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Ask Reddit: How do you file your patents?

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If you've ever filed a patent, how did you do it? Did you just hire a patent attorney, or are there any cheaper shortcuts? How much did it cost?

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I don't know what exactly you're looking for, but everybody I know who has filed patents, has done so via provisional patents first (cheap and easy, and gives you a year to file full patent, AFAIK).

That's US patents only, don't know about other regions, or filing non-provisional patents.

Dugg for 'Ask Reddit.'

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Heh. How embarassing...

So far we have 5 comments related to the Ask Reddit bit and not a single answer to the actual question. This is sad.

I'm sorry, and forgive my presumptuousness, but...did you title this Ask Reddit??

At first, I thought this was sarcasm; too many people submit questions that are trivial or can easily be googled.

Not sure though...

This is not Reddit!

This is Spartaa!!! er Hacker News....

(don't neg me, sorry I couldn't resist)

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