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Too much sink & cupboards


So I designed a Corner Triangle system that is multi functional..It has a hand held shower hose for the only water supply..A Portable in & out sink,a portaloo in bottom.A backsplash of tin...A removable Triangle bench also for food preps make this 2 ft X 2 ft area is a 5 in 1 functions.No cupboards & no doors

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Hi Erilala

Welcome to the forum

Is there any chance of a few pics, of what you have done, it may give some of us, some ideas for the future

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It's being patented

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Gee you mean outright THEFT-!!! My relative is a Lawyer/ Builder whose made 3 protypes to show Jayco next week,byeee



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What a strange thread!confuse



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-"" it may give some of us,some ideas for the future-" why would a smart person Give Away ideas-??""



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Why even bother to mention it?biggrin



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Why do you persist with dumb comments-?

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Gee you mean outright THEFT-!!! My relative is a Lawyer/ Builder whose made 3 protypes to show Jayco next week,byeee
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it may give some of us,some ideas for the future-" why would a smart person Give Away ideas-??

Sorry I asked for a pic, so please have a nice day

I can assure you, that the Grey Nomad forum members, I have met so far

Are not the sort of people, who would steal another persons idea of making a

Corner Triangle system that is multi functional..It has a hand held shower hose for the only water supply..A Portable in & out sink,a portaloo in bottom.A backsplash of tin...A removable Triangle bench also for food preps make this 2 ft X 2 ft area is a 5 in 1 functions.No cupboards & no doors

Just in case you are unaware, Australia went to the metric system of measurement in 1974, so you will probably have to change your 2 ft X 2 ft area 

The patent office would probably like to see something like 0.6096 Metres X 0.6096 Metres, or 60.96 Centimetres X 60.96 Centimetres, or 609.6 Millimetres X 609.6 Millimetres

 

 

 



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It's being patented

Intellectual property was a significant part of my previous employment. Do you have any idea what a full patent costs? And I doubt very much if it is patentable anyhow. This sounds like a "development" not a patentable new concept. A registered design may be worthwhile, but that is very different from a patent.

If it is patented, you then need to be capable of prosecuting someone who breaches that patent. If you don't have the financial capability to do that you are wasting your money patenting it in the first place.

Here is a better overhead cupboard arrangement you can all have for free. biggrin New and different? Yes. Patentable? Maybe? Worth patenting? No.

A 13 second video clip.

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I'm quite sure a Lawyer who is also a Builder is extremely well educated & qualified to-" millimetre-" everything"

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Erilala wrote:

I'm quite sure a Lawyer who is also a Builder is extremely well educated & qualified to-" millimetre-" everything"


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 Triangle bench also for food preps make this 2 ft X 2 ft area is a 5 in 1 functions

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I must be mistaken then, but I always thought, that ft was an abbreviation for foot/feet, as in 1 foot = 12 inches, 2 feet = 24 inches type of measurements



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Peter_n_Margaret wrote:

It's being patented

Intellectual property was a significant part of my previous employment. Do you have any idea what a full patent costs? And I doubt very much if it is patentable anyhow. This sounds like a "development" not a patentable new concept. A registered design may be worthwhile, but that is very different from a patent.

If it is patented, you then need to be capable of prosecuting someone who breaches that patent. If you don't have the financial capability to do that you are wasting your money patenting it in the first place.


 

Spot on.

Full patents are almost always a waste of time and money for small business. The patent takes an age to obtain, is expensive and will normally have patent attorney fees on the top. And in the meantime the Chinese, who don't give a toss about your patent application, have already manufactured the product and are selling it.

On top of all that; once you obtain your patent and a large company infringes it the cost of proving that in court is astronomical and way, way beyond small business.

There use to be, in Australia, something called an "Innovation Patent" which had some small merit - I don't know if it still exists.

I gave up on patents years ago and, instead, concentrated on niche areas where the big boys were not interested.



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Picked to death by the -" beakers-"

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Mike Harding wrote:
And in the meantime the Chinese, who don't give a toss about your patent application, have already manufactured the product and are selling it.

 Actually, a patent does not stop someone making something, it stops them selling it in the country or countries covered by the patent, so a patent taken out for Australia (for instance) effectively stops the Chinese (or anyone else) from selling the product in Australia (but no where else) without a license agreement from the patent owner.

A full "world wide" patent used to cost in excess of $100,000 to establish 25 years ago, plus the ongoing annual fees. It won't be less now. There are much cheaper ways to get coverage, but if there is a breach or a challenge, the full fees for the patent plus the court costs of defending it must all be paid eventually if the cover is to be maintained.

It is also quite legal to manufacture ONE ONLY of a patented product for your own personal use, but you may not sell it (or even give it away) to someone else.

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My understanding is there is no such thing as a world wide patent. I think there is agreement between the major industrial countries that they will recognise the validity of each other's patents but you need to register it in the foreign country for that to happen - no doubt this process requires fees and lawyers (= more fees).

I'll leave patents to the multi-nationals.



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"World wide".
Correct.
There are groups of countries that you can choose to use or not and others that are separate, so for maximum coverage the application needs to be submitted multiple times in multiple jurisdictions. That is one of the reasons it becomes so expensive.
It is only the countries that the product will be sold in that need to be covered though, so for an RV product you would typically choose USA and Europe first off. Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand etc become relatively minor additional choices depending on the product.
Cheers,
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Agree with Santa ! What a tosser !!

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Mmm so you are going to prepare food on top of the loo ?

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I think this thread should be moved to "Just Joking" Forum - It has amused me.

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