Welcome, welcome, welcome to Thursday night of the protect your idea challenge.
Welcome everybody. Come on in. Good to see you, April, with your bright shining picture. Good to see you, Dr. Collette. Hello, Kathleen. Hello, Suzanne. Hello, Crystal. Hello, Mr. Hicks. Mr. Hicks was one of my favorite teachers back in elementary school. Fun fact.
One of mine too.
Hello, Zoe. Hello, Suzanne.
You are somewhere where it is quite bright and sunshiny still. So you're not. Well, it's still light on the east coast where I'm at.
I'm in central zone. Yeah.
Good to see you here tonight. Welcome, welcome.
Thursday, almost Friday, one more day till the end of the work week. What does that mean? Anyone else feel like it just doesn't matter what day of the week it is there's something to be done.
We have to take that day of rest.
When we talk about Friday, though, I think we've conditioned our minds to work to Friday, because we know Saturday we're supposed to be off. However, most of us, our schedules are so busy on Saturday, they're just like the rest of the week.
I'm not sure if I can get one computer free day a week. That whole computer. I like to have so much going on. It doesn't matter how busy it is as long as it's not computer stuff. But that's not what we're here to talk about. All right.
So, good to see everybody. Yesterday we talked about copyrights.
So, I'm going to go ahead and get our chats open. Hello, Helene. Good to see you.
Helene, you missed Anders. Anders is coming, and we got to know Anders and V.A.P. yesterday and you two need to get to know each other because you guys have a lot of similar background, I think.
We're like, Anders, he'll probably show up at some point. He's just not here.
His last name is Hackstrom.
Yeah, it looks like Swedish or something.
He's from Sweden. Our people are from the same town.
Awesome. So, I'm looking for two great shares. Big Nuggets yesterday. Copywriting, that covered a lot for some new things.
So, if you are caught up on yesterday, you were here, you listened to the replay, and you had something go, ta-ding! Ooh, that is very valuable. That's a golden nugget.
Raise your virtual hand, and let's get a share. Let's get a share on that. Copyrights. Or back to trademarks, just whatever you've been doing and catching up.
All right, Kathleen, let me get you spotlighted. Go for it, girl.
Well, one thing I would like, if one of you guys can tell us how to properly pronounce Peter's last name.
Nieves.
Nieves, yeah.
Nieves.
Okay, very good. Well, one of my takeaways from last night that to me was like really complicated, was that within a copyrighted work, there can be something that is trademarked.
So, I was like, wow, that's interesting. And another big light bulb was that for how little copyrights cost, Peter was saying it's only $65, that it's something we should pursue.
And things like with photos, you don't have to copyright like each individual one. You could batch like 100, you know. And then he gave us some strategies with, you know, like a book.
If you did have a book with some pictures or a chart or something that was like important, like maybe copyright that one page, and then the rest of the work, you know, do whatever somebody is going to maybe be likely to copy.
So, you're protecting that one work, especially if it works like 500 pages. So, wow, last night, I mean, tons of golden nuggets. I really appreciate what he taught us and trained us on. I feel much more equipped. So, thank you.
Awesome, awesome. Let me unspot that. And Dr. Collette, love to hear something transformative from you. Go ahead.
Definitely. Because I'm an author, everything that he talked about as far as literary work was very transformative.
very eye-opening. I'm with Kathleen. The fact that you can put an illustration in your book
and copyright the illustration separately from the book was phenomenal. So that was eye-opener.
And the logo piece, because I thought that if I copyrighted my logo that one was sufficient,
but to know that I may need to do both the trademark and the copyright for the logo was
really, really eye-opening. And the low cost. It's just like the fact that for $65, you can
make sure you protect what you put out there. That was phenomenal. That was phenomenal. It's
very inexpensive, but in the long run, it can net you a lot of money if somebody infringes
on your copyright. So that was very, very eye-opening. I did not realize that.
Fantastic. Fantastic. You guys are getting it. And I'm going to take the spotlight off.
We have got a special video for you. So just a second here as we're getting that queued up.
And I see it.
And I'm ready. Hot off the press.
No sound. Maybe you have to unmute, Peter.
Because it's Zoom, you have to go into the audio and tell it in the share and tell it you want to
share the audio as well. Oh, that's... Don't you love when there's brilliant people in the room?
I just love her. She's amazing. So you said that's in the video portion?
Right at the bottom of the screen, when you hit share screen, there's two little boxes
at the very bottom left hand. Make sure you click those. So it says like optimize video
and audio output. Yeah, it doesn't do that on here. All it says is one participant can share
at a time. It says advanced sharing options. You want me to take care of it? I got it here.
You can do it if you can get it to run at the higher speed, because I want to make sure people
can see some of the features. Perfect. So do I also do optimize for video clip?
Sure. All right. Where it says share audio as well, that's what you need to share.
Because you're sharing your screen and you want to make sure you're sharing the audio
of the screen as well. Okay. I believe I got it here. Tell me if you guys can hear it.
Hey everybody, this is Peter Nieves here and I'm going to teach you how to protect your ideas.
All of a sudden this opportunity showed up, which was
to basically take all of this knowledge and give it to you. That's what I'm here for.
Opportunity to learn how to protect not only your intellectual rights, but also your data,
your frameworks, your logos, your name, your domain, your websites. All of those are such
important, pivotal, moving parts and pieces of you building a business as an entrepreneur.
And that's what I'm teaching my clients actually. I referred so many people over to his challenge.
I actually want it as part of the foundational framework of what I do as a coach.
As you may or may not know, Pete is one of the best IP lawyers in the whole country.
And just going through this challenge was an amazing, amazing experience for me as a business
coach. And just changing the lens on how I see IP, how I see trademarks, how I see copywriting,
that in itself saved me, I think over a thousand dollars. And that made the challenge just
more than pay for itself. If you're on the fence, Pete is your guy, right? He's bar none. He's one
of the best in his field. And I highly recommend him.
in many services. There's certain things that you have rights to already, but there's certain
advanced rights that you can obtain. We're going to go through them all individually.
We're not lawyers, but what Peter does is equip us to be able to see things and help people before
they get going down the road and find out that they've had a violation or an infringement,
even worse, and they get sued. I'm glad we dodged that bullet that we're not going to get in
trouble for using any trademark language or logos in our page, but highly recommend it. If you get
a chance to work with Peter, definitely recommend. I bill out like $600 an hour. You're not paying
that. Take advantage of it. I'm telling you, take advantage of this opportunity.
Do I really believe in the business that I'm doing? I check myself before I wreck myself
because if I'm still thinking small, then I'm not going to grow. So I really had to really do some
mental mind shifting here. I had to change the way I think. This is legit. I am doing this. I
am going to that next level. I am serious about this. And he has a resource that down the road
is going to cost way more money. And for me to even talk to a lawyer is going to cost me $600
for an hour. And there's no resources out there who are literally going to train me. Nobody is
going to want to train me. So I'm going to have to go on YouTube and try to figure out who's
telling the truth and who's just trying to brag. But here's a resource that's available that's
going to be honest and say, no, don't spend the money on a lawyer there. Do spend the money on
a lawyer there. And here's some things in the background to prep you to decrease your cost.
And here's some stuff you can do on your own. That doesn't exist. I'm telling you, this does
not exist. 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. Yeah, we love Peter. We always
constantly are learning from Peter. And sending everybody his way. So get in. I couldn't endorse
it more strongly. And Peter himself, he's just one of the best. And by just getting that added
engagement, you benefit through his tremendous experience. That's the intangible part of all
this is the community and Peter's leadership. If you are definitely have an idea with regards
to producing something in the marketplace, you already know that you need to go into the patent
world. And Peter Neves, that training was amazing. That's his specialty. That's what he does so well.
And that was, I'm telling you right now, midway through, I was like, yo, this was worth all the
money plus some, you know. So if you're definitely have an idea in your heart, a dream in your spirit,
I would suggest that you go to the Protect Your ID channel. This side by side, step by step,
click by click, trademark application in the VIP, life changing. Like it slayed a giant for me.
That has been looming over my head, intimidating me for a long time. And that giant did enslave.
Hey, Peter, Peter, Peter.
That, that, that, that ending that they did that, that is like, so I, I just got that last night.
What, what a blessing. Yeah, just, I wanted to share that with you for a number of reasons. One
is I want to congratulate all of you for being involved in this. You're, you are,
you're picking up skills that you likely have not heard of before, but at the same time,
you're applying them. Like there's a lot of people that learn things, but then never apply them.
And so it's just a waste of time. But the questions that you're asking, the things that
you're engaging on, it's making it very clear that you're going to apply what you're actually
using. And so I'm really happy to see that many of the people that were in that video also are
involved in something that I'm going to tell you about in about 20 minutes. I'm going to talk a
little bit about some trademark issues and copyright issues that some of you mentioned,
and then jump into patent law. But then I'm going to reveal something for you. That's really special
that a number of
people have been jumping into and that I really enjoy doing, and I added another perk into that
literally two days ago. Because remember how I told you in the beginning, email me and go live
so I know what you need? Those of you that have been doing that, I've been customizing a package
for you based on what you've been saying that you need in your own businesses. That's part of why I
asked you to do that. So I'm glad you guys have been doing that. So let me talk a little bit
at a top level. Let me back up the screen a little bit. There we go. Let me talk at a top level a
little bit about the trademark issue again. Because I had a few people asking for implementation
purposes, can I take somebody else's trademark and then add something to it? Or can I kind of
modify their trademark to make sure that it's just slightly different and then add my part to it?
But what if I do a trademark search and somebody actually has something that's very similar to
mine, can I add a word to it? No. I'm just giving you a simple answer. It's easier for you
not to try to manipulate things to get something similar. I'll go back to the Nike example.
Let's say you have Mikey for shoes. And you're saying, well it starts with an M
and theirs start with an N. So it's not exactly the same. It's not spelled the same, but it sounds
the same. Same product, same goods, same service, or same price point, same place that it's sold.
But there's an M on it. So to try and make it better, I'm going to write Mikey Flight.
Right? So that's what I'm going to do. Mikey Flight. Thinking to yourself, well I've added a
word, so isn't that better? I can tell you in the analysis in court, like as I've litigated,
the courts look at it and they take that word alone and then they look in your trademark and
they look for that word alone. And they do that comparison. So you got to be careful. So
for some of you that are asking how much can you manipulate, or I shouldn't use the word
manipulate, how much can you change something that already exists to make it work for you?
Stay as far away as you can. It's just, it's not worth it. In litigation, to give you guys an idea,
patent litigation can cost you $2 million to $10 million. Trademark litigation can cost you
probably a quarter of a million to about $2 million. Copyright litigation might be around
quarter of a million to about $2 million. These things, you just don't want to do them.
Right? Now, if you're on the other side of it, if you own the IP, that's powerful. Now it's,
it's a whole different ballgame because now when you tell the other side to stop,
they don't want to spend the money on attorneys. So therefore they settle and they move away.
No magic eight ball needed. What in the world, April? So that's, so yeah. Okay. So that was a
trademark issue on the copyright side. Some of you are authors. How many people here are authors?
Just raise your hand again. Wow. That's a lot of authors. Okay. So there's a lot of authors here.
So here's the thing. Just be careful when you're signing up with a publisher or when you start to,
like, if you put your books on Amazon or other places, read the agreement, please.
Like make sure you read that in detail because a lot of them are very restrictive on what you can
do with your book after you place it on their platform. Right? This also pertains to journals.
If I write an article for the American Bar Association and I publish it there,
what, what people like myself typically do is we try to rework the article, right? So I wrote
one article. Then I just change it a little bit. I grab a portion of it, add some new rewrites. Now
I got another article, but I didn't really re write an entire article. I just rewrote
the first article. Now, what do I do? I go to law 360 and I publish it there.
Then I republish it in another place, another place, and it increases recognition of that issue.
Right? So you may be thinking, well, I can do that. There are some publishers that will not
let you rework your work. And if they find out after, and I'm telling you this now, because I
know there's a lot of authors here, and I know many people don't understand this, is that you,
then you're finishing with one publisher and then you say, well, I'm going to create an offshoot of
that. And you start to spend all the time and money creating another book. You get a copywriter,
you finalize everything. You spent like $25,000 to get this other book lined up and you're ready
to publish it. You send it out.
And then you get a notice from your first publisher.
And the first publisher says, you're
in violation of our agreement.
You just spent $25,000 getting the second book in a queue.
And many times, you're in an agreement with a party
to produce a book on a specific timeline.
And so now, you're up against a deadline.
So you handed out that book.
But the problem is, you can't use that book
because it's the derivative of the first book.
And the one who owns the copyright on the first book
is the first publisher.
So please be careful.
I've seen nightmares in this area.
And you guys shouldn't have to go with that.
Read the document.
If you're ever in an accident, what happens?
The insurance company comes over to you
and tries to get you to sign a document immediately, right?
I'll give you a check for $2,000 if you sign this document.
Second you sign that document, what have you done?
You can't sue them for back issues, neck issues,
your wrist hurting later, nothing.
Everything's been waived.
So make sure you read your agreements, OK?
All right, with that, I'm going to start
jumping into patent law.
And let me see if there's, let me see.
Of the three topics, patents, trademarks, copyrights,
how many people here by a show of hands
feel that copyright is most important to them?
Just by, OK, OK.
And then how about trademarks?
Just raise your hand.
OK, that's about even.
And then how about patents?
Raise your hand, like inventions.
1, 2, 3.
All right, so there's the lowest number on the patent area,
which is what I kind of figured was going to happen.
So for that reason, I've redacted
some of the material on the patent side
to give you some bonus stuff in the trademarks and copyrights,
OK?
So I'm going to go over some certain issues
that you need to know in the patent world.
It'll take maybe 25 minutes max, OK?
And then if any of you are like, Peter,
you're this patent litigator.
And I signed up because I wanted to hear
you talk about 35 USC section 101
on unpatentable subject matter.
First of all, if that's truly you,
I will take you out to dinner.
And we could hang out because my wife will not
talk about that with me.
She will leave the restaurant.
So I will personally take you out to dinner.
And we could talk about 35 USC all you want, OK,
in that evening.
Two hours, two hours, OK?
I need two hours minimum of your time
because I want to bore you as much as I can, OK?
Now, if that's not your case, then obviously you
can just email me and I'll be happy to talk to you
a little bit more.
All right, with that, let's jump into a little bit
about patents.
Now, here's the way patents work.
You should all understand this because quite often you'll
see a device, and on the device it says P-A-T-N-O,
and then there's a number, right?
That's placing you on notice that that product
or that service is protected by a patent, OK?
That's what it's doing.
It's helping you understand that, all right?
The reason why they're placing you on notice
is because now that you are placed on notice,
they get damages, OK?
The whole infringement game is about damages.
Who cares if you infringe if I can't get anything out of it,
right?
Why would I spend all this money on trying to get something
if I can't enforce it?
That doesn't make any sense, all right?
So here's what happens.
A patent allows you to stop others
from making, using, selling, or importing the technology.
Making, using, selling, or importing, OK?
Why is this important?
That means if you get a patent on your cell phone,
there you go, that's my cell phone, and that's my image,
the lion on fire right there.
So that's my cell phone, right?
It's a Samsung.
So let's say you get a patent on this.
Anybody makes something similar, they infringe.
They use it.
That means the customers, they infringe.
They import it from China or from another location.
They infringe.
You have all these rights.
Patents are the most expensive legal rights
you will ever pay for.
But they're also the most powerful, all right?
A single patent, a single patent,
an infringement of one patent resulted in an over $100
million decision, OK?
Just one patent.
That's how powerful they are, OK?
So you get to stop others from making, using, selling,
or importing.
Patents do not, please hear this part,
patents do not allow you to make, use, sell, or import
anything.
Now some of you are probably thinking, what?
That doesn't make sense.
I thought the reason why I filed a patent, just to be clear,
I'm going to go back to copyrights and trademarks
in a few seconds.
But I just want to cover some stuff in patent law.
You're probably thinking, well, hold it.
The reason why I filed a patent is so I can make the product
and make money.
No.
The reason why you filed a patent
is so nobody else can make the product
and make money off of your idea.
You see, the government has patents on satellites,
but there's no room with satellites sitting in them.
All right?
They have patents on different like ballistic things.
They don't have to make them all.
You don't actually have to make anything to own a patent.
That's the beauty of patents.
You don't actually have to make anything.
You can have a great idea.
Say, you know, I got this great idea for this new bicycle.
Instead of having spokes, it's going to have a disc.
And so, but you never made one.
So you write a patent and then you sell it
to some company that makes bikes
and you make $2 million and you did nothing
when it came to manufacturing.
You just, that idea came to you.
This is one of the most powerful areas
when it comes to receiving an idea from God.
This is one of the most powerful areas you will see
because you get this idea, this concept for an invention
and you're like, well, I don't have the money to make it.
So what?
Write a patent.
You write a patent on it, what can you do?
You can sell that patent to a corporation
and make tons of money.
I have friends.
I have a friend of mine, Yoder Binder out in Israel.
He blows my mind.
He actually, okay, I'm going to tell you something
about Yoder because he's not going to see this video.
So here's the thing, I believe, I believe love was involved
but I think there was another agenda that was also involved
in who he married, all right?
So here's the reason why I say this.
Yoder Binder is a remarkable inventor, remarkable.
He's known in Israel.
He's a good friend of mine.
He actually got me into Israel.
I taught at the University of Tel Aviv.
They gave me the certificate and everything.
I taught on entrepreneurship and patents
and other things like that.
Yoder had tons of patents in his name.
He writes them all himself, right?
He came up with this one patent for logos.
Now here's the thing with patents.
You don't actually have to come out with something
that's completely different from another party.
It can be similar, but not obvious.
You can do that, all right?
This is what he did.
He wrote a patent on logos, but what he did was
he curated a conductive circuit between every logo, right?
So when you connect all the logos,
it makes a light pattern.
So all the logos have LEDs, right?
And they're transparent and so translucent.
And so when you put them all together, as you connect them
it completes an electric circuit.
Now you've created this thing and you can turn it
into any color you want through an LED controller.
Made a ton of money from logo.
So the people that actually create the logos,
like all he did was he wrote the patents.
Then he called them up and he said,
hey, I wanna have a meeting with you.
They signed a nine disclosure agreement.
And the next thing you know, he's getting tons, tons,
I mean, lots of money.
He's made a lot of money on this, right?
Why do I mention the relationship thing?
Well, after Yoder had about 30, 40 patents,
all of a sudden he just mysteriously fell in love
with this woman who ironically was a patent attorney.
I'm gonna leave it at that, all right?
I'm stopping there.
I'm sure they were in love.
Yoder, if you ever see this, I love you.
You had a lot to do with my career.
I'm very grateful.
All right, so moving on from Yoder Binder.
Patents do not allow you to make you sell
or import anything.
What they do is that they will allow you to stop others
from making, using, selling or importing, okay?
So here's the thing.
You have an option.
Your option is to own one of these two things.
Everybody has to type in the chat
which of the two you wanna own, okay?
You can own a stool that has a base and three legs.
April, you can't answer.
Don't even think of answering.
So three, it has a base.
Yeah, you neither, Helene.
We're talking to alumni here.
You can't answer.
So there's a base and three legs, or you can own a chair.
A chair has a base, four legs, and a back, okay?
Number one is the stool.
Number two is a chair.
You can get a patent on either one.
The stool, a base with three legs,
or number two, the chair,
which is a base, four legs, and a back.
Which patent do you want?
Type in the chat, number one or number two.
Stool, chair, chair, chair, number two.
Number two, stool.
I didn't know that was gonna happen, guys.
I had no, this is the first time I have ever noticed
that somebody typed number two and then stool came up.
That's just kind of.
Funny. All right. So today is kind of a hilarious night, I'm noticing. So
how do you recover from that? Number two stool. I don't even know how you recover.
All right. So here's the thing. You would rather own the patent on the stool,
the one you sit on. Okay. You'd rather own the patent on the stool. Here's the reason why.
The stool, the claims of the stool will declare a base and at least three legs, right?
Well, what do you have when you make a chair? You have a base and at least three legs.
You're just adding another leg and a back. So that means the person who makes the chair
infringes the patent on the stool. So you'd rather, remember this guys, you always want
a patent with broader claim coverage. The broader your claim coverage, the more powerful the patent.
If you're ever in a situation where you hire a patent attorney to write a patent, do not,
do not, do not, please do not allow that patent attorney to write a claim. That's like a page
and a half long. The claims actually, they cover what you own. They come at the end of the patent.
If you ever look up a patent, you'll see with matter of fact, I'll pull up one while I'm
talking. They'll list out every single element of the invention that you need to infringe the
patent. So let me pull up, I'm going to pull up a really quick one. Let's just do a patent number
search. We're going to randomly, somebody type in the chat a number that starts with the number six
and has seven digits. We're going to see just how, how interesting. Oh my gosh, that was quick,
man. All right. That was quick. Let's see what we get. Paste, search.
Let's see what April declared. Oh my gosh, April. Okay. This is a very technical patent.
All right. I'm going to show you guys something real quick. Let me share my screen.
Here's the patent that April picked through her number. Methods and apparatus for inhibiting
infection of subcutaneously implanted devices. Okay. So they're planted underneath your skin,
right? So this, this is right up there with like the new world order, right? It's kind of like
scanning, you know, marketer beast. Anyways. So let's move on from that. I'm just going to show
you the claims real quick. This is what the claims look like at the end of the patent.
You'll see a section here. Let me just make this bigger. Plus, plus, plus. Okay. Can everybody see
that right there? See the number one? What is claimed is number one. Those are called the
claims of the patent. To infringe the patent, you must have every single thing in this claim.
Everything. You have to have the, you have to actually perform the method here and you have
to include injecting a Washington fluid into or about the implanted blah, blah, blah. Like you
have to have every single part of this claim to infringe it. Okay. So if the claim was an entire
page long and there were like 19 different elements to the claim, then all somebody has
to do to make sure that they don't infringe is not include one element of the claim. This is why
I wanted to teach you guys this. If you're ever in a situation where you get a download, like this
brilliant download of an idea, you want to make absolutely sure that the claims of the patent
that are written by your patent attorney are not so voluminous that one person can remove one
element and not infringe the claim. That's really, really, really important. Okay.
All right. And with that, I'm going to share something with you guys. That is, I don't know,
this is, this is a lot of fun. So I want to share something that I'm making available to you. And
then we're going to jump a little more into patents in the copyrights. Okay. So as you can
imagine, there are a lot of things in intellectual property law, a lot. We've like scratched the
service. There are some people here like Amy Nelson here and, and Helene Schmidt and April
Parsons and, and Jill Wolf and others that, that understand more about IP. They're implementing it
in their businesses right now. Matter of fact, Jill, like she actually has a product and she's
actually, you know, actually gone through sales of the product, production of the product, you
know, distribution, like she's pretty deep into this. Helene actually has patents in her name.
You know she understands the system very well, you know, and so IP is very powerful and I've
been teaching you.
little bits of it, but there's a lot more as you can imagine. As you try to implement the things
that I've been teaching you, you're going to run into snags. It's just, it's inevitable. You know,
you're trying to figure out, is this search good enough? You know, should I hire this lawyer for a
patent or not? Well, I'm making something available to you that's going to make it a lot easier for
you. All right. So what I'm introducing to you now is called the protection portal. This is
something that I'm making available to you because you've been in the challenge. You can't
get into the portal without going through a challenge. I'm going to share my screen with you
and show you a little bit about this. Let's put it in present mode. Okay. So the protection portal,
these are the features of the protection portal. All right. I vent all the people that will
potentially go into protection portal, because I need to make sure that let's just say to certain
people you don't want in that group, let's put it that way. Everybody here's fine, but we've
had situations where people just try to speak very highly of themselves and monopolize things.
And I like to keep a very collegial and amicable and learning environment. And so this is what the
protection portal is going to offer you. We get together once a month, right? For an hour and a
half, we answer all your questions. You get to email me your questions directly. I review them.
We go over them kind of similar to VIP, but it's kind of like VIP on
caffeine or steroids or something like that. It's a lot higher level. Okay. I'm going to walk you
through all the things that you're going to receive in the protection portal. All right. First of all,
we have the monthly trainings for an hour and a half every month for a full year. It's not three
months. It's an entire year. So as you're implementing all these things that you're learning
through the challenge and you have questions, you can bring them in. We don't give legal advice,
but we do make it so that you'll understand a lot of the concepts here. Oh yeah. I didn't drink.
I didn't drink. I'm drinking now. Number two, many of you are doing either manufacturing or
distribution in other countries. Okay. Where you need attorneys that are in Canada, that are in
Europe, in Germany, in Japan. You might do manufacturing, Malaysia, Indonesia, wherever it is,
or you're selling books or publishing in other areas and you need lawyers.
I have a network where there's lawyers in every single country. I have lawyers,
people that I know personally that I send work to that send work to me. So I vented these people
out by being in the protection portal in that community. I share these contacts with others.
A number of people have actually used them already. Like Paula Clancy at Galling in Canada.
All right. Another thing that we provide, you get to, like I said, continuously email me your
questions. We'll review those. I also drop a lot of additional information for you in the,
in the private Facebook group. There's a separate private Facebook group that provides that
on top of that. Like I mentioned, you get the year membership. Now the cost for that is 2495,
one payment, a 2495 or three payments of 995. Now you guys are a little different.
You guys are a little different because a number of you are actually starting to do searches
yourself and you're trying to figure out, I'm not really getting this. I don't understand this thing.
So what I do is I added something new for you that Jill didn't see. Amy didn't see. Don't get mad at
me guys. All right. We'll talk separately. I'll take care of you guys. Larissa didn't see. April
didn't see. And so what I'm going to do for all the people who join the protection portal this time
is I'm going to have a separate class where I'm going to sit down with you for an hour or two.
All of you are going to come in and we're going to do live searching together. You get to bring
your own situations in. Now this isn't legal advice. I'm just going to guide you through the
site and I'm going to tell you other ways to do your searches. As an example, if you're doing a
trademark search for Nike, I'll walk you through the Mikes. I'll walk you through different
international classes. I'll walk you through what might be similar to look at that you might want to
check out just to be careful. Again, it's not legal advice, but it's getting it so that you
are very prepared. Very prepared. All right. Yeah, I didn't drink. Sorry. Thank you, April.
So I'm throwing that in for you. I'm also including something that's pretty unique that
we created very recently. I think this is the last thing I'm going to.
throw in. Basically, what I'm trying to do is equip you as the best I can to make sure
that you succeed because your ideas are important. You're important. And honestly, if God's downloading
things on you guys, it's my job with my skill set to make sure you're prepared to succeed.
That's my job. Because I can do that. And so I want to try to do that the best way possible.
So I'm giving you one other thing. Now, this is not, this is not a guarantee that this
will exist for all time. This is something I'm doing now to give to you. And as far as
I'm concerned, I'm going to continue, but, but at least for the year, but I just want
to show you what I'm giving you here. This is called the protection portals room. Okay.
This room has all the videos, your challenge videos, it has your VIP videos, and we're
starting to upload now all the protection portal videos all in one place. Every single
one of you to sign up for the protection portal is going to receive your own sign up for this
room. It's locked. You can't get in here. Okay. So you will receive your own login username
and password. You type that in and then you get in here and all your videos are here.
Like there's the April session. There's a July sessions. There's bonus material. There's
other stuff that's going to be uploaded here. All of September for all of you that are,
that are actually, you know, attending here, we'll be in here. Now you're going to have
access to the videos that are within your challenge. If you want access to something
from another challenge, we can talk about that. There's an upgrade cost for that, but
all of your videos, if you're in VIP, there'll be in here for the whole year, your challenge,
there'll be in here for the whole year and your protection portal access. We'll all be
in here for the entire year. Okay. That's a lot. That's a lot. 2495 guys. That is dirt cheap for
all that stuff you're getting. I bill at $600 an hour. I'm giving you 18 hours of my time.
Okay. Why am I doing this? Because I want to see you guys succeed. The more of you that succeed,
quite frankly, the better things that happen on this planet. And we need a lot of good things.
So I, with that, I want to introduce a few people to, um, people that are really dear to me that
have actually volunteered their time, which amazes me. They're here now. Uh, let me start with Amy
Nelson. So hi, Amy. Hi, how are you? I am good. Good. Um, it just warms my heart that Amy and
Jill and others are here. Uh, they're so supportive and Amy is actually in the protection portal.
And so maybe you could take a minute to just kind of talk about like where you were.
And then when you joined the portal and what you've gained from it, maybe just to help people
out a little bit. Thank you. So I joined back in the spring. I believe I came into your protection
portal. I was actually an entrepreneur who had a product and a patent. So I came in, um, and Peter,
my first day experience into the protection portal was, he said, I'd really love to review your
patent. And if it's okay to go over it in the protection portal with everybody. And, um, my
husband, um, is not here tonight, but he says it's a Lowe's. Uh, my husband is actually very involved
in intellectual property. He, uh, works at a very large corporation and he also this year is the
chairman of the intellectual property, best practices, uh, amazing. Yeah. God's poured out
so much favor on him. And I believe that favor comes from you too, Peter. So, so it's just been
a huge blessing. Um, so when we came in, we, we, you know, we had some actually intellectual
property knowledge and information. Um, but Peter just also added tremendously to what we already
knew, but then took us to the next level of even like looking more carefully at our patent,
understanding the nuances in it. And we really were like, Oh, that are our patent attorney who
took us through that patent process. Uh, you know, and then he was what I was impressed with Peter is
when you went through like, Oh, I see what they did. And you went through the whole legal, um,
cause it took us a couple of years to get that patent, the whole process. And you walked us
through the whole process of why the lawyers did what they did. And so it was really helpful for
us to get even more information on what we had already done. And then, um, we had a recent pivot
where we formed a nonprofit organization of five Oh eight C one a, and, uh, we're in the midst of
getting all of that trademarked and set up and run well. And, um, actually I just had some new news
that I'm going to be heading over.
to use for three months and doing some amazing things
with the Lord, I'm so excited.
And I'm like, Peter, do I find my trademark now?
What do I do?
And he's like, well, you could do an intent to use.
And so just that accessibility
and doing all that has been huge.
So I just really,
the one thing I really wanna highlight Peter
is not only you, but the entire community
when you come in like Helene and April and Jill,
it's truly iron and I'm getting such a witness right now.
Oh my gosh.
It's really iron sharpening iron
although it's irons sharpening irons.
And everyone is here to build the kingdom
to really make an impact,
but to protect and do it with wisdom
and information that we're totally equipped
to move forward and also preventatively.
So the other favorite thing in the group
I'll have to admit is when we all sit there in the group
and wait for Peter to say, this is not legal advice.
And then we take a drink of water, it's super fun.
So it's a fun community, you're not sitting there going,
oh my God, do I have to go through more legal stuff?
It's like, everybody's into it.
And we're like, not legal advice, let's move.
So it's super fun invigorating.
So there's like information in the portal,
but the community is like phenomenal.
Amen.
Oh, that's so good.
Learn and hydrate, right?
That's so good.
Inside of us are rivers and living water, right?
That's so good.
Water, water.
We're literally bringing water to the body of Christ.
That's so good.
All right, so I'm gonna share the link right now.
And then I'm gonna ask Jill
if she can bless us with a moment here.
This is the link right here to sign up right now.
Again, it's 24.95, one payment,
or you can divide it into three payments of 9.95.
I would take advantage of this, guys.
The cost is going up.
I've had people telling me this is,
anyways, I'll leave it at that.
The cost is going up over time.
So feel free to jump in.
And I would encourage you to jump in
as your businesses are growing now.
So I would do that.
And let me share Jill with all of you.
Jill is a blessing.
She implements things.
Like she actually does it.
There's certain people that learn
and just continue to learn and they grow,
but she's actually doing it.
She's publishing books.
Her questions are brilliant.
They actually make me think, which is pretty powerful.
I love when I get questions like that.
You and Crystal, like Kristen, Crystal,
you guys have very powerful questions.
So let me just share all of you, Jill.
And if you maybe can do something similar to what Amy did,
just kind of give them an idea
to give them some guidance to help them out.
Yeah, thank you for that intro.
Wow.
Some of us in there like to see,
I don't know that we intentionally come in
trying to ask you questions to stump you,
but we bring the ones that we know,
we've tried to figure out or find answers to ourselves.
And we can still,
and you can go out there and search
and not find the right answers or even ones you trust.
And so knowing that we've got this expert in the portal
that will come to us and give us not legal advice,
but wisdom and insight without trying to just,
it's just very respectful the way he does it.
And so just thank you, Peter, for this community.
I write storybooks and I am now working with other authors
to write storybooks.
So I have manuscript protection
and my storybooks have illustrators.
So now we're dealing with an artist.
You have a collaborative piece of IP.
And so how do you navigate that with copyrights,
with license, knowing,
well, I'm gonna promote this book and sell it.
So how do I figure that out with an illustrator
and where we're gonna go, what we might use this for?
So there's, I have tons of questions around that
that I've been able to bring to the conversation.
And so this portal has been hugely helpful for that.
I just formed my LLC, whoop, whoop.
And I have to say, I knew all my info going in
about what I needed to have and what I needed to check.
So when I gave them a name,
I'd already done a trademark search
because I wanted to trademark a portion of my name,
my company name.
I'd already done my LLC.
So like I'd already done all the homework.
And so when I gave them this, they're like,
yeah, we're pretty sure you're gonna have this.
Like, they were impressed
that I had already thought through these things.
Then I said, well, you don't know Peter Near, this guy.
Oh, that's great, that's great.
So I said LLC and then as I'm working with authors,
it's been, I've been able to now offer the idea
that I understand protection of their work.
So even in my challenges, in my coaching sessions,
I'm talking to them about how are you protecting this?
And when I do any contracts with illustrators,
I'm talking to both, how are you protecting this?
And that's just not language or anything
I could include in my offer before.
So understanding that aspect of it is making me a,
well, as Pedro would say, more skills,
more expertise that I can bring in.
And so it makes me higher value for what I'm offering.
Very well said.
And guys, what she just said right there is really priceless.
Now, this is not a gimmick.
As you increase your skillset,
you can increase your cost, right?
Your value increases.
And it's very important for you to understand
how valuable you are, how valuable your skillsets are
and your gift things are.
You know, you're essentially honoring
what God has placed in you
when you respect the value that you have, you know?
And so that's something for you to keep in mind.
It's like, well, if you're thinking to yourself,
well, I don't know if I can increase my cost that much.
It feels kind of weird.
Well, ask yourself, what's my gift set compared to others?
You now have IP on your menu.
Guys, there are not many coaches out there
that know anything about IP.
You do now.
Like, you can actually be coaching somebody
and they talk to you about,
oh, I'm going to a trade show or something.
And you know what?
I'm gonna talk to you a little bit more
about patents for a few minutes.
You'll understand that they should be considering things
like provisionals or utilities.
I mean, you'll see them say,
oh, I'm going to form an LLC, like Jill said.
And you'll ask them, did you do a trademark search?
And they'll say, what's that?
Like, you just increased the value for them.
So you should be okay with charging more for your time.
And you should be compensated more for your time
because you've increased the value.
Go ahead, Jill.
Did you have anything else you wanted to add?
Yes, I have three more bullet points on my list.
Okay, Jill.
I do, I have all my bullets right here.
Jill is comprehensive.
Go for it, girl.
So part of storybook writing and creation
is then, well, we want to sell it.
Well, books are selling internationally
through Amazon, through other places.
So now I'm looking at,
and some of my illustrators are international.
So how am I weaving in, well, copyright,
U.S. copyright or federal registration is U.S.
What do I have to be considering now
for an international illustrator
or an international deal or selling books?
I just had the privilege of selling some books
to a little country in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
So I sent a bunch of books.
Well, what is, how do I protect myself
as I'm selling overseas?
So there's so many questions I didn't even know to ask
till I got in the portal.
Like I knew of like maybe this many questions
and now like there's lots of questions.
So I'd encourage you that one of the biggest things
that I've appreciated about the portal
is that the people in there,
sometimes if they're a step ahead
or they're doing something similar,
they're asking the questions
that you didn't even know you needed to ask
or that you didn't know how to word.
And so it's just such an incredible place then to go,
yeah, I need to know that too.
Oh yeah, that's a question that I needed some answers on.
That's literally how it plays out, guys.
Just so everybody understands,
that's how it plays out is you'll find people,
you may be thinking to yourself,
she's talking about publishing in other countries.
I'm just trying to publish my first book.
Well, that means that she has gone through
what you're going through now.
And so she will be able to provide feedback.
It's not just me.
This portal has really turned into a wealth
of knowledge and wisdom of multiple parties
that are helping each other out.
It's really, I mean, it's an incredible honor
for me to even be part of this, quite frankly.
So go ahead, Jill.
Okay, my last two, last two.
The relationships I've built in here,
I will say through the portal,
I trust more than relationships anywhere else.
So I have actually, as I listened to the people in there,
they are the ones I want to hire.
They are the ones I want to partner with.
They are the coaches I want to work with
because they have already been thinking
and have invested in themselves to be in a place
that's about protecting their ideas
and protecting people they work with.
So I just feel there's a level of integrity in this group
that for me is providing the kind of people
I want to work with.
So I really appreciate that.
And finally, when it came to looking at the dollar
that this costs, at first I was like, wow, but.
when you find out the hourly cost of an attorney. What is it? 600 bucks an hour, Peter?
600 an hour. Yeah.
If I can save myself five hours of attorney time,
five hours by coming in and asking these questions, instead of going to an attorney
and having 10 questions and them taking two to three hours, four hours, and then charging me
for that. If I can, for a whole year, I'm like, I don't even know all the questions and issues I'm
going to come up with in the next year, but it certainly can save me six hours of attorney time.
So for me, when I did that cost analysis, for me, it was a no-brainer.
So I just wanted to- That's so well said.
And I thank you, Jill, for your time and what you explained, because I'm sure other people
are considering this as well. And there's something about understanding that as you
start to implement what you've learned, you're going to have questions. It's just going to happen.
Like you're going to say, okay, well, now I understand how to do a trademark search. I just
filed my trademark application. All of a sudden you get a rejection for likelihood of confusion,
or even worse, like they say, well, your trademark application is merely descriptive.
And you go, what in the world does that mean? Well, you can come into the portal and say, hey,
I just got a rejection on my trademark application. They said, it's merely descriptive.
What does that mean? And I can walk you through, well, merely descriptive means blah, blah, blah.
You need to respond with blah, blah, blah. This is not legal advice, blah, blah, blah. Literally,
I'll walk you through it. And then you take all your notes and you say, okay, I need to draft this.
And you can start drafting your own response and then give it to your attorney. So now what happens
instead of spending five hours on an attorney, six hours on an attorney for a response to an
office action, you're spending two. You're spending like an hour and a half. And this adds up through
an entire year as you're starting to grow as a company, or as you're starting to try new things,
this adds up very fast. I know because I'm dealing with this all the time. So thank you both for your
time. You're amazing. I think I'm going to stop there and jump a little bit more into trademarks,
copyrights, and patents. I dropped the link. I would strongly encourage you to take advantage
of this. This doesn't exist. You're not going to see anything like this. No lawyer wants to
spend 18 hours with people who are just learning things and get paid essentially an eighth of what
their time would be paid for. No lawyer is going to do that. I do this because it's fun. I mean,
I really enjoy this in case you haven't figured it out. That's where my corny jokes come from and
everything. So yeah, go ahead and click the link. Jump in. If you have questions, you can email me
or you can DM me. Happy to touch base with you. The offer closes Sunday night. All right. You have
tonight, Friday, Saturday, Sunday to make up your mind. Then it closes. Then we're going to be
moving towards some other things. And then there's also the other thing with the portal is the people
who are in the portal get first access to everything that comes out. Oh, I forgot to
mention this, Ray. I didn't even mention this. If you're in the portal, you get to join any single
challenge for free. Any of the future Protect Your Idea challenges, they're included. So you don't
have to pay again to jump into the challenge. And that's why you'll see every once in a while,
alumni will jump in here and start saying, hey, I need a refresher on that. But if you want to go
into VIP, you do have to join VIP and pay a price for that. Because VIP, you're asking your personal
questions. And I don't want to steal time away from all of you who have invested in this the
first time. I try to be fair. All right. Let's jump into a little bit more. Oh, thank you, April.
Let me jump in a little more on patents real quickly. And then I'm going to close with
copyrights, trademarks. And then it's going to take five minutes. Then we'll take a break and
we'll jump into VIP. Those in VIP, you can ask more questions there, OK? Remember, we do have
another session tomorrow. I'm going to be bringing everything together. Patents, trademarks, copyrights.
We're going to go back into that scenario when we started out. And I'm going to allow you to ask
one or two questions that I will answer before we close, OK?
Ray, I'm going to give him another bonus. I need to stop this.
I need to stop this. It just occurred to me. How many of you are dealing with logos? Just
raise your hand. Yeah, see, that's why it occurred to me. So I felt led to do this. So what I'm going
to do is tomorrow I'll reveal it in more detail, but I'm going to show you guys how to search
logos. There's a unique way to search logos that you can't do like wordmarks. It's a whole other
realm. So I'm going to show you that tomorrow. And your yeah, the admission ticket for that.
All right. So tonight you're going to see posted in Facebook group and you also get an email.
that is asking you to fill out a survey. Just tell me how you feel about the challenge,
rate it, have fun with it. Those are really important. So if you want to show me just how
much you're enjoying this, fill out the survey because it's very valuable to me.
But you'll see that separate in another email. So let me go back into patents for a second.
All right. In the patent realm, there's three statutory bars, okay? There's the offer for
sale bar, there's the publication bar, and then there's the public use bar, all right?
What these bars are, they're not places that you drink and have a great evening. These bars are
different, okay? The way these bars work is if you do any of the following things that I say,
you have one year in the United States to file a patent. If you don't, your invention is considered
donated to the public. That's a big deal, guys. I've known of pharmaceutical companies that have
invested millions of dollars in their technology, in FDA approval, just to find out that somebody
in marketing offered the product for sale more than one year prior to their filing of a patent
application, and their pharmaceutical product is donated to the public, all right? This has
happened multiple times. So the offer for sale bar, basically what it says is if the invention
is pretty much ready for patenting, and there's a commercial offer for sale, you add those two
things together, the clock starts. You have one year from that date to file a patent. Some of you
might be thinking, well, hold it. I'm trying to figure out if people are interested in this thing.
I don't have the money to file a patent. That's usually what people think. They're like, I don't
have the money to file a patent. Now you're telling me I can't offer it for sale to make money to then
file the patent? No, you can, but you have one year to file that patent. If you don't, it's donated to
the public, okay? That means anybody can take that technology, and you can't do anything about it,
all right? Now the publication bar, if the invention is described in some medium
that's readily available to the public, think of something like a white paper, or think of
on your website, you start bragging about your invention, and you describe it in intricate detail.
That can be considered a publication of your invention. You have one year from that date to
file a patent. If you don't, it's donated to the public, okay? The last thing is called the public
use bar. The way the public use bar works is if a third party is using the invention for its intended
purpose, and more than one year passes, the invention is considered donated to the public.
All right, let me give you some real-life examples of what I'm talking about here, because you're
probably like, public use? Publication? On sale? This doesn't sound good, but I'm not quite
following it all. Let me give you an example. Public use bar. I create an invention in my garage.
I give it to my next-door neighbor, and I say, hey, test this out, and
give me like 50 bucks, 50 bucks for it, and just kind of test it out. Now, he goes around, he rides,
let's say it's a bicycle. He rides it around town, rides it around town, and doesn't give me any
feedback on it, but he paid a price for it, right? That's a sale. That was an actual offer for sale.
Now, let's say I didn't give him any money. Let's say he didn't give me any money.
That would be really interesting. I create an invention, I give it to somebody, and then I give
them money. That would be really interesting. Show me how to do that one. But let's say instead, I
create the bicycle, I give it to him, and he starts riding it around town, back and forth, back and
forth. He's using it for its intended purpose. If more than one year passes from that date,
donate it to the public. The reason why is the government says if the public is using this thing
for more than one year, you can't all of a sudden say, oh, well, everybody's using it. Now, I'm
going to file a patent and sue people. That's not fair. They don't want you to build up a marketplace
and then file a patent. They want you to file a patent and then build up a marketplace, okay?
So, that's how that works. Offer for sale bar, publication bar, public use bar. Those are the
three bars. So, number one, don't go publishing stuff about your invention. Don't even go talking
about your invention, guys. Even talking about it, we've been talking about the United States.
I'll give you a little, another golden nugget here. In foreign countries, they don't have a
one-year bar. It's immediate. That means in foreign countries, if you start talking about
your invention, it's called
public disclosure.
That disclosure of your invention
can result in you not being able to file a patent
in that country, period.
Nobody's telling you guys this.
There's no grace period, very good.
No grace period in foreign countries.
Now in China, in some other countries,
they have like a three month window.
There's some exceptions in specific countries.
If you're in the portal, you can tell me what country
you're in and I can tell you what the bar is
in that country.
But the point is, in general, don't disclose it,
don't offer it for sale,
and don't give it to your neighbor, all right?
Remember those three things.
Be stingy, be quiet, and make no money.
That's basically what the government says
if you wanna go for a patent, okay?
After you file a patent, they're like,
you can do whatever you want with it, we don't care.
All right, now, I'm just gonna drive this all home
and we're gonna finish here.
We've talked about copyrights, trademarks, and patents.
You can have a single device that has a patent on it,
has a copyright on it, and a trademark.
Do you see that?
You see how that's possible?
On this single cell phone here,
there's a patent on the functionality of the software.
There's a patent, a design patent,
for the look of the patent of the device.
It's also called a Samsung, right?
Samsung, that's the name of the company,
that's a trademark.
The software that's within the phone,
that functionality is covered by copyright.
So you could have one thing
that you have received a download on,
one thing that you have created,
and actually have multiple ways to protect it.
I want you to understand that,
because some people are cutting themselves short,
saying, well, I've got a device,
there's some software on it,
I got a copyright for 65 bucks.
No, you may have a patent,
you may have a trademark for the name of it.
So there's multiple things that are potentially available.
We go into way more detail again in the Protection Portal,
but I'm gonna stop there for now, okay?
If you are in VIP, we're gonna take 10 minutes,
then you can jump into VIP.
In VIP, obviously, you can ask more questions.
Tomorrow, I'll answer any other questions
on the Protection Portal.
Just let me know if you have specific questions.
Happy to help you out.
My intent is to make it as easy as possible
for you guys to receive the knowledge
and wisdom that you need.
And with that, I am jumping off.
Larissa, I'm gonna leave.
Oh, Rae, what's up?
Yeah, do you want me to drop the link
for the feedback form now?
So everyone can-
Oh, you have it?
Did you offer it already?
Already.
Okay, well, superstar Rae already did this.
Did you change the...
It changed from July to September on the form?
Just kidding.
No, I just see it now.
No, that's why I was gonna drop it tonight
so you didn't have to worry about it.
Mild, mild start.
No, I can do it quickly here now,
but just know, guys, it's gonna stay September.
We'll drop it later tonight, yeah.
Thank you so much, Rae.
You're awesome.
Catherine, you're right on.
So quick question about-
Absolutely.
About this, the three bars.
So we only have to pass one of the three bars
or all three bars?
Any one of them.
Any one of those three bars,
and your invention's considered donated to the public.
So if you publish it, but you didn't offer it for sale
and you didn't give it to your neighbor
because you don't like your neighbor,
you still have a problem.
You still can't file a patent on it
if more than one year has passed, okay?
Are there some things that can't be patented?
There are.
Yeah, we'll touch base on that tomorrow.
Okay.
Tomorrow, we're gonna finish off patents
and we're gonna bring in the trademarks and copyrights
into the scenario,
and we'll kind of bring it to a close together.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Larissa, did you have a question?
Oh, no?
Okay.
So I'm gonna jump off.
Bless you guys.
You're amazing.
The other thing that I tend to do tomorrow,
if you have the opportunity to be there,
because I also pray over your companies,
I just wanna make sure that you're all successful.
And look, if you're not a believer,
somebody's got a Christmas gift,
you take it anyway, right?
So take everything you can get.
That's all I'm gonna say.
Whether you believe or not, just receive it.
So, all right, bless you guys.
Have a wonderful evening.
I'm gonna leave you in the capable hands of Larissa
and on 10 minutes, so at 8.19,
I'll see you guys in VIP.
Take care.
Thank you, Peter.
Hey, everybody.
Before you check out or go to take a break before VIP,
let's give some more love.
How good was this?
I mean, that was a little bit,
and there was a lot in there about the patents
and even meeting some of the VIPs that are alumni.
So over.
the chat, you know, let's give some good feedback. Tell us how
much you love today and how powerful, how valuable it was,
if you could. And I left the link for the production portal.
So take a look at that. And you've got it now. So if you're
somebody who's got to look at things, examine things, a lot of
those people in the room, you can start looking at that. So
you can bring some questions back tomorrow. If you've got any
about protection portal. And is it too late to join VIP? I know
it's a silly question. Angelica, you know what, we have had
people join pretty late. What do you say Ray?
Definitely not too late. Because while we're still working out
the technical issues for the replay links, you will have
those replays, they'll be all corrected, they're already on
track to getting fixed up. So you'll be able to even see the
benefits of that plus you'll get 90 days of access to those
replays as well. So definitely come on, come join us.