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Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 12:10 PM
To: entrepreneursathome@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [entrepreneurs] prototype
Brad,
Yes to all your questions. The fear of getting your idea stolen should
lead you to a good patent attorney post haste. I have worked with
companies that patented my ideas and then charged us to use them. We did
not patent the idea. So what they did was perfectly legal - not morally
supportable but legal. They played by the rules of business.
Of all the prototype shops I have dealt with (dozens), I have only had
one - rip-off incident (over 20 years of product development
experience). Most are willing to do an honest job but patent protect.
Yes, it costs money but it will save you money as well in the long run.
It is the proverbial step one of the whole business process. What you
might find is that your idea has already been patented and then you
would potentially be in legal trouble if you were pursuing this for
profit (this happens a lot more frequently than people want think).
There are usually inventor clubs that meet locally in large urban areas.
They can help you with doing some of the patent - prior discovery
searches to determine if you want to go forward with hiring the
attorney. No sense in hiring an attorney to find out there is prior
discovery. I also just caught a streaming internet ad recently by the
ad-council referring people to www.inventnow.org (it might have been
.com not sure. The US patent web-site is also relatively easy to manage
your way through as well. Plan on a lot of time for this - it might take
a couple of weeks to sift through similar inventions.
I hope this helps, God Bless, Ed R.
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From: "harris.brad" <harris.brad@yahoo.com
<mailto:harris.brad%40yahoo.com> >
Has anyone every had a product prototyped by a another company? or has
anyone every had a product stolen or know of anyone that has had an
idea stolen by a prototype company?
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