Any patent lawyers on the board?

[Fat Elvis]

Originally Posted by FAX

I'm going to have to disagree with your disagreement, Mr. ClevelandBronco. I was one of the founders of a company that acquired a process patent. I remember it well because it cost us a bloody fortune. In our case, it was a video production process that utilized existing technologies (hardware and software). The process, however, was deemed sufficiently unique that the patent was awarded.

FAX

Mr. Fax, you may well be my new BFF. The particular process that I am thinking about patenting utilizes existing hardware and software, but my method utilizes it in a field that is completely unrelated to what it was originally intended, and it is unique within the field that I would apply the process.