Also, I’ve got a question that I was hoping you might be able to help me find the answer to.

I’ve been working on an idea for an open source product/company for several years, and I’d like to make it a reality, but I wantto protect myself with some kind of patent. Unfortunately, I know nothing about patent law. It complicates the matter that the “product” is more of a business model relating to an array of products than a single “thing”. Is such a thing even patentable? I also don’t know how careful I have to be talking about it because I’ve had ideas stolen from me before because I spoke too freely about them.

Even if you could just point me somewhere else, that’d be great.

Thanks,
Ben

Congratulations on this! I will definitely be watching closely, if not from the sidelines. It’s been a while since we last spoke. Hope all is well.

Eric Y.