The first step that an inventor should take is to secure records which prove the date on which the inventor thought of the invention, dates on which experiments were conducted in perfecting it, and the date it was first used and found to operate satisfactorily. An inventor who has an idea should, as soon as…

To exemplify, let’s suppose there is a company known as Clandestine Tech Ltd who have developed a process whereby known microbes can produce petroleum as a by-product when fed charcoal under certain conditions. Let’s assume the following: Clandestine’s petroleum is identical to that obtained from crude oil so it can’t be reverse engineered; It’s a…