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Gary Schuster with the Innovation Cafe and today I want to come up with a little warning for people who have been lucky enough to get a patent issue now of course it’s not pure luck but there is a big element of luck involved you get the right patent examiner you have a good patent lawyer so what happens when you get the patent you start getting phone calls from people hey if you pay me $10,000 I can help you get your patent in front of big stores you start getting letters would you like to buy a $100 patent plaque sometimes you’ll even get patent renewal and listing invoices from other country let say if you want to have your patent listed on our official registry of patents pay us $10,000 there is no official registry of patents at least us patents other than a US patent office so be really careful people are going to want to exploit you people are going to want to take advantage of you and you’re probably so excited that you got the patent that your guard’s not up well here’s your warning keep your guard up until next time signing off