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easypic4 software
Unless you're working for a large corporation with $ and lawyers; patents are very costly and for most inventors are a complete waste of resources. You WILL need a patent lawyer otherwise it'll never stand in court, all a patent is "is the right to sue". You'll also need to do a prior art search and so on. At least $10K per patent in the US and a worldwide patent is much more expensive. Also forget about Patents in China they'll just copy it and good luck going to court over it.
AND with a patent you have to disclose your design for the world to see.
Here is Don Lancasters (The Original Electronics GURU) site.
https://www.tinaja.com/
And the case against patents.
https://www.tinaja.com/glib/newpats.pdf
If you want help I will sign an NDA and will look at your design, I'll offer my opinion free but if you (we) wish to pursue the design I'm sure we can come to an agreement.
PS I have four patents with my name as inventor but Baxter paid for them. They can afford them.
Unless you're working for a large corporation with $ and lawyers; patents are very costly and for most inventors are a complete waste of resources. You WILL need a patent lawyer otherwise it'll never stand in court, all a patent is "is the right to sue". You'll also need to do a prior art search and so on. At least $10K per patent in the US and a worldwide patent is much more expensive. Also forget about Patents in China they'll just copy it and good luck going to court over it.
AND with a patent you have to disclose your design for the world to see.
Here is Don Lancasters (The Original Electronics GURU) site.
https://www.tinaja.com/
And the case against patents.
https://www.tinaja.com/glib/newpats.pdf
If you want help I will sign an NDA and will look at your design, I'll offer my opinion free but if you (we) wish to pursue the design I'm sure we can come to an agreement.
PS I have four patents with my name as inventor but Baxter paid for them. They can afford them.