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Originally Posted by dtengineering

P.S. As to the "mail it to yourself" suggestion, not only are there far, far better ways to protect an invention (such as filing a low cost provisional patent) but that in 2013 the USA will finally catch up to the rest of the world and change from a "first to invent" to a "first to file" system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_t...irst_to_invent

Does that provisional patent cost as little as a postage stamp and an envelope?

In all seriousness, so long as the patent is filed for before March 16, 2013, the first to invent system would still hold true.

Thanks for posting that link though. It made for a really interesting read.