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<blockquote data-quote="whitely" data-source="post: 391206" data-attributes="member: 5167"><p>Patents can be easy to file, but costly to maintain and defend. If you wanted to license the invention to a large company, they may want to know that they have an intellectual property (IP) position that they can defend before investing a large sum of money. To this end, the patent must be properly written, so I wouldn't go with the lowest bidder and would find someone with a knowledge of patent writing, preferably in the firearms area. Have a look at the Shaw patent on spiral fluting for example.</p><p></p><p>Based on what you wrote above, it sounds like your invention is novel, and you could probably patent the system. I am a co-inventor on around 40 patents or so (I haven't checked lately) related to drug discovery. The patent field is constantly changing, driven largely by court cases so how you write patents can change over a fairly short period of time. Also, don't expect to lock up the whole field, but focus on protecting the core of your invention and what you really care about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="whitely, post: 391206, member: 5167"] Patents can be easy to file, but costly to maintain and defend. If you wanted to license the invention to a large company, they may want to know that they have an intellectual property (IP) position that they can defend before investing a large sum of money. To this end, the patent must be properly written, so I wouldn't go with the lowest bidder and would find someone with a knowledge of patent writing, preferably in the firearms area. Have a look at the Shaw patent on spiral fluting for example. Based on what you wrote above, it sounds like your invention is novel, and you could probably patent the system. I am a co-inventor on around 40 patents or so (I haven't checked lately) related to drug discovery. The patent field is constantly changing, driven largely by court cases so how you write patents can change over a fairly short period of time. Also, don't expect to lock up the whole field, but focus on protecting the core of your invention and what you really care about. [/QUOTE]
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