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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Patenting an idea or an invention... who to go to? What to do?
For those who have an idea or something already constructed, should they just go about making alot, setting up a website or on ebay to market and sell it? Or should they seek out other avenues first?
Does anyone know?
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We have four children; one left us too soon.
We have four children; one left us too soon.
Re: Patenting an idea or an invention... who to go to? What to do?
My first step would be to google search the idea and also search google patents. Most ideas I think of either already exist or are tragicly flawed
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Getting a patent is a long, intensive, expensive process. It's what I do all day, every day. Infrequently for independent inventors, though.
I'd suggest as a very first step, doing a very careful google search, as well as a search of a patent database (freepatentsonline.com is a good one, as is the USPTO database). It's amazing, what has been done before but just didn't make it big enough for you to have heard of.
There's a big range in what it can cost, but if you do those searches and truly don't find anything like what you're doing, you'll want to contact a patent attorney before any steps to market or manufacture the invention.
It's definitely an investment, between getting patent protection and commercializing it, so just make sure you're prepared for the long haul if it's something you want to do.