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there is no easy way.
I am not a lawyer; I am an artist who has done patent drawings. You cannot copyright an idea. You need a lawyer/agent to present your patented inventions to companies, however having a patent(s) and a lawyer will not insure you.
Case in point, my friend the lawyer who has 4 patents on a very unique thing, took all the steps required to protect himself and still had a terrible fight on his hands over his invention. The invention was so huge there was no way to make a prototype, so by the time he had 2 patents he had an animated film made of his invention, which was distributed to the interested companies. There were no takers - but a year later a famous company he'd talked to unveiled his invention to the world as their own. The company did interviews on national television explaining how they'd arrived at such a great idea. The invention was extremely popular, touted now, 4 years later, as the best and most exciting of its kind.
My friend sued the company, having by then 4 patents on the invention, and after years in court and very expensive atty. fees, my friend has a small victory but not much in the way of a settlement. I would imagine that the invention has brought millions and millions of dollars to the company that stole it, none of which my friend will see.
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