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Happy to help.
Other option, is to learn how to do it yourself.
One key thing to remember, patents are only effective if you have the money to defend them, and that they don't cover prior work (if anybody can prove that your patent covers something that was in the public domain prior to your patent application, then your patent is worthless). The only people who usually get rich from patents, are those trying to convince you that you need one, and lawyers trying to defend them.
Being first to market with an innovative product before the competition can catch up, will usually be more profitable, than wasting money trying to defend patents.
Don't waste your time trying to protect your IP, instead focus all of your energies into making a prototype and getting it into the hands of people who might be interested in using it.
Most companies don't fail because everyone steals their idea, they fail because no one wants to buy their product.
Anyway, something like a guitar rack will not be patentable anyway (you can only get a patent granted on a novel and inventive technical feature). You might want to protect the look or appearance of it though, in that case you'd be looking at design rights.
His attitude was, while the competition were playing catchup trying to copy his latest product and ultimately undercut him, he was already working on the next version. He made his profit from innovation. His competition made theirs from mass producing.
You have to consider is your idea really worth the cost to patent?
If it's something where profit is going to be measured at most in tens of thousands over a few years, it probably isn't. If it could be worth millions, then it's probably worth it.
If you have a good idea then you need to build a prototype yourself or tell someone else your idea and get them to do it. How you do that depends on the top of product. People like myself tend to build prototypes of electronic devices using veroboard and project boxes. then that prototype needs testing over a year or so to iron out any flaws ... then you can take it to a contract manufacturer.
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if you have an idea that is worth allot of money then protect it, it will at least let you send cease and desist letter.
but I can't think of any music products that are worth allot of money now other than maybe the tech behind kempers etc you decide
but a NDA with a designer should get you started and at least you can thrash out the idea and decide if you want to proceed with a patent.
I hold one patent myself and several items I have designed are patented under another companies ownership, these patents have been worth allot to the owners and have protected the market for them.
No it isn't (and I speak as someone who holds patents)
Patents can be valuable, but rarely to private individuals who have product ideas.
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Luckily I had a skill set that allowed me to jump into a design engineer role!