If you look further, there is a smiley face, plus coming off his head, it says reactions
if you go there.
It says raise hand.
Although I'm looking at you and if I can see you, I can see you raise your hand.
Teresa is ready to testify.
Let me get you spotlighted.
Unmute.
I love that smile, Teresa.
Okay, you have to unmute.
I'm going to ask you to unmute.
Honey, hold on.
I need you to unmute.
Oh, sorry.
I thought I unmuted.
Okay.
So, this was definitely worth it.
But man, there's so much.
You never even think about it until, you know, somebody tells you, you know, I mean, I've
been putting, most of us have, putting all over Facebook of our grandkids, of our kids,
of our vacations, you know, everything, all our life.
You know, you see my husband in the background.
Anyway, been putting photos on, you know, everything, you know, I mean, and everything
else, you know, and I have a little saying that I say that I learned, well, I didn't
learn it, I came, well, the Holy Spirit gave me, I get to say that, gave me a little saying,
back when my, when my grandkids, my older grandkids were younger, to help them with
nightmares at night.
And so, I realized that that saying that I've been saying, the Holy Spirit gave it to me,
and that that's probably something that, you know, I could have protected, you know, it's
like, wow, I didn't even think of something like that, you know, it's like, wow.
So, I mean, it's, it's really, you know, there's so many things you don't realize that
you should protect.
It's like, yeah, I know.
I was gonna say, don't tell us what the slogan is, but you're telling us, you have a little
saying that is true, Teresa.
Yeah, yeah.
And it's like, it's, that's just so, you know, you don't think of these things, you know,
but I've been using this, this saying, this slogan, or whatever.
It's a, it's just like a little blessing, you know, on everybody.
You know, I don't, I don't mind, you know, people using it, I've told them, you know,
it's just that, you know, you got to think about what does the Holy Spirit want you to
share, and, you know, and let other people use and what, you know, so it's like, you
just don't, it's like, wow, it's just so much.
So yeah, this was definitely worth it.
I learned a lot.
And yeah, so before I actually put my website out because it has a lot of pictures of my
daughter, and my grandson because he was born at 25 weeks.
So, yeah, so there's a lot of photos of him and I got to make sure that those photos are
not, you know, used for, you know, I mean, she did give permission for one of the pro
life sites to use it, she gave written permission to them to use his photos.
So it's like, wow, you know, you just don't think of these things.
So I just want to thank Peter and you guys for everything, man, this is definitely worth it.
Thank you so much for sharing.
We totally appreciate that.
And anyone else who has got a reason why they are so thankful that this was worth it to
you, raise your virtual hand or shake at me.
Tracy, let me get your spotlight and I'll go ahead and unmute.
Tell us why this was so worth it to you already.
Well, I told you, did you get my email by the way?
Just so I know if my emails are working yet?
No.
That's a question for Ray.
I will open up right now.
Apparently you did.
It's okay.
I can take a look and I'll respond.
Well, you can, yeah, you can respond later.
I mean, I don't want to hold this up.
Wow, yeah, I can never tell when something is going through or not.
So I said a lot of it in there.
I'm just so thrilled that somebody with so much expertise has such a heart to help so many of us.
And yeah, it's been, there's so much information that you know you're going to save tens of thousands minimally or hundreds of thousands, depending on what your vision is for the future and legal fees and so forth.
You know, really, it's, it's.
It's just so helpful.
So much good information and then food for thought
because you don't even, I don't even think that way.
I think in a little bit, but not that much
about how much to protect yourself
just to avoid the hassles later.
So it's been a true wealth of information
and the way it's given, again, with such clarity
and just to hear it from somebody who you feel
whose heart is really in the right place
to help so many people and empower them in a healthy way
is beautiful to me.
And so thank you and I bless it.
Beautiful.
Thank you, Tracy.
That was what we, it just shows we're doing the right thing.
That Peter is, his heart is there.
Like, yeah, I can't, I can't avoid that fact.
I can't avoid that fact.
It's beautiful.
Yeah, thank you.
And for all of you, thank you very much.
So good.
Look in and how about one more, Connie?
You've got a testimony to give us.
Let me get you spotlighted and you can unmute
and tell us your blown away goodness moment.
Well, first I wanna say something that Teresa was talking.
When she said, ask the Holy Spirit,
in these years where I didn't have Peter,
I had to rely on the Holy Spirit.
And the word of God says something.
And if you're not Christian, I'm sorry if this bothers you,
but seriously, he says to a king at one point,
God does, he says, you know,
because you let them see everything,
it's all gonna be taken from you.
And it was, you know, it was wealth.
It was his everything, his whole kingdom.
And so every now and then I would be wanting
to share something and God would be like,
do you remember?
Do you remember?
So, and there have been times when I was first online
where people would ask and I'd say a little something
and man, that check would be there.
And I've been in meetings where I was the guest speaker
and I was like, no, I can't talk about that.
You know, so what little I had was a lot
because it came from God, right?
But Peter's opening my eyes to all the little ways
and there's just no end.
I know you want specifics, but I think I've given some,
but you guys have no idea.
I've been doing this for several years
and I'm like, oh crap, oh crap.
You know, there's so many little tiny things.
Even if I did something good here,
oh, look at that there, like the non-compete,
not having that.
I don't even remember thinking about that.
But as soon as he said it, I was like,
I know of an incident where I should have been more careful
with somebody and made sure they signed something like that.
So.
Awesome.
Thank you so much, Connie, for sharing that.
Thank you all for sharing that.
It's really, it really hits home.
It's one of the reasons why we created this
is just we saw so many people running into problems.
And you know, when you're given certain gift things,
you're supposed to provide those
for the wellbeing of others, right?
So one saying I always say is like,
if you get to the top of the mountain and you're alone,
you did something wrong.
You shouldn't be at the top of the mountain by yourself,
you know, and everybody's always striving
to get to the top of the mountain.
And, hey, that's awesome if you've got that aggressiveness,
but if you're there and you're enjoying the view
and you look to the left and right
and nobody's next to you, it's really lonely.
You should be lifting up to other people with you.
And so hopefully as you're all learning these things,
you're also sharing with others, right?
As you're coaching other people, you're sharing with others.
You say to them, when you see somebody struggling
and saying, oh my gosh, I come up with this great name,
but I'm not making a product that you say,
hey, there's a thing called the Section 1B
trademark application called an intent to use application.
So you can file now and nobody can ever take your name.
They're gonna go, what?
What in the world are you talking about?
And that's because you've obtained
that level of knowledge here.
So that's the hope.
The hope is that we're equipping you with certain tools
that are gonna make it so that you become.
more valuable to the people who are around you,
because your own experiences,
your own scars become pathways for other people.
Your own experiences become guidance for other people.
And so you're going to have a group of individuals
that are going to flock around you specifically
because of what you've been through.
And so your tools, the things that you're learning
are going to just make it
so that you can speak into their lives
and they'll receive from you.
So I know that some of you personally
have emailed and text me
and let me see all sorts of bad experiences
that you guys have had in the business world.
And so now that you have these tool sets,
you can go forth and bless others with those as well.
So we're going to start out by jumping into patents.
About halfway in, I'm going to reveal something to you
that will literally change your life.
You'll see, you'll see.
It will literally change your life,
get you on the right path, get things lined up.
So don't worry.
A number of you have been emailing me saying,
you know, I want to hire you.
I want this.
What do we do?
And that will take care of too.
I mean, it's, don't worry.
Everything will be taken care of.
I want you to just kind of put this in perspective.
This is day four.
You've only had three days, three days of training
and you have replays and you have materials
that you'll be able to go back and write notes over
and then try things out.
But just think about this.
It's kind of like, you've never seen color.
Have you ever seen, has anybody ever seen one of those,
those videos where the person's colorblind
and all of a sudden they give them the glasses
and they're like, they can't even control their senses.
They're just like, oh my gosh.
Like you've been seeing this your entire life.
You've seen all these colors.
Like I've never experienced.
Yeah, they're one of my favorite.
That is actually one of my favorite videos actually, April.
So it's literally like this.
It's like these areas of law have already existed.
I didn't create new areas of law.
These have been around you since you,
before you were born, some of them.
Okay, some of them are newer,
but these things are basically been around it.
What I've done is I've put new glasses
on every single one of you.
Now all of you are seeing how the real world
is supposed to work and how you can maneuver in that world.
So in this experience, you're kind of like in that,
whoa, oh my gosh, there's this, there's that.
So I just wanna take like one minute and speak into this.
And then we're gonna,
we're probably gonna go about 10 minutes over
just so everybody knows.
I'm gonna give you plenty of time,
make sure you're all taken care of.
But here's the thing.
When you look and you see there's 10 things
that I need to do,
cause I've seen some of the lives.
I see Angela, I love Angela.
She's like, yes, I've got like 15 things to do.
What's going on?
So here's the thing.
This is what I want you to do, okay?
First of all, when you realize
that there's 10 things for you to do,
first of all, celebrate.
Because only a week ago,
you didn't know there was one thing to do, all right?
So number one, celebrate.
You're like, thank you, God.
I actually realized that I have value,
that there are assets that are within my grasp
that I can A, own,
and B, tend to steward properly.
And then separate from that,
I can make sure I don't infringe upon the rights of others.
I didn't even know that a week ago.
So number one, celebrate.
Acknowledge the fact that you have knowledge
that you never had before.
That's number one.
Number two, in that list,
write down everything that's coming to mind.
You're saying, oh my gosh,
there's all these things to fix.
That's fine.
Don't worry about it.
Just write them all down on a piece of paper
or type them down.
I tend to write,
because what I find is when I write things,
it's like I'm expressing myself as opposed to typing.
That's just my own thing.
You know, you may be a little different,
but for me, I write.
I write it out.
So write down every single thing
that is popping up in your head.
Checking the corporate name,
checking the product names,
checking the services.
You know, I need to determine whether or not
that employee that I have signed an agreement
saying that they assign all rights,
had or an interest for everything
that they're working on over to my company.
I wanna make sure that I don't assign all the IP
to my company and lose rights
because the board has ownership rights
over everything that owns in the company.
Like write down everything.
Just write down whatever comes.
It's just like a brain dump, right?
Any of you who are authors, you've done this.
You literally have that day.
It's not a polishing day.
It's just a blah.
Like literally you're just like,
and Tom walked up the hill and a car came
and then there was lightning.
And then there was a flood and the rocks were sharp.
And then the.
that came in with purple. And you're like, what in the world does that have to do with anything?
Doesn't matter. Just write it down. Trust me. I'm walking you through a process that's going to make
your life different. Okay. So number one, give thanks. Number two, write everything down. Now,
number three, look at your list and prioritize. You need to prioritize what's most important here.
Because yes, by all means, there are copyrights that you can file. Yes, there are trademarks you
can file. But what I've taught you over the last few days is that there are certain rights you have
that you don't even realize you already have. Under common law, you already have certain
trademark rights. Under copyright law, you already have certain rights. So don't feel like in this
one week, I need to file 65 copyrights to be the equivalent of the cost of filing one copyright,
which is $65. It's like, no, you don't. Just write it down. And now after you've given thanks,
and you write them all down, you're going to look at that list, and you're going to prioritize.
And like two or three things are going to jump out at you, like the corporate name, or like the,
you know, you've got seven technologies. Today, we're going to talk about one of Samuel's favorite
topics, patents. Right, Samuel? We're going into patents here. So awesome topic. And so you see,
oh, there's three different technologies. Well, one of the technologies is a core technology.
Maybe you protect that alone, and you don't protect the other two, because you don't have
the funds for it yet. All right? Here's the thing. If you steward well that which you're being blessed
with, more will come. It's just the way the system works. That's just, it's like, it's just the way
the kingdom works. I'm telling you, that's how it works. It's like, here's the thing. Imagine this
thing, and I'm going to jump into patents. All right? Just imagine this. Why am I taking time
talking about this? Because I care about you guys. I mean, quite frankly, I could just be
jumping into patents right now, and saying, this is what a patent is, blah, blah, blah. But
I want to make sure you get, not only you get this, but you know what to do with it. Okay? It's
really important to me that you don't panic, and at the same time, you don't forget what you're
learning. Okay? So here's the thing. Imagine you have a child who's got like a C minus
grade average in school. Okay? And the child comes to you. They're like 10 years old. They say,
I want a new cell phone. I want an iPhone. I want an iPhone 27, right? I don't know what number we're
up to, like 14 or 15 or something. I want an iPhone 27, right? And you're like, geez, I need to
pay 1,500 bucks for a phone. Are you kidding me? But in your mind, you're thinking, if I give this
phone to this child who has a C minus average, they're going to download apps. They're going
to play on all these Twitter. You know, they're going to be on all these different things that
are going to TikTok, Facebook, Instagram. Their grade point average is going to tank.
So what do you do? You give them a really cheap, cheap, cheap phone that has no capability for any
kind of games or any type of apps. You give them a flip phone, and they look like an idiot in school.
But what you're trying to do is make sure they have some kind of sense of responsibility
with what they have, right? So now they're using the flip phone, and they're like,
somebody comes over, and they're like, man, it looks like you're in Star Trek. You're like,
yeah, yeah, whatever. It's my phone. That's how I call my mom. So now they're doing all right with
the phone. And their grade point average is doing OK. They're moving up. They're like a C, C plus.
You're like, OK, no problem. I'm going to give you a Crackberry now, right? You guys remember
the Crackberries, right? Because now all of a sudden, you can type with your fingers. Yeah,
you remember that, right? So now you give them a Crackberry. They're like, what is this thing?
It looks like an iPad with a lot of buttons. I don't get it. So now you're giving them the
Crackberry, and they're using that. All their friends are still making fun of them. But they're
also getting tutoring. They're doing well in school. They're moving up to a B average. So
they're stewarding well the gift that you gave them. They're not crashing. So now all of a sudden,
you know, it comes Christmas time. They moved up to a B plus. And what do you give them for
Christmas? You give them an iPhone. Now, they're not even thinking of the iPhone at that point.
They're just kind of focused on other things. But you give it to them because you know that
they steward it well. It's the same way. That principle is the same principle that applies
to technology, to companies, to the gift things that you receive, to the ideas that you receive.
When you receive ideas, there's like a determination as to whether or not you're
stewarding them well. If you're stewarding them well, I guarantee you more stuff comes.
If you're not like stewarding them well, then you're going to find you got to keep working with
it. And look, I've been there working on the same thing multiple times myself. So I'm talking to
myself. Does that help you guys? It's kind of an aside, but I want to put this all in perspective
because
For today, we're going to go over patents.
Tomorrow, we're bringing it all together.
And I just want to make sure that before I let you guys go,
you guys get the big picture here.
It's not just there's a ton of knowledge to get.
You're like in a law school class.
This is way deeper than that, all right?
OK, so let's jump into patents.
I'm glad that helped you guys out.
Let's jump into patents a little bit here.
Now, patents are a whole other world, OK?
Patents are a grant by a government.
Now, the government could be the United States.
It could be Germany.
It could be Japan, China, India, Australia.
It could be like anywhere, any government.
So it's a grant by a government giving you
a limited monopoly on your technology or your service
or whatever it is.
It could be a system.
It could be a method.
I'll walk you through what is protectable by patent.
But how many people here still have that form
that I gave you on day one?
Can somebody show me that form?
Just kind of wave it up.
Does anybody have it here so I can just
see that you guys have it?
Beautiful, beautiful.
There you go.
All right.
On that form, do you see the patents area there?
If you go down on the patents, you
can see everything that's covered by patents, OK?
So you don't have to guess.
It's all there.
So it's a grant by a government allowing
you to stop others from making, using, selling, or importing
the technology.
So making, like manufacturing, using,
like I'm interacting with this device, right?
That's using, right?
Making, using, selling.
So I'm using eBay, Amazon, or I make an offer for sale to you.
That's selling.
Or importing, bringing it into the United States
or into that country in which you're obtaining the rights.
That's what a patent does for you.
Now, hear me clearly here.
If you don't hear anything else about patents,
you understand this.
Patents do not, do not, do not, do not
allow you to make, use, sell, or import anything.
Now, somebody here should go, what?
Hold it.
I thought the whole reason why I got a patent
was so I could make, use, sell, or anything.
Nope.
The reason why you're getting a patent
is so you can stop others from making, using, selling,
or importing.
It's a right.
It's an exclusive right.
It's a right to exclude others.
Now, why would you want to do that?
Somebody, like, raise your virtual hand.
Why would you want to be able to stop others from making,
using, selling, or importing?
Karen.
Let's unmute Karen.
So that you would have a monopoly in that area.
You would have that lane.
Karen nailed it.
That's it.
You literally have a limited monopoly,
even though government hates when you use that word.
But that's what happens.
You have a limited monopoly to your technology
in that specific field.
Now, how does this affect you personally?
Well, what if I'm the only, what if I'm
the one that creates this, and there's like seven other parties
that want to create this?
If I own the patent on this, those seven other parties
can't make it.
Now, I can take over the market.
Do you see the significance?
Now, what you've done is you've positioned yourself
to be a leader in that market.
Nobody else can do that.
You decrease your competition.
That's the power of patents.
And in the, I know there's a lot of people
here are Christian as well.
So I just want to speak to this part for a moment here.
If you're being bestowed some kind of gift from the Lord,
you want to maintain the authenticity of that gift.
By owning a patent on that technology,
then nobody else can compete with you on that technology.
Therefore, you maintain the authenticity
because you're the only one who's
providing that technology.
You see that?
So now you're like, all right, I got this gift from the Lord.
He said, create this thing.
I'm creating it.
What does the enemy do?
The enemy doesn't create Jack or Jill, right?
He's a counterfeiter.
So what is he going to do?
He's going to make things that look like this
but don't work as well.
So what you're doing is you're creating this
and you're maintaining the authenticity
so nobody can be deceived.
Got it?
So in the kingdom, that's very important.
So there's multiple sides to me, guys.
So if some of this stuff, the kingdom language,
you don't quite get, you'll get it
because you understand how it works
in the business world anyway.
So you can apply it in any environment.
All right, so let's talk a little bit about patents here.
So patents themselves, I want to show you an example.
Example here, that's a little different.
Let me show you a little something different here.
Think of this.
Think of this visual.
You could own one of these two things.
You can own a stool, which has a base and three legs,
or this is for a patent.
You could have a patent on a stool,
which has a base and three legs,
or you can own a patent on a chair,
which has four legs and a back.
Now, just by a show of hands,
who here would rather have the patent on the chair?
Just raise your hand.
And don't worry about, you know, feeling bad.
Nobody cares.
We're all learning.
All right, and who here would rather have the patent
on the stool?
Raise your hand.
Okay, now here's the thing.
The ideal, April.
The ideal situation would be for you to own the patent
on the stool.
The reason why, and hear this,
the right associated with the patent
is the right to exclude, right?
So anybody who makes anything that has a base
and three legs would infringe your patent
if you have a patent on a stool.
So that means if anybody made a chair,
a chair has a base and at least three legs.
So therefore anybody that made the chair
would infringe your patent.
And anybody who made a stool would infringe your patent.
So that means your patent becomes exponentially
more valuable because it's broader, okay?
So when it comes to patents,
what you wanna try to own is things that are broad,
all right?
It comes down to what's called claim language.
We're not gonna go into a lot of detail
on every single part of the patent.
I'll touch base a little bit on it tomorrow as well.
But I just want you to understand,
claims of the patent dictate what you own.
You can write a patent on every part of a bicycle,
but if at the end of the patent where it says I claim,
if the claim says there's a steering mechanism,
at least two wheels rotatably connected to a center mass
and a braking system,
then I don't care if you describe a little ringer,
ring, ring, ring, or like a light bulb in there
or like a jet pack in the back, you don't own that.
It's what is written in your claims.
So somebody type in the chat claims, C-L-A-I-M-S, claims.
That is a very important part of your patent.
Always look to see what your patent attorney
puts in your claims,
because that's what you own.
If you don't check that out,
you may end up in a situation where patent attorney tells
you, yeah, I wrote a patent on your thing,
but then you find out you can't enforce it
because your claims are so narrow
because you're listing like 20 different things
in the claim and nobody does all 20 things.
So therefore they can't infringe your patent.
To infringe a patent,
what they do is they look at the claims
and it's like a checklist.
And so if the claim says there's an A, a B, and a C,
to infringe that patent, you must do A, B, and C.
If you do A and B, you don't infringe.
If you do A and C, you don't infringe.
You need to do A, B, and C, okay?
Just remember that.
If you're trying to determine do you infringe a patent,
everything that's in the independent claim,
you must infringe.
Now I'm gonna show you later
what an independent claim looks like.
So don't worry, you're gonna get this, okay?
But before I go there,
I wanna explain to you something
because patents are very expensive, okay?
And so I wanna explain something to you
that a lot of people don't know about.
I know Samuel knows about it,
but a lot of people don't know this.
There's a thing called a provisional patent application,
okay?
Now there are different types of patents.
There's multiple different types of patents.
There's what's called a utility patent.
Utility patent gets filed.
You get a filing date.
It gets examined by the patent office, right?
Hopefully after it gets examined,
if it's not rejected, it becomes issued.
It goes through a whole process, okay?
There's also what's called a design patent.
A design patent is just the look of something.
So you could file a design patent for this bottle.
And that means nobody could make
that exact same shape of that bottle.
Think of the Coca-Cola bottle.
Remember the old Coca-Cola bottle
that looked almost like, you know,
it was kind of like that, you know?
That shape was protected under design patent, okay?
So there's a number of things
where you just wanna protect the design.
That's called a design patent.
Design patents last 14 years.
Utility patents last 20 years from filing.
Okay. Now, the government said, well, to file a utility patent,
it can cost $10,000, could be $12,000.
I mean, it depends on the complexity of the technology.
So, the government said, man, you know,
some people can't afford that.
So, what they did is they created a new category,
and that category is called provisional patents.
A provisional patent application secures your filing date,
but the beauty of a provisional patent application is
that it doesn't have all the same parts
as a utility patent application, okay?
A utility patent application has a title,
background on the invention,
where you talk about what other people are doing,
what's called prior art, cross-reference
to related applications, so other patents that are related.
Then it also has a field of the invention, where you're talking
about just the field, like what does it pertain to.
So, if it's bicycles, you'll say, you know,
the field of the invention is for vehicles for getting
from point A to point B, you know, it's just talking
about what it's kind of related to.
Then there's a summary of the invention, bless you, Axel,
and then there's a brief description of the drawings,
there's a detailed description of the drawings,
there's an abstract, there's claims,
there's drawings themselves.
There's a lot of stuff in a utility patent application.
A provisional patent application requires this.
A title, description, that's it.
Now, you may have to provide one drawing,
if at least one drawing is required
to understand the invention.
But that's it.
So, the amount that you pay
on a provisional typically is less
than what you pay on a utility, okay?
You still have to describe it, so one of ordinary skill
in the art can practice the invention,
meaning somebody should be able to pick up the document
and practice the invention.
If they pick it up and they can't practice the invention,
then you didn't describe it in enough detail.
So, you can't come up with an invention for a new iPhone
and say, I've got a box that you pick up and you talk into
and somebody hears you, period.
You can't do that.
You have to talk about all the components inside of it,
you know, you have to talk, you have to go into a lot of detail.
You can't just kind of, you can't hide the ball.
If you're going to get a temporary monopoly
on your technology, you can't hide the ball and say,
mwa ha ha, I'm not going to tell you what's in here, it's mine,
but I'm going to stop you from using it.
You can't do that.
You have to disclose it.
That was the whole intent of creating the patent system.
The government said, there's so many brilliant people
out there, we want this technology, April, mwa ha ha.
Okay? So, the government said, we want to make sure
that you're taking this technology
and bringing it to the public.
Oh, you're very welcome.
And the only way we can do that is actually
to give you something back.
And so, the government said,
I'll give you a temporary monopoly on your technology
if you disclose it to everybody.
So, when you file a patent, you need to disclose your invention.
Now, what if, what if, what if the case is
that for your technology, people can't figure out how
to actually implement your technology,
or they can't figure out how to create it?
They can't reverse engineer it.
They can't, like, as an example, imagine back-end software.
Anybody here work with software by a show of hands?
Okay, there's a few people.
So, in software, there's functionality that's created.
So, there's a back-end that has, like, a server.
And so, when you interact with that server, you're using,
like, a graphical user interface or the internet,
something like that.
But you're not, you can't access the software.
The software is in the company that owns the software.
It's at their location.
You can't access that software, okay?
So, if there's no way for the public to access the software,
you may decide not to file a patent on it,
because the public will never be able to determine how to do it.
That's where trade secrets come in.
A trade secret is something that cannot be reverse engineered.
When you sell this object, nobody can figure
out how to do this.
A trade secret has the potential to last forever.
A patent only lasts for 20 years from filing,
or for a design, 14 years from filing.
Do you see the difference?
So, think of this, the Coca-Cola formula.
Nobody can figure out how to make Coca-Cola.
So, Coca-Cola did not file a patent on their formula,
because if they did, they would have disclosed
to the public the very formula for making their product.
Then after 20 years, actually back then it was 17 years
from issuance, now it's 20 years from filing.
But what would have happened?
happened was their formula would have gone public,
and then they would have lost rights.
Their rights would have expired.
Then other people could make generics.
Now, where have you heard that word, generics, a lot?
Pharmaceuticals, right?
That's the area.
Why is it that a single pill from a name brand
costs $500 for one pill, right?
Because they own the patent on that specific formula.
Now, a lot of those pharmaceutical companies,
they spend like tens of millions of dollars
getting that formula approved by the FDA.
Then they get three years left in their patent
to actually enforce it.
So they have very high prices to try to make up
the tens of millions of dollars they spent in testing
and creation and everything for that one pharmaceutical.
But what happens the day that that patent expires?
Generics fled the market.
You'll see it everywhere.
All of a sudden, you go to the pharmacist,
and the pharmacist says, when you ask for a specific pill,
they give you another name.
And you're like, that's not what I asked for.
They go, no, that's the generic.
That's because the patent expired.
Now you understand what's going on in the back end, OK?
But when the patent doesn't expire,
then you'll see on your insurance,
your deductible is so high because that one pill
costs you $500.
That's because of patents, because people are
protecting their technology, OK?
So remember, provisionals, if you don't have a lot of money
but you want to protect your technology,
look at provisionals.
That's all I want you to remember.
Remember the name provisionals.
I'm going to teach you one more thing.
Then I'm going to give you, I'm going
to disclose something to you that will kind of bring
all this stuff together.
I'm just looking to see.
Hey, Larissa, can you?
Actually, let me do it this way.
I think I can do it myself.
I'm just going to check one thing for you guys.
I think it's going to help you guys out.
Let me just provide this real quick.
There you are.
What can I help you with?
I got it.
I'm going to see if I get a reply for it.
Just trying to bring a special treat to everybody
here to help them out.
OK.
All right, I just sent out a text to them.
See if they show up.
All right, so with that being said,
what exactly is Protectable by Pat?
OK, I have that list that I gave all of you
but I kind of want to touch base on this a little bit
so you kind of get a good idea of what do those words mean.
Because having it all there is great
but you don't really understand it, it doesn't help you a lot.
So with that being the case, let's kind of talk
about what's Protectable by Pat.
So first of all, you can protect an apparatus.
So think of like a device.
Think of like a shoe, an iPhone, a microphone, cameras.
Those are all devices.
But you can also protect systems.
So think of like in telecommunications,
you have a central office and a customer premise
and they're communicating with each other
or you have at your home, you have like a modem
and there's a local area network and there's
computers that are connected to the local area network.
That's a system.
It's multiple components that are working together.
You can protect that entire system as well.
Now I'm going to teach you something that probably nobody
has ever told you.
Remember this.
If you're filing a patent on a system,
this is really important for you to understand.
So I'm going to take a second just
to make sure you really get this.
If you're filing a patent on a system,
make sure that your claims do not
focus on many different components
so that no one person will ever infringe your patent.
What do I mean by that?
Imagine that your system is a modem and then a computer
and then let's say like a radio.
There's three components in your system.
Your computer communicates with your radio through your modem.
That's your system.
Well, if you file the patent and in the claims
it says that what's required is a radio, a modem,
and a computer, there's no one person
who's creating all three things.
No one person creates all three things.
So what you should be writing your claims on
is, as an example, a computer that's
capable of interacting with a modem which
interacts with a radio.
You don't write patent claims on a radio
and then a system or the system having a radio, a modem.
them and a computer because no one person is going to, no one person is going to create all three.
So strategically, and this is very, I'm just letting you know, this is very high-end stuff
I'm teaching you right now. This is stuff I teach like lawyers. I'm just telling you this because
you're going to be paying somebody to do this. So make sure when you look at your claims,
you look, when you look at the claim, you say to yourself, is there one person
who is either creating all of this in this one claim, or is there one person who's performing
all of these steps? If the answer is no, your patent is worthless. Okay? The reason why I'm
telling you that is because there are individuals, God bless them, who pride themselves on just
getting you patents. I'm here to tell you that it's not hard to get a patent.
All you have to do is have two pages of limitations in one claim.
That gets over everything that's ever existed. If I say there's a bicycle that has, you know,
chrome wheels, a steering mechanism made of a certain rubber, you know, a light that has eight,
exactly eight LEDs. It has, you know, a horn that has a very high pitch. It has a purple seat. It
has, when you have all those limitations, there is no one person who's going to do all of that.
It's not going to happen. So therefore no one's ever going to infringe your patent,
even though you got the patent. So why am I telling you this? I'm telling you this because
what you need to do is make sure that the claims of your patent are not so broad, that are not so
so narrow that nobody ever infringes them. Ask your patent attorney to explain to you what the
claim says. And if when you hear it, you say there is nobody who's going to do all that,
then your patent is worthless. You just spent $12,000 for a really nice piece of paper to put
on your ceiling, on your, on your wall. That's it. I don't want that happening to you because
you guys will spend a lot of money protecting your IP. All right. Does that make sense? That was a
really, a really complicated concept that just gave you, but what I don't want you guys doing
is spending $12,000, $10,000 on a patent and feeling all excited about it. And it it's worth
nothing because the people that do understand how this world works, like me, are going to look at
that and say, you can practice the same invention. They can't stop you. Their claim is so narrow,
you'll never infringe it. Go ahead and make it. You don't have a problem. So I want to make sure
when you do spend your money, you're spending it, you know, wisely. Okay. All right.
And with that, speaking of wisely, I want to reveal something to all of you.
So as you can tell, we've gone through a lot of stuff and there's, there's a lot more,
there's a lot more, right? We've like literally scraps, like maybe 2% of what exists there.
There's a lot of stuff in intellectual property law. Okay. Now to, to learn all this kind of in
one sitting can be daunting. You know, I mean, we do it slowly and I kind of give you real life
examples and we go back and forth, back and forth to make sure you get it, you know? So,
but at the same time, as you are implementing these things in your real life, like right now,
real life situations you need feedback. Like you have to know, am I doing this right? Like I've
got new questions now. I mean, some of you just started learning about this and you went,
oh my gosh, like I don't know what to do with all this. I have like 10, 15 different things to do.
So that's going to continue happening and you're going to need guidance as you're going along.
Okay. So what I want to do here is I want to take one second and introduce all of you to something
that I put together specifically to help you become successful in this area. Because one of
my concerns is that if you, in fact, start implementing things and you don't, you don't
really understand what you're doing, A, you can do it wrong. B, it can get really frustrating.
I know personally, because I've been there myself. C, you need a supportive network,
like people that are like you, who are implementing these things, where you can
kind of feed off of each other, learn off of each other, share life's experiences with each other.
And then separate from that, I also provide something extra. So let me introduce all of
you to something. I'm going to share my screen here. And let me check one thing. Give me one
Okay, I just confirmed for you guys, we got a special guest who's going to show up here
to kind of give you guys some insight.
So let me share my screen with you real quick.
I just want to give Ray credit for this because she actually cleaned this whole thing up.
And let's see if we can make it go down to present right below next to template link.
There it is.
And there it is.
Okay.
All right.
I'm going to introduce.
Can everybody see the screen right now?
Ray, can you see it clearly?
Yep.
Okay.
All right.
I want to introduce all of you to the protection portal.
Okay.
So I created this specifically for you.
The reason why I created this is because as startups, as entrepreneurs, as business individuals,
even as lawyers, there's a number of lawyers that are here as well.
You're going to start implementing some of these policies and you're going to go, oh,
I don't, I'm not sure about this.
Or I have extra questions.
And you don't want to be paying $600 an hour.
Trust me.
At my rate, you could probably ask me an entire year, less than four hours worth of questions at my rate.
And the value of this will be recouped.
So let me explain to you what we're doing here.
So as you know, I handle patent litigation, patent prosecution, trademark law, copyright law, and trade secret law.
I created the protection portal.
And the way this works is you're in a private group.
There's a number of people who are actually in the protection portal who are actually visiting.
One of who's coming in very shortly with his wife.
And I adore those guys.
And they've implemented a lot of the policies already.
In that group, I go live for an hour and a half once a month.
During the month, you can email me questions.
I review them.
And what we do during that time is we do live answers.
Like it is just full speed answering questions.
Like this is what I'm running into.
What do I do here?
Like what's going on there?
How do I, you know, what area of law pertains to this specific situation?
And I break them all down piece by piece by piece.
Every single month for an hour and a half.
You also will get in the protection portal, as a member of the protection portal, you'll keep your challenge videos.
And you'll keep your VIP videos if you're a VIP for as long as you're in the portal.
They're thrown in.
They're yours.
Okay?
Once you're out of the portal, then they're no longer yours.
So a portal membership is for one year.
There are people that already have lifetime access.
They said, look, I don't want to renew.
I want this permanently.
I gave them lifetime access.
That's something separate we can talk about separate.
The other thing you get is you get to sit in and audit future challenges, future protector idea challenges.
So you can just come in and audit, brush up on things.
Separate from that, as I mentioned, you get to e-mail me questions.
But there's another thing.
I have an IP network, like attorneys in literally every single country in the world.
Okay?
So if you're trying to do work in Canada or you're trying to do work in China or Malaysia or Indonesia, where it is, and you need an attorney on the ground, I have a network with attorneys in every single country.
So I can introduce you.
After I talk to you, I'm going to determine whether or not you're a right fit.
If you are, I'll introduce you to one of my contacts, and then you can potentially work with them.
Some people here have worked with Paula Clancy in Canada, because I've introduced them to her as well.
So there's a number of things that you're going to get with this membership.
Again, you get the monthly training.
So it's 18 hours.
And, again, I bill at $600 an hour.
So you're getting like, you know, you're essentially getting almost $11,000 worth of value in that.
Separate from that, you're going to get access to the IP associates that I already mentioned to you.
Separate from that, you get to e-mail the questions.
I get to review them.
Just be clear.
No legal advice.
Right?
There's no legal advice that's going to be provided here.
What I'm going to do is similar to what we've been doing the last three days, now four days, in explaining to you these different concepts, making sure you get what the law says.
And other things are going to pop up.
All of a sudden you're going to go, oh, I need to do this in my company now.
Or before I meet with that person, I need this kind of agreement with me.
The other thing I do in the private Facebook group is I drop links in there and I drop contacts for issues.
instance, if you need to find access to royalty free music or royalty free images like I dropped the links in there.
If you need certain context for searching I dropped the links if you need professional drawings done I dropped the links.
So everybody has access to all that as well, and it's again it's a one year membership now when you put all this together again you're getting the 18.
hours with me emailing me the questions getting the feedback access to the network.
That total value actually it's way higher than 16,000, but what i'm doing right now for all of you, this is open until the end of Monday it closes all right, and the reason why is because our first.
Our first gathering for the next class is going to be Wednesday.
So we meet once a month and the next meeting actually is Wednesday, it was supposed to be this Wednesday, but I changed it to next Wednesday.
So all those people who join will actually go into that class i'll introduce you to the members of the class there's some people that are very advanced there are some people that are newer.
And you'll start to work together, and you know use your networks to support each other, the cost is 2495 one payment or three payments of 995 okay that's the offer that i'm putting on the table right now now.
Something unique has been happening, so I decided to do this, I actually talked with my team yesterday, because the number of you been reaching out to me and saying.
I want to ask my one or two questions I want to you know I just want time alone with you, Peter, I just want to be alone with you and ask you questions about my scenario so for the first 10 people that sign up.
For this for the protection portal i'm going to give you a 20 minute call with me.
Okay, where you can ask anything you want just whatever your heart's desire is just ask your questions.
You know and i'm going to be able to answer your questions with regard to the law now again, I am not giving you legal advice, this is not a legal advice thing that's not happening.
Okay, if you want legal advice, then we can talk about doing an engagement agreement and actually becoming a client, we can talk about that, but for the first 10 people that sign up starting now.
I don't think we've dropped the link yet right Larissa so I don't want people freaking out because people go into this panic mode.
When they find out about this so but it's it's the first 10 people that sign up they'll get a 20 minute one on one with me okay all right.
Peter our guests are here.
Oh, they are awesome okay does that sound good to you guys, I mean is that something you guys like appreciate yeah awesome awesome okay i'm going to introduce to all of you, Todd and Tamra.
And I might have one other everybody loves Todd and Tamra look every people they're clapping for you guys you guys are awesome.
Todd and Tamra have been in the protection portal for some time, so I just want them to speak a little bit towards what this is about and why this is important and just i'm just going to give you guys the mic.
Go right ahead.
Well you're awesome.
Thanks Peter we really, really love what you've done and how you've helped our clients and our nonprofit leaders, this has been a huge blessing to us and.
All of our we have some of our family or 508 family here so hi guys is really awesome but man it's been it's been powerful powerful for us, giving us the right education and the knowledge.
As we move forward with our brands and companies and ministries we're doing some fun things there.
yeah we love Peter we always constantly are learning from Peter.
And sending everybody his way so get in.
So we.
Just to just give you a plug I mean he didn't ask us to do this, but we're doing it anyways.
Peter has probably one of the biggest hearts of anybody i've ever met besides the the wisdom, this man carries is amazing you want a direct line to God the information.
If that's what you want Peter is that man, but you know one thing that I love by Peter is, you have such a big heart that you really do care about people, you want the assets that they have, you want them to be able to do the things that they want to do.
And you want them to be able to do the things that they have to be protected and you've worked with some of our nonprofit leaders to where you're like they.
They come to this class they learn they didn't do it right they find out they have to rename their entire ministry and then we go into this whole new process with them, but I love it that.
Your knowledge and is beyond anything obviously that anybody in the room's God, but we need people like you, we need what you have, we need your wisdom, we need what you have.
And you give it to us in such a non-threatening way
that I never feel stupid
when I probably have asked the same question
a half a dozen times.
So, that's-
And you guys have been in the portal for a while.
Maybe you could just kind of speak towards
like what your experience is in the portal,
like what the information you received
during the sessions, things like that.
Well, part of it is just the reminder
of what we've learned during the challenge
and then everything else
where we can actually go do the work ourselves.
And you're directing us, you're giving us the information
so we can do our own research and ask the right questions.
And part of the problem is
with us not being in that industry
is knowing the right questions to ask.
And that's all-
That's a big one right there.
We've been finding that super valuable.
Yeah, and to have other people be asking questions
we didn't even know that we needed to ask.
So, that's huge.
Because you don't know what you don't know
until you hear it from somewhere.
And we have branded, we've got a trademark
on a physical product brand that we had going
and we use Amazon as our distributor
and that was very educational there.
But man, there's still a lot we didn't know.
My wife's even a prophetic painter
and now we're learning, oh, you can protect that as well.
Didn't realize that.
So, even that, not only our names, but our books,
the content on our website,
we build websites for our nonprofit clients
and now we can tell them,
hey, you can have all that protected as well.
Look at that.
So, it's been very, very helpful inside the portal.
So, thank you for what you've done there.
Yep, and just knowing what we get to do
and what part we can do before we hire you
to do the big part
is helpful and saving money,
but also getting us to do the legwork
and not paying somebody else to do that.
Saving the hours on the attorney side.
So, that's been really helpful.
You're empowering us as clients and students so much.
So, we really appreciate that
and all our nonprofit leaders really do.
That's a big word.
You do empower us to do what we can do
and then you give us the wisdom
to know what we shouldn't be doing.
And so, because that could get us in trouble
if we try to do things we shouldn't be doing
in the process.
So, the portal has been really helpful with that.
Just going in, we don't get to get on all the live calls.
I wish we did.
We watch a lot of replays
and we read a lot of conversations,
but in that is where, man,
the resources are there and available for you always.
So, yeah.
And the other thing is,
one thing that we didn't reveal to you,
I just dropped the link for everybody in the chat.
One thing that we didn't mention
is we just created a backend.
Hey, Rae, do you have a link to the backend you can-
I do.
I have it ready to screen share too, if you want.
Yeah, why don't you do that?
Can you do that, please?
Absolutely.
All right.
So, I wasn't gonna reveal this,
but I'm gonna reveal it anyway
so you can see what's going on.
So, as you've seen,
every time that we do the challenge,
there are a number of videos that come up, right?
So, you'll get all these different videos
and then you're kind of trying to figure out,
well, where do I save the videos?
Like, where's the link for the videos?
Like, you know, so where's that email that I got
so I can see the links?
Well, we solved all that.
So, we created, I invested in a whole backend system
that was created by Bruce and Lindsay
through Tribe Social,
where every one of your videos for your challenge
or every one of your videos for your VIP
is actually in there.
And you become a member of that community
and then you just log in
and you can see every single video,
like one by one by one by one.
So, it's pretty powerful.
Rae, can you just kind of take maybe one, two minutes?
Yeah, just kind of walk people through it.
Right.
So, up here we have the different groups.
So, sometimes, you know,
you're in more than one program with us.
So, you have the challenge groups
and then you'll have, in this one,
it'll tell you what month and when your challenge was,
but you'll have your challenge group
and you'll have your VIP group.
And then we have a section here for quick links.
So, Protection Portal members
are going to have a really easy time logging in.
All they got to do is come in and click this
and they're in where they need to be.
And if they ever wanted to join a VIP video,
say later they decide they want to watch them,
they can do that here.
And then same thing down here.
So, you can go through each day
and see all of your videos.
Yeah.
So, the general idea is that it's all organized,
it's easy to use.
And in fact, if there's a class that existed before you
and you want access to what they have,
you can actually seek to upgrade.
trade, you can obtain lifetime membership.
There's all sorts of stuff.
So we're actually gonna,
we're working towards making this searchable at some point
where you could actually type in a term
and then find things.
But this was, this is not,
I'm not marketing this for you guys.
What I'm saying is this is a perk
that I just kind of threw in there.
I'm doing it for now.
I like it.
People seem to like it.
So I'm doing that now,
but I'm just letting you know,
this is one of the perks that's available right now
when people join this opportunity.
So just letting you all know about this,
I'm gonna cover a little more on patents.
Thank you, Todd and Tamara.
I really love you guys.
You guys are amazing.
Love doing live with you too.
So this is something that I've created for you.
If you have questions,
you can email me directly at nieves
at elite-challenges.com or DM me,
or if you're on VIP,
we're gonna talk a little bit more
about some of the things,
but just let me know.
This is something that does not exist.
You will not find this.
There is no lawyer who wants to do this.
Why?
Because in 18 hours,
I can get paid $18,000.
All right?
I can get paid way more
than what I'm gonna get paid,
quote unquote,
for sitting there and coaching people
and answering questions.
I'm doing this because I know you guys need it.
And so I'm making this available
so you guys can grow
and become strong in what you do,
because I know you're gonna end up
hiring lawyers at some point anyway.
So I'd rather kind of be there
as a resource to help you along
and then even guide you
on what lawyer to actually hire, okay?
So if, as you have questions,
you can either ping me or ping Ray,
but this is available until Monday night.
Again, the first 10,
some of you have actually already signed up.
I just, I can see it here.
So some of you are already signing up.
So the first 10 people that register
will get the 20 minutes with me, okay?
There's still a few slots left for that,
but I can see it over here
that some of you guys are already signing up.
So let me cover one or two more things in patents,
and then we're gonna jump into VIP separate.
So I hope this is helping you guys,
but this is something that I know I wish I had
when I started doing entrepreneurship
and I know a lot of other people need.
All right, so let's kind of touch
a little bit more in the patent realm.
So when you get a patent,
you need to make sure that you mark your products
with the patent number, okay?
That's called marking.
Remember how I told you you need to do that for trademarks?
You need to also do that for copyrights, right?
In the patent world,
if you wanna get any damages at all,
like any damages at all, you have to mark.
If you don't mark, you're getting zero, zero,
hear me, hear me, zero damages, okay?
Why am I telling you this?
I've had other people sue my clients,
and then I've gone to my client and said,
you know what?
Why don't we admit that we're guilty?
And the client says, why would I do that?
That's crazy.
I'd be liable.
I said, yeah, but they never marked anything.
So even if we're liable for patent infringement,
you know how much you owe?
Zero.
So when I reached out to opposing counsel, I said,
oh man, like you sued me in the Eastern District of Texas.
My client is so upset.
We're gonna have to go over there and like, you know,
sit in a hot tub,
be in some warm temperature for a little while.
But here's the thing.
At the end of the day,
after you spent your $2 million in patent litigation fees,
you know how much you're getting out of me?
Zero.
Because your client didn't mark.
And your client never sent out any notice letter
saying that there was infringement.
There are two ways,
two ways to start damages in the patent world.
It's called actual notice or constructive notice.
Those are the two things.
Actual notice and constructive notice.
Actual notice is you actually receive something
saying that you infringe.
So you get a cease and desist letter,
says you infringed.
That's actual notice.
You get sued.
You actually learned that you infringed when you got sued.
That's actual notice, okay?
So those are two ways
that you can actually get actual notice.
Constructive notice is you take your product
and on your product, you have the patent number, right?
I'm just kind of curious as to whether or not
these guys have a patent number on their thing.
Yeah, but it's so tiny, you can barely see it.
Why is it that as you get older,
the distance for the thing that you're reading
gets further and further?
I mean, is there a point where you just can't even see
what you're trying to read?
I don't know.
But anyways-
It's how we stretch when we age.
Is that it?
That's how you stay limber?
That's how you stay limber, yeah.
So the point of the matter-
is that when you get your patent, mark your products.
Now, if your product, let's say it's like a microchip,
you can't really mark it.
And what you do is you mark the packaging
with the patent number.
You'll say PAT.NO. and then the number.
7,351,042.
That's your patent number.
You put it right there.
But make sure that you're marking, okay?
I can't tell you how many times I've seen people come to me
and say, I want to sue XYZ Corporation
for patent infringement.
And then I tell them, yeah, sure, I'm fine
with being in litigation the next four years
and making $2.5 million in legal fees.
But at the end of the day, you're getting nothing
because they didn't mark.
So just remember that.
I want to give the mic to Samuel for a second here
because I know, Samuel, you're the patent guy.
So is there one, just tell me, is there one specific area?
I know you're in VIP, but is there one specific area
that you'd like me to cover for you in the patent realm?
Happy to cover any topic on literally anything
because I handle everything in Patent Law.
Okay, so I'm going to be doing,
eventually be doing a challenge.
And as part of the challenge, I'm going to be using a quiz
to do the diagnosis for me, typically.
So I have done multiple things.
I'm a functional health coach.
And I usually take people's labs to help diagnose
and pinpoint what the root issues are.
So I do that for my clients, but as part of my challenge,
I want to use my methodology with asking questions
in quiz form to help diagnose and have people self-diagnose
so I can help them with the solution to their problem.
And so my question is,
is there something patentable about the,
I know the quiz technology doesn't belong to me,
but the process of asking the questions
that help diagnose what the root causes are?
Okay, this is a great question for everyone here
who's a coach as well.
Okay, so not just for Samuel and what he's doing,
but also other coaches.
So you can obtain patents for methods.
There are things called method patents, okay?
But here's the tricky part with method patents.
With method patents, it cannot be the case
that a human being can perform the invention by themselves
without any machine, without any kind of other kind
of functionality besides themselves.
If the government believes that a human being
could do it by themselves,
then it becomes what's called unpatentable subject matter.
It gets rejected on the 35 USC section 101.
You don't need to know the section,
but that's what it's called.
It gets rejected under the Alice case
as unpatentable subject matter, okay?
I know this because I literally just destroyed a patent
that was asserted against my client.
Originally in the Southern District of California,
I transferred it to Massachusetts,
won the case after four and a half years.
And the way I won it was because I destroyed a patent
for unpatentable subject matter on the 101.
Okay, so in your case, what you wanna look for
is there functionality in software?
Is there some kind of supplement that nobody else is using?
Is there in your process, what's unique about your process?
If every step of your process is implemented
by a human being, it becomes difficult,
very difficult to get a patent out of that.
In that kind of situation, what you might wanna do
is make sure you don't put in writing all the steps
that you perform so as to maintain it as a trade secret.
Because then what happens is everybody wants to know
why is it that when people work with Samuel and his business
they're always being healed?
Like, how is that happening?
It might be that you have a unique sequence,
a timing that certain things are done.
Like we add this, we do this test,
we determine these levels.
Now that means you take this thing.
Now at the third week, you do this
and then you add this structural functional testing
and you add this, like that's your unique way of doing it.
Like you may not want a patent.
You may wanna kind of keep that to yourself
if nobody else can find out all the steps
that are being taken, right?
But if you are gonna go after a patent,
like a method patent, then what you really should do
is see if there's anything in your steps
that are not just merely performed by a human being
acting on their own, but instead either using software
or adding some kind of system that's unique
or some kind of supplement that's unique
because you need something more
than just a human being performing actions.
That's just because that's how the patent office
is dealing with section 101 right now.
Okay, and I think that would apply to what I do
because so post-challenge is actually inviting people
to a group.
just something similar to what you're doing,
except I actually use software and some AI
to actually mimic what I do.
So I can handle a larger group of people
to help diagnose, including pulling lab information data,
crunching that data.
Yeah, that's good.
I like that.
That, well, you said software and AI,
which is dealing with like neural networks
and dealing with, you know, stuff like that.
I'm an EE geek, right?
The patents I write are all over AI,
all over, you know, software.
So, I mean, some of the patents that I write
actually frighten me.
There's one guy in particular
that literally wants to make everything automated,
where humans are basically obsolete.
And I kind of cut myself off of him
because it doesn't really work with me.
You know, it's just the things that he's doing,
it's like, it's right out of Terminator.
Like, let's put it that way.
It's like, it's that level.
He's that out there.
And it works, like what he's doing works.
Like, it makes sense.
But the technology that he's utilizing,
I can see the good and the bad.
That's the, you know, here's the thing.
In business, you get to be really good at what you do,
but you don't forget who you are, right?
So you get to choose your clients.
A lot of people at the,
here's a little client development tool for all of you guys.
At the end of the year,
you should be looking at your client base
and shaving off 5% of your clients.
There should be,
you should be looking at them like constructively
and saying, all right,
which are the ones that are draining all of my time?
Which are the ones that are disputing every single bill?
Which are the ones that call me day and night
and they're never happy?
Like, who are those people?
Shave them off.
Because the hardship that you have
associated with those people are gonna,
is gonna bring you down so much
that you're not as effective for the 95% of the people
that are receiving and growing, you know, effectively, right?
So that's just, in general,
that's just a powerful thing to do.
In the business world,
at least in the legal world, it works very well.
So, Samuel, does that help you out?
So in your case, if you're using AI or you're using software,
make sure you talk to your patent attorney
about what exactly, you know,
artificial intelligence is being utilized for.
If there's certain things you're doing with neural networks
or coding or whatever, mention that as well so that they know
and they'll incorporate that into their assessment
to determine whether or not what you're doing
is protectable by patent, okay?
Got it, got it, thank you, thank you.
Oh, it's my pleasure.
All right, I'll take one more question here.
I don't usually do this here,
but I just feel like if you guys have a question,
I'll be here for you, so any other questions?
Karen, go for it.
Yeah, kind of similar, but in the education realm,
using standardized tests, so those I don't know,
but a combination of old and new
and a combination of customized curriculum
and an educational therapy.
So all of those things-
Yeah, great question, great question.
All right, so what Karen just mentioned
actually brings up a certain topic
that I'm gonna talk about, all right,
which is, take a minute and kind of touch base on this.
What if the elements of what you're trying to file a patent
on already exist, okay?
So what if what you're doing
is you're taking the tires from a car,
you're taking the engine from a jet,
this is a bad idea, don't do this at home, okay?
I'm just using an example, don't do this at home.
And then you're taking like a kite
and you're putting them together and that's your vehicle
and now you just, vroom, you just take off, right?
Bad idea, I'm just saying, let's just use that as an example.
Each one of those parts already exists, right?
Kites exist, tires exist, the jet exists.
So what the patent office does,
the patent office looks to see
if there's anything unique about the combination.
Was there a difficulty in bringing them together?
And in that difficulty of bringing them together,
did you overcome something that the other parties
were not able to do that you're able to do?
Okay, so in Karen's situation,
if you're using some standardized tests here
and then I'm gonna add some kind of software work there
and then I'm gonna add
some kind of unique implementation there,
you've gotta ask,
is there any difficulty in combining these things?
Like if just anybody off the street said,
I'm gonna take a tire, I'm gonna take a kite
and I'm gonna take a jet, click, click, click, boom, gone.
Right, no, it doesn't work like that.
You know, you have to do a lot more
to make it work properly.
So for that reason, even though those parts exist,
the combination may be patentable, okay?
Because chances are the kite would eviscerate
like the second you turn on the jet.
and the tires would have no functionality whatsoever
and you end up in the ocean, okay?
So with that being the case,
and that product was actually created
by a company called Acme.
Some of you who are older understand what I just mean.
All right, so with that, I'm gonna let you guys go.
Hopefully you guys had fun today.
I'm gonna jump over and like, yeah, Cecil's laughing.
So I'm gonna jump over in VIP in five minutes.
Gonna give the amazing Larissa and Ray
a few minutes to finish off anything they need to do.
Ray, thank you.
Great job today, Ray.
Larissa, always a great job.
You guys are amazing.
Ray didn't even sleep from what I heard,
just trying to fix up some of the software things
that were going on.
So yeah, we really care about you guys.
That's why we're doing all this stuff.
And so I'm gonna give it five minutes.
1.23, how about that?
1.23, we'll open up VIP,
and we'll go as long as you guys need to go,
at least an hour, obviously, okay?
All right, see you guys there.
I'm gonna, Larissa, I'm gonna jump off.