Real life business problem

[mossbacked]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Patent seems the only way, even if you were to produce overseas it would be a matter of a few months while they reverse engineer your design.

Over the years I've trademarked several items, but patent law is a field where I have little experience. Are you thinking if we produce overseas without a patent, they will tend to produce and sell against us because we didn't protect it?

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by mossbacked

Over the years I've trademarked several items, but patent law is a field where I have little experience. Are you thinking if we produce overseas without a patent, they will tend to produce and sell against us because we didn't protect it?

A patent at least gives you some basis in the law, although the process is time consuming, hence the "patent pending" notation.

I doubt it would stop the Chinese, note the reference that nine ou of ten users of Microsoft programs are illegal copies, even within their government.

As for protection, I prduced a 900 page workbook on a forthcoming telephone networking standard and it had "Copyright my name" on every page. While attending a conference on this subject I had a professor from IIT tell me how much he admired my work and that he was using it in his classes. IIT never paid me a dime.