How do I legally claim an idea?

To qualify for the right, a person must file an application describing the invention in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. After the office determines that the invention is in fact new, it will issue a patent, a process that takes about two years.

What are the 4 ways companies protect intellectual property?

The four primary ways to protect intellectual property are:

• Copyrights.
• Trademarks.
• Patents.
• Trade secrets.

How do you share an idea to a company?

Three Steps to Selling Your Idea

1. Know your market. This means gathering as much feedback as possible on your own invention idea.
2. Do some legal legwork. Go as far as you can to determine if your invention is patentable or if it can be produced without infringement on other filed patents.
3. Look into production.

Why you should register your intellectual property?

If you have an original product, invention, or artistic work, it’s essential for you to register a patent and/or copyright under your name. This is to prevent others from copying your work, product or invention and to derive economic benefit and moral rights therefrom.

How do you sell an idea to a big company?

Can a big company take any idea and run with it?

Just to explain an apparent contradiction between points 4 and 6: legally the big company can take anybody’s idea and run with it, because nobody owns an idea; but big companies don’t want to deal with the accusation or even the bad karma of actually doing that. Who wants the negative press? It’s way better to just not ever respond to you.

How do I approach a big company for a business idea?

If you are going to approach a big company, put in all the footwork first, get your intellectual property protected. Why not contact 1,000 people and pitch your idea. Maybe some one will steal it.

Do you legally own an idea?

And then, to make matters worse, there’s the problem of ownership: even if you did think up that great idea, originally, you don’t own it. You can’t legally own an idea. Patents protect inventions, not ideas (see points 1 and 2 above); copyright protects creative works; and trademark protects commercial communications.

Is it possible to partner up with someone to implement an idea?

Probably not the answer you’re looking for, but companies have so many unimplemented ideas that the likelihood of partnering to implement someone else’s idea is really low. And besides which, the idea is not something that has much value in and of itself. If you’re passionate in the idea, build it yourself.