How to go about creating a product from scratch?

[ghart999]

No, I've been through the patent process and this has zero weight. All the Patent Office cares about is when you submitted the patent application.

The very first thing you do is a patent search. Identify similar patents and determine what makes yours unique.

This is true. Never has this ever worked with the patent office to prove an invention date. You simply need a lab book that's signed, dated and notarized. Emails to your self disclosing the invention, etc.

 

[socalboomer]

I think he was confusing copyright with patent.

Patent relies on filing, yes? While copyright relies on the written or recorded work, so having a record of the original work along with verified date is valuable. You don't actually have to file for copyright.

Not a lawyer, but have friends who have been through the patent process and another who had a work plagiarized and sued. I picked up things, prolly wrong things, but...

 

[ghart999]

This is true. Never has this ever worked with the patent office to prove an invention date. You simply need a lab book that's signed, dated and notarized. Emails to your self disclosing the invention, etc.

Again, this is fruitless now with the patent law changes. Proof of earlier invention date means nothing. Its all about who filed first.