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Originally Posted by Dick Bull
thing is I have the logistics down. In fact I have a meeting with a guy who can transfer his shop to deal with the conversion. TBH, there's 1 thing seperating me from sinking some money into this and that is wheter or not someone's gotten this idea patented.
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When seeking to secure rights to intellectual property, particularly a patent, you would be well served to involve an attorney as soon as possible, if for no other reason than their fiduciary duty would keep them from taking whatever details you converse about and running off to patent something himself.
If you really want to minimize expenditures, you can follow the recommendations of the patent and trademark office
http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process/search/
All patents are online and fully searchable.
It's gonna eat up a shit ton of your time, and still may not find things you need to be aware of, due to the sheer volume of the databases.