How to Get a Provisional Patent to Protect Your Invention Before Anyone Steals It From You

By Dave Korpi
What you should know about getting a patent or a provisional patent on your new idea or invention.

First, I presume you know about the students in Cal Tech who thought it would be cool to take photos of houses on every street in their town and then link those photos to GPS data to then be able to display those images by address.

Think Google Street View... Now think about how cool it was that those students were smart enough to spend $110 to get a Provisional Patent to protect the concept... It is not too hard to file a provisional patent that says not much more than a means to take photos of all of the houses on streets and link those with GPS data to enable a user to look at the street view of any particular address.

I am sure you have read the news that Google is in litigation with these students because the students say Google stole their idea...

What I want you to appreciate is how powerful, and what a great investment it was for those students to spend $110 to perhaps earn millions and millions in royalties from Google's Street View...

The point is if you have some idea that you THINK might be a good one then you should look into getting a provisional patent.

I urge you to learn more about how to get a provisional patent to protect your cool invention.

I also urge you to get a non-disclosure agreement and have ANYONE you share your concept with sign it. Click my link to get your free non-disclosure agreement if you do not have one. The best is a mutual non-disclosure agreement because it protects both parties equally and will be signed even by the most peasly manager or CEO.

Ending Lesson: Get your provisional patent and believe in your idea! Learn how a provisional patent serves some of the same elements as a Non Disclosure document!

What have YOU got to lose? Go for it and get it done now....Or someone else may do it before you and boy would that be a bummer!