<span style="font-family: 'Book Antiqua'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#99ff99">"Well..." Tony frowned.  "That depends on how alike the fluid we patent is to what you use in the field.  If the mechanism is different -- I mean, who's going to look at a spray  bottle of wound sealant and think of Spiderman's webs?  I think as long as it looks different, nobody's going to make the connection immediately."  Though he could understand Peter's concern.<br/>
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"Look -- it's up to you if you want to patent them or not.  We could start working on it as a side project -- a real one that we'd be able to show other people.  You can even say you got the idea because of Spiderman... I mean, you live in New York.  It's not weird that you'd see him swinging around and get an idea from it."  Tony ran his hand over Peter's hair.  "Most people seem to think he -- you -- are actually some kind of mutant with real spider glands.  As if anybody but Natasha would have spider glands, hmm?"<br/>
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Tony tugged Peter in for a hug then.  "But it's okay if you don't want to, it was just -- I just want your ideas safe, that's all.  So nobody else can steal the formula, can claim you aren't as brilliant as I know you are.  It can wait."</span></span>