Originally Posted by
momto5
Talk to a patent attorney before you do anything, including telling anyone what you have invented. Let him (or her) guide your next steps so you don't lose out on anything. Good luck!
I have an interesting story. My daughter ran into someone from high school who did home maintenance work for a company. He told her about going to a huge, beautiful house only to find the owner was a former classmate, and they all were in their late-20s. So he asked how they were able to afford the house at their ages. The other guy told him that a few years prior he and some buddies were drinking, messing around with glue and crayons. Somehow they figured out how to mix them together to create colored glue. One of them had the sense to contact a patent attorney and developed the patent. A couple of years later a large company came out with colored glue, the guys sued them, and won.
Get the patent!,