Was it a knee-jerk reaction to infringement or a clever PR stunt? As an inventor who spent years getting patents and trademarks I would never go the crowd sourcing route for a product I really thought had a lot of potential. When you do it yourself you get a list of all prior art and you know what you're dealing with in advance.
@Summer - it's harder to do things for free when people are struggling to pay bills. These days you have to work twice as hard for half the money. Who has time or energy left to work for free, even if it's something you enjoy doing?
@Summer - it's harder to do things for free when people are struggling to pay bills. These days you have to work twice as hard for half the money. Who has time or energy left to work for free, even if it's something you enjoy doing?
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Was it a knee-jerk reaction to infringement or a clever PR stunt? As an inventor who spent years getting patents and trademarks I would never go the crowd sourcing route for a product I really thought had a lot of potential. When you do it yourself you get a list of all prior art and you know what you're dealing with in advance.
free
@Summer - it's harder to do things for free when people are struggling to pay bills. These days you have to work twice as hard for half the money. Who has time or energy left to work for free, even if it's something you enjoy doing?
free
@Summer - it's harder to do things for free when people are struggling to pay bills. These days you have to work twice as hard for half the money. Who has time or energy left to work for free, even if it's something you enjoy doing?