On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:56:38 -0800, "Walter Harley"
wrote:

"Donald" wrote in message
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[...] Shawn,

If you have a patentable device, you should talk to a patent lawyer first.

Get started in the documentation first thing. As mentioned, you want to be
sure you won't get sued because you got to carried away with the
construction.

Time is on your side right now. Make sure you are protected, or you will
be wasting money for nothing.

donald

PS: If you have an original idea and its patentable, you will be able to
get someone else to build it for you. (after the patent)


You might want to have a look at http://www.tinaja.com/patnt01.asp, Don
Lancaster's web site devoted to patent issues, before you go too far down
that road.

Quoting from that site: "For most individuals and small scale startups,
patents are virtually certain to result in a net loss of time, energy,
money, and sanity. [...] the economic breakeven needed to recover patent
costs is something between $12,000,000.00 and $40,000,000 in gross sales."

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What a crock of ****.

If the total cost of acquiring a patent is $10,000 and getting the
product to market costs a million dollars, the cost of the patent
will only be 1% of the total up-front costs.

That means that for the cost of the patent to be covered in the
first year, sales must be equal to...

The calculation is left to the interested..,

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John Fields
Professional Circuit Designer