Three years ago, we started the process of protecting that shape, that unique shape, with a patent.

Now, something very, very important to know about patents.

I think this applies to utility and design patents.

You have to apply for your patent within 365 days of the day it first became available for purchase by the public.

What's up guys? You're listening to another episode of Selling on Amazon with Andy Isam.

Our patent finally got approved three years later.

This has been, man, this has been quite the process.

And I've been talking more and more about this in my weekly live Q&A call with my coaching program students.

And I've talked about it a little bit on Instagram as well. And so a lot of people have been

messaging me on Instagram saying, hey, can you do an episode talking more about your copyright

protection and your patent protection? So the episode today is going to be focused more on our

patent. And the next episode is going to be more focused on

copywriting and that whole process that we went through because we learned a lot during that

process as well. So again, today I want to talk about our patent. So before we dive into kind of

the process that we went through and kind of our back and forth. Let's just talk about the different

types of patents. Technically, there are three different types of patents. And right here, I'm on the

USPTO.gov website. You can see there's a utility patent, a design patent, and a plant

patent. A plant patent protects like the invention of a new species of plant. Or you like you'll see at

the grocery store, they'll come up with like new modified fruits and vegetables and, you know,

that sort of stuff. So you can actually protect that. So if you're a scientist who comes up with

your own types of plants, you can do a patent for your

plant. But again, the most common are utility and design patents. So a utility patent protects,

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