I’m asking this for my boyfriend who doesn’t use reddit. He’s in the fishing industry and has this brilliant idea for a tool that fisherman use everyday – but a much better version of it that would make the use of this tool much easier to use. It doesn’t exist yet, we checked. The problem is he (and I) have ZERO clue on how to get this going… I know that he needs to build or create some sort of prototype, right? Is there a company that can help with this? I know there are these “invention help” companies that exist, but are they legit? If they are legit, are there some that are considered better? How do they work and make money? Sorry if I’m just spewing a bunch of questions but I’m just at a loss when it comes to this stuff. I really want to help him make this a reality because he’s struggling financially at times and I just have this deep-down feeling that this could really be a great thing not only for him, but for the fishing industry in general. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Fees and lawyer costed us $15k, that was for only the US patent…but even then you have to find a company to make and sell you product… (that is where we had no luck)… To get a global patent so it can’t be copied in another country (from what we was told would have been an additional $50k). We never tried to take it that far after afterwards.
Each country is whole new patent filing process so yeah, it can get extra expensive. And then are you going to sue people for infringement in that country at the end of the day? That’s the big question.