The specific evidence is known as prior art that would show that you were in fact the first to invent something. Prior art refers to the entire body of publicly available information that can potentially invalidate a patent by showing that its ideas were known by a particular date (in this case, by you).
If you had information showing that you invented something before the larger company, you could actually invalidate the larger company's patent. This is particularly important in the United States because we are a "first to invent" company, not a "first to file".
There are plenty of services out there, which allow you to do that. (One of which I work at: Article One Partners).
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The specific evidence is known as prior art that would show that you were in fact the first to invent something. Prior art refers to the entire body of publicly available information that can potentially invalidate a patent by showing that its ideas were known by a particular date (in this case, by you).
If you had information showing that you invented something before the larger company, you could actually invalidate the larger company's patent. This is particularly important in the United States because we are a "first to invent" company, not a "first to file".
There are plenty of services out there, which allow you to do that. (One of which I work at: Article One Partners).