Luckily our founding founders recognized the need to establish protection for intellectual property. They saw that if a person used their mind to create a new idea, that idea had value and should be protected from theft or misuse the same as a horse or a house. Since the patent office was established, we have had a patent attorney ready to assist an individual in registering their invention. The fist thing that has to be done is a patent search to insure that some else has not registered the idea or one close to it before. It is not only a protection for you but for others as well.