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Or any experiences getting patents executed?

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I thought you were talking about executing a patient at first glance

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Greg Raymer

I don't know how enforceable this is, but someone once told me about a "poor man's patent"

Basically, you write a letter to yourself, which includes all the details of your product. You then send it to yourself certified mail. This established a record of when it was mailed - i.e. a date.

if your idea is really radical, I'd imagine you could quietly work on it and sell a few to raise the money needed for a patent application and to hire legal help if needed.

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I don't know how enforceable this is, but someone once told me about a "poor man's patent"

Basically, you write a letter to yourself, which includes all the details of your product. You then send it to yourself certified mail. This established a record of when it was mailed - i.e. a date.

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This is not a thing. It wasn't a thing before, but it's especially not a thing now because the US has moved from first-to-invent to first-to-file.

You can do some free searching on the internet before contacting an attorney to save some cash.

Thanks BioBobcat, I was going to take it down as soon as I got a call but never got one.

Not to discourage you at all,

but was talking to a friend of mine about an idea that he could've patented many years ago. The concept is widely used now.

He said it "was just cost prohibitive, and that a patent is only as good the money you have to defend it."

That might be something you want to discuss with your attorney on the front end, rather than finding out a few years from now...

Best of luck with your product!