[unclebilly]

What does this thread have to do with the Dearly Departed?

There was a thread a few weeks about regarding patents etc. Give that a read.

Bottom line: a patent is a license to sue. There are no patent police. If you get a patent and MegaBigGiant Corporation decided to infringe, do you have the MegaBigGiant bank account required to spend on lawyers for litigation with MegaBigGiant Corporations team of lawyers?

If you have a product, file a provisional (or not), show the idea to prospective suitors and take a percentage of the game or go forward as Milt suggests, register a TM and be first to market - think ebay, other me too online auction sites exist but everyone uses ebay becasue they were first.

At the end of the day is dependant on the product, the market, and how much time and money you have to develop and market the concept.