Ask HN: How to file your own patents?
If you don’t even have the financial resources to hire an attorney to draft and file a patent how do you expect to have the resources to (I assume) sue potential infringers?<p>If you want to monetize your inventions file a provisional patent (very cheap) and take a year actually doing something with it - attracting investment for non-provisionals, bringing it to market, etc. If you don’t intend to actually do anything with your inventions other than file patents there’s a term for what you’re describing - patent troll.