After a while, I reached the end of the definition (on paper) of a feature set that I thought was powerful and pretty.

Then, I immersed myself in the incredible resources of the University of Berkeley library system (freely accessible to the community) to see what the scientific community had to say about the topic. Well, it is a huge topic with lots of interesting research, but I didn’t see anything providing the features and benefits of what I had come up with.

I looked at all the creativity tools I could find and did not see anything close there either. So I made a list of all the things I thought I should patent and came up with a few.

I read David Pressman’s “Patent It Yourself” book and sent two preliminary patent applications to the US patent office. David’s book was very clear and complete, but the process took several months and lots of work!