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Advice about getting a patent is not one size fits all.

When you talk about getting patents, protecting your intellectual property, and your physical prototypes, etc.

It's something that I've had to get schooled on myself because I don't know a lot.

I'm not a lawyer by background, but at least now, after a couple of years of doing this and talking with people,

I know what I don't know.

Okay? So it's taking me a while, but I think I actually have a decent answer to this question,

which comes up from time to time.

Today, the question comes from Rebecca, but I also want to give a shout out to Karen Wade-Kavanaugh in Boston.

Karen is one of my go-to patent attorney experts that have helped me out over the years.

So thank you, Karen. Thanks to anybody else who has sent me an email saying,

here's what you really need to know.

So let's hear the question.

By the way, this is Chris Killapoe. You're listening to Sideosal School.

The question is, should I hire a lawyer and get a patent?

But let's hear it directly from Rebecca.

Hi, Chris. My name is Rebecca, and I live in Los Angeles.

I've been listening to your show and loving it for over a year.

I have an idea that I can't stop thinking about.

I've wanted and needed and thought about this item for over a decade to solve an everyday problem,

but your show has finally inspired me to take action.

I know I could sell at least a few of these as I've made some makeshift ones

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