Jerry Stuckle wrote in news:m3qi1d$bpp$1@dont-
email.me:

No, just insure if you come up with a good idea that you have the means
to patent it first. A patent attorney friend told me a typical patent
search (required before filing) starts at around $20K U.S. - and can
easily reach six figures for a more complex search.

Of course, you can do it on your own. But even if you get the patent,
you could lose it (and all the money you spent) if your search were not
thorough.



If you were Sysiphus, pushing boulders up a mountyain only to roll it down
and start again, would you also do if if the moment you showed your head out
of your shack, snipers would red mist you head? Hell no. Any soldire would
say there are some points where no matter what any other idiot says, you keep
your head down. I'm ok with that.