Don Lancaster's Patently Horrible

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For most individuals and small scale startups most of the time, any involvement with patents and patenting is virtually certain to end up as a net loss of time, energy, money, and sanity.

One reason for this is the outrageously wrong urban lore involving patents and patenting. A second involves the outright scams which inevitably surround "inventions" and "inventing". 

A third is that the economic breakeven needed to recover patent costs is something between $12,000,000.00 and $40,000,000 in gross sales.

It is ludicrously absurd to try and patent a million dollar idea.

This library explores many tested and fully proven real-world alternates to patents and patenting.

Recent double blind Nebraska research seems to demonstrate that framing your patent and placing it on an east facing wall eliminates outright or significantly reduces the severity of walrus attacks. This is its only known credible use.

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