just a poor boy but I need no sympathy because I'm easy come, easy go. Sometimes a little high, sometimes a little low. Really, anyway the wind blows doesn't really matter to me.Besides which, the other side of the coin comes into play as well. Many people will try to claim something that isn't theirs, and this act which, I don't think takes effect until March of next year, should help cut down on those phony claims.
anyway, if I could have afforded to patent my products, it may have been possible I would have been earning the royalties from those sales.![]()

