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If you have created something, you will want to protect it at all costs. You will not want anyone else to steal your idea. This means that you will need to get a patent. A patent is a legal document that lays out what it is that you have created. It gives you the full rights to the product and says that no one else can steal your idea and then try to sell the same product. Otherwise, inventions would be useless to those who came up with them. Everyone else would just steal their ideas and make their own; patents are a way of making sure that the people who create things are the ones who get the credit and the money that comes with them.

If you are just getting a patent, it is a good idea to get a patent law attorney. They will help you to make sure that you do all of the paperwork correctly. If you leave out even the smallest thing, it could be enough to keep you from protecting what you have made. It may give other people a loophole that they can exploit to steal your idea even though you have purchased the patent. A lawyer will be able to go over your work to make sure that you have not made this sort of mistake and left yourself vulnerable. Paying for their work will be well worth it since it will enable you to make so much more money off of your creation in the long run. It pays to be safe.

The other way that a patent law lawyer can help you is if you think that someone else has infringed upon your patent. You may have created something, gotten a solid patent, and began selling it. Then, you may see that someone else is making the same product illegally. You will need to take them to court. You can sue them for stealing your idea, breaking the patent laws, and taking your revenue -- after all, any money that they made by selling their product should really have been yours. A patent law attorney will be able to go in the courtroom and prove that you are in the right and the other person is in the wrong. It is wise to get the same patent law lawyer for both of the processes described above so that they will have full knowledge of your situation.

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