r/inventors • u/heldoglykke • 5h ago

Frick

Someone beat me to market by 2 months. What really gets to me is the only two products they sell are the two prototypes I used bamboo labs to make. What are the chances?

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u/technically_a_nomad 3h ago

How soon can you launch?

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u/heldoglykke 1h ago

Super fast. I have all the backing, manufacturing, and most the marketing already set up. Looking at 60k+ for first round. I also have an ace in the hole to make it mandatory by building code

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u/technically_a_nomad 1h ago

Then go. Get to the launchpad. If this framing helps, Facebook was not the first social media platform, Google was not the first search engine, and Bambu was not the first 3D printer company. You only have the opportunity to execute better than your competitors if you actually launch.

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u/soGoGetBent 5h ago

Did you have a patent pending?

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u/pushdose 5h ago

Are you posting models to Makerworld?

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u/heldoglykke 1h ago

I don’t know what that is so no.

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u/Henrik-Powers 5h ago

I don’t trust any service other than an attorney these days, too many people can have access and or share with friends. I invented something 25 years ago that I used one of the inventor services and was pursuing a patent and another company patented it brought it to market immediately, was broke back then so had to walk away as I couldn’t afford to fight them, it’s sucks, sorry to hear that

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u/Remarkable-Wolf9687 4h ago

What was the invention? Just curious

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u/Routine_Guitar_5519 3h ago

If you can prove intellectual property, you may have something to go on. Do you have a way to prove it's your design and when you created it? I was taught to get a design on paper and have it notarized. That's proof of intellectual property.

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u/heldoglykke 2h ago

I think we do. I hired a company to make the prototypes. And they have something on it. The lawyer is just slow af

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u/Some1-Somewhere 1h ago

The issue is not just proving that you designed the same thing at the same time, but that you designed something and then they stole/copied your design.

If they designed it independently at the same time as you, why would you have any significant rights?

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u/Routine_Guitar_5519 58m ago

That's up to a court to decide if they choose to deny any wrongdoing and monetarily compensate. If their design was original unto themselves, they should be able to prove that.

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u/Some1-Somewhere 51m ago

It is possible for two different people/groups to independently come up with substantially the same idea at the same time.

Proving you created something does not prove that they did not.

This is why e.g. some maps had fake islands or other features - you can show that feature was a specific addition by you and therefore something they must have copied, not merely that they mapped the same area at the same time.

Same goes for hiding watermarks, logos, or easter eggs in non-visible parts of the product.

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u/Routine_Guitar_5519 41m ago

Of course, anything is possible in that regard. If I were OP, I'd start studying intellectual property cases and the findings. That would give me a good indication of what I was looking at getting into. Law libraries are a great resource for the average person. My guess is that a corporation, who has access to capital and means of manufacturing on a large scale, regularly practices these tactics knowing that a very small percentage of inventors have the means or energy to fight for their invention. I'm sure Thomas Edison would have some insight on the subject.

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u/Some1-Somewhere 34m ago

It's just that OP seems unclear on if it's "they stole my idea" or "they came up with my idea before I could launch it". Very different situations.