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: : : : : : I have desiged a new type and style toothbrush and I have no money. What do I do ? : : : : : : Dear Linda or Bennett, : : : Get a Reality Check (sm) to save time money or worry. : : : M. Arthur Auslander : : : Auslander & Thomas-Intellectual Property Law Since 1909 : : : 505 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10018 : : : 212-594-6900, fax 212-244-0028, aus@auslander.com : : : ELAINE's Workshop (sm) : : : E arly L egal A dvice I s N ot E xpensive : : : Dear Mr. Auslander, : : Giving you details of ideas without properly obtaining patent, seems to me mighty risky. Who's to say you wouldn't steal a magnificent...idea of the decade...and explore it yourself (after telling the hopeful inventor "it is no good"). You have to be quiet an unintelligent individual to release that kind of valuable information to someone, without first obtaining a patent...regardless of the cost (I rather take my chances for my own future profit, then relay my ideas without obtaining patent for it first). You are not answering anybody's questions as to how to go about obtaining patent for an idea...all you seem to be worry about are your reality checks. Good and well! Perhaps you should be advising people to patent their ideas, if they wish to first (AND TELL THEM THE AVERAGE COST TO PATENT AND IDEA), and then come to you for the reality check. It just seems so much safer that way...don't you think? : Dear Curious Inventor, : Lawyers are to clients as women are to men. You can't live with them and you can't live without them. : Getting a patent is not easy, if you don't know what you are doing. Getting a good patent is not even easy for a good Patent Lawyer. Patents are expensive. : Over a long career as a Patent Lawyer I have met only one or two inventors who really understood the patent law and could get their own good patents. : Jerry Lemelson, who recently died, had more patents than any other person and made $200M. He used to try and write his own patent applications when he started out. He couldn't then afford good patent lawyers he was filing so many applications on good ideas. : Well he did manage and finally after years of struggle made his fortune with the help of Patent Lawyers. : In order to be a lawyer one must meet and maintain ethical standards. Patent Lawyers must not only be admitted to practice law in their local jurisdication they also have to pass a special examination to practice before the United States Patent Office. : Even a dishonest patent lawyer would be crazy to steal clients inventions. He'd lose his licence to practice law and before the Patent Office too. : Now with all of this there is a $100M+ a year scam getting inventors to file patent applications. They even get patents for the inventors. : The catch is that only one in ten thousand make more money than they pay. : Just having a good idea or even a patent is not a direct key to making a penny. It is easy to spend a fortune, get a patent, even a good patent, and not make a penny. : This is where the Reality Check (sm) comes in. There is no way of guaranteeing that an invention will make money but, there is a clear way to save time money and worry and find out what to do without spending a fortune. : Sometimes there are ways of making money with a good idea even without a patent. : M. Arthur Auslander : Auslander & Thomas-Intellectual Property Law Since 1909 : 505 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10018 : 212-594-6900, fax 212-244-0028, aus@auslander.com : ELAINE's Workshop (sm) : E arly L egal A dvice I s N ot E xpensive

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