>Your position concerning not signing a NDA is sound but what would
>you suggest a new inventor do to protect themselves besides filing
>for a provisional patent when they're approaching manufacturers to
>produce a prototype or companies to license it?
Nothing, beyond doing a little research before approaching companies to avoid egregiously sleazy ones.
Most people grossly overestimate the value of their own intellectual property. The problem an inventor should be thinking about is how to persuade people that his invention is worth buying, not how to keep people from stealing it.
R's,
John
Received on Sat Jun 18 2005 - 01:05:16 GMT
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