Timeline for Way to Claim an Idea for under $200 [closed]
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| Aug 29, 2019 at 10:17 | history | closed |
user4657 Trish A. K. Pat W.♦ |
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| Aug 19, 2019 at 16:57 | comment | added | Laconic Droid | Uber. But for patents. | |
| Aug 19, 2019 at 7:10 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 19, 2019 at 6:22 | comment | added | gnasher729 | If you have an idea, then copyright can protect the exact text that you used to write it down. However, the idea itself is not protected. So trying to use copyrights will not get you anywhere. Which is exactly what George White said, except it is expressed differently, so not violating his copyright. | |
| Aug 19, 2019 at 2:05 | answer | added | George White | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 19, 2019 at 1:58 | comment | added | George White | What copyrights can protect is the expression of an idea - not the underlying idea. Copyright will not help you at all. | |
| Aug 19, 2019 at 1:53 | comment | added | user4210 | I will say it again, because this is something that happens regularly in my area of expertise (software development) - ideas are cheap. Get an implementation, then patent it (if its patentable - it may not be), and then you have protection. Trying to protect an idea is going to be very expensive with absolutely no guarantees - you will essentially be falling back on contract law, so you would have to prove breach of contract. | |
| Aug 19, 2019 at 1:51 | comment | added | user4210 | No, because a schematic does not equate to the end product - they would have to disseminate the schematic for copyright to come into play. If another party creates their own schematic from your descriptions or discussions, they won't have breached your copyright (Im going with a normal understanding of international copyright here - you might find odd interpretations in some countries here and there, but by and large they dont work like that). | |
| Aug 19, 2019 at 1:38 | comment | added | user4210 | You cannot legally "mark an idea as your own" - implementations (via copyright, patents or trade secrets), yes, ideas, no. Ideas are cheap and easy, implementations are not. You can have other people sign an NDA and a non-compete before discussing the idea with them and then pursue them in court when they breach either of those things, but theres no way to register an idea as "yours". | |
| Aug 19, 2019 at 1:37 | history | edited | t1r3d | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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