I have invented a machine that is repeatedly more than 100% efficient.  how do I patent it without sabotage?
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hire a patent attorney, to protect your rights.
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Hi Secret Eagle, You are already well versed with the patents and copyrights. The thing is that in case you want to make money, you got to Patent. However, patenting does involve a lot of money, generally people hire attorneys to make their case strong for consideration for a patent. In case you want to make money, you will have to shed some initially, but then looking at the mass usability of your invention, you can definitely get profit. \n\nHowever, I can suggest you a better and more cheaper alternative. I am from India. As a child, I too used to frequent out in science fairs, with models on Robots to Compression Algorithms winning some commendable prizes with IBM, Infosys, Department of Science and Technology, National Geographic, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, etc. You can check them out at http://cs.dal.ca/~koul/\n\nIn government run fairs, there used to be a scheme, that all the inventions, models that have been shown, were protected by the government from copying, i.e. if someone saw an innovator's model in a fair and went home, copied the idea and went further to patent or market it, he could easily be penalized by the original innovator, through the support of your government. The government has been an earlier witness to the innovator's model and is responsile for its protection.\n\nAnother thing, you can sign a non disclosure aggrement with any party with whom you show the invention.\n\nIn case you are giving it in the public domain, I suggest you go to the appropriate officials in your country and do ask for some monetary benifits as you wish, looking at the benefit it will give to the common masses.
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from personal experience-DO NOT I repeat DO NOT send your idea to one of those "help you patent" outfits- I did, and didn't have the money to follow through with a patent on my own- now a major company is making a knock off of my invention! if your idea is something totally new, then you need to figure out how to develop it your own- learn how to build it so you can see if it's a really valid idea. if an improvement to something that already exists you may be able to patent "improvement to prior art"- either way a good place to start is:\n\nhttp://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html\n\nlook to see if anything already exists like your idea, and if not then start development!
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Do your own search at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)\nhttp://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/search-adv.htm\n\nTry this search for starters:\nTTL/(saw OR trimmer)
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Never heard of it, but that sounds interesting...\n\n\nYou probably can do a search of it on the patent office website.
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If it's a really good idea, I'd get a patent on it first... If you call carrier all those dirty crooks will do is steal your idea and make tons of money off it.
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Get a patent lawyer.  No other way to go.  Don't contact the "invention submission" groups, they only seek to use others ideas for their own profit.  If you belive your invention has profit value, get a patent lawyer and get your idea protected the right way.
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that's sweet here i think is a link for a patent. I was thinking on how to make something like that, accelerating itself but i failed :P another of my questions was proven wrong leading me to the conclusion it is impossible for magnets to be used in mine.\n\nhttp://www.inventhelp.com/contactform_patent.asp?id=106&wcw=overture&GCID=S17330x002&KEYWORD=patent+office&MATCHTYPE=search
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Be careful to avoid public disclosure of any valid invention until you have protected it, especially by a patent application.  I believe that in the US a patent must be applied for within one year of public disclosure or it will be lost into the public domain.  Patent attorneys can advise you how to document your device and establish priority (first inventor) and have a patent search conducted to insure your invention is original and does not infringe other devices.\n\nThat said, it is a principle of physics that energy can neither be created nor destroyed (by normal means).  A patent application would have to identify the source of energy for your system and any energy conversions that take place to obtain a useful effect.  For example, a flashlight uses a battery (energy source) to obtain electrical energy (electricity) which is converted into heat energy in the lighbulb's glowing filament which in turn is converted to light energy.  The battery is used up.  A solar cell can also be used (but not at night).  All steps are clearly understood.  Good luck.
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Patent it when you do make one, All the Best.
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sounds like you want to add on to an existing patent from the aviation industry. that can be done, it is however pretty difficult for the little guy to deal with the big companies. if you can find a good quality patent attorney and a business attorney that would be a start. you will also need big dollars to start.\n\ni have seen some great inventions go nowhere because industry needs a cost benefit analysis that proves to them that they will make incredible profits from your idea. \n\nsome guy invented a tail light that pulsed with the application of the brakes and varied based upon the speed of deacceleration. awesome product used on motorcycles and it was also tested in taxicabs. he could not interest the automakers. it would be saving lives and accidents today.
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If your idea is truly unique you should look to get a patent before showing to anyone.  You should also make sure nobody else patented it.  Find a good patent lawyer.\n\nOnce you have this you can approach companies. There are many ways to profit on your idea and it may not be just one way and often depends on the needs of the specific company.
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As a patent holder let me give you some advice here:\n(1) You may be hungry - pull your belt tight and try to wait it out\n(2) Register your patent ASAP - say ZERO to anyone else\n(3) Once your patent is registered, when you talk to companies make then sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement with Breach Guarantee where they have to register with a Bond agent that will secure a bond of say $5million, $10million or whatever you think your patent is worth and have it in the NDA that if they develop or reverse engineer or anything along those lines a product that is or mimics or competes with your product and idea, they are in Breach and have to pay you the bond money.\n\nNow, a final word of advice.  BUILD the item.  Have a unit as a demo.  Do not just write an idea down.  Once you have it built, price out the parts and the item and figure out how to replicate it cheaply over and over again.  Then make a few extra prototypes. Start up your own company and offer the product for sale.\n\nOnce you have a physical product that backs up a patent and you offer it for sale, you win in court all the time.  Now that you have it available for sale and can replicate it, now is the time to persue other companies for the product.\n\nIf you start to get SALES on your product, do press releases, make updates and upgrades, and try to get as much press as possible.  Go on Tech TV shows and promote yourself.  Once you become a NAME your idea now becomes a hot property and people will pay you for it.\n\nAt no point in time should you EVER think that you are going to make money overnight by making a patent.  I learned that lesson the hard way.
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Do visit the the following site and type the mechanism you want or the name of the machine\nhttp://www.howstuffworks.com\n\nother useful sites are\nhttp://www.answers.com\nhttp://www.wikipedia.org
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You might contact those stores. If the idea can make $$$, get a patent or copyright before you approach them-- otherwise they will steal your idea.
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Ahh an inventor that wants to become rich... Definatley a time machine so I could go back and fix my mistakes, or a "beam me up scotty teleporter". That most probabley wont help you, but thats what I think would be cool. Heidi
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You can make any simple machine having fulcrum, load and effort or u can even make a pulley.(These r very cheap and easy to make)\n\nFor ur project on universe u can get information from any encyclopedia or search in net.