Leo Lex
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Hello. Me and my grandfather both suffer from a particular affliction. To solve this problem he and I made a toilet that mitigates the problem. In doing so we came with a design for a superior toilet. Better in nigh every way then the conventional western toilets. My grandfather being once a successful businessman in aluminum wanted to patent the invention.
We got an opinion from a Doctor in the field who has patented inventions, he asked 3 questions. What was the idea, how will you get medical permits, what will you do about the Chinese? We had an answer for the first two questions but the last had us stomped. The doctor said no matter how good our ideas were it meant nothing if after it is popular the Chinese would copy it and we would not see a dime.
Then we talked to 3 other inventor friends of my Grandfather, they said the same thing.
I am curious, have any of you run into the same problem concerning patents and the Chinese?
If you did, did you solve them, how?
We got an opinion from a Doctor in the field who has patented inventions, he asked 3 questions. What was the idea, how will you get medical permits, what will you do about the Chinese? We had an answer for the first two questions but the last had us stomped. The doctor said no matter how good our ideas were it meant nothing if after it is popular the Chinese would copy it and we would not see a dime.
Then we talked to 3 other inventor friends of my Grandfather, they said the same thing.
I am curious, have any of you run into the same problem concerning patents and the Chinese?
If you did, did you solve them, how?
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