First of all, I will say that I am a student, and as such, I can’t afford the time or the money to create a patent on my idea, which is not fully original anyhow. (I will have to spend lots of time and money just figuring out if my idea is patent-able)
I’ll explain it briefly- I thought of a great idea with a moderate potential market, but a great value to the users. The idea is bascially taking idea A+B+C, which already exist. The ideas even exist together, say A+B is already in use, and C is used in same context but not along with A+B currently. My idea is not reflected in these softwares+hardware that is already in use/partial use. Without taking my aspect into account and tweaking and developing minor applications, the current products don’t see my “users” as potentional buyers, or target audience of these products at all, because the product is useless to this group at its current state. The product has no value to my audience at this point.
These A,B,C ideas are all implemented in huge corporations such as google and apple, in one way or another. My idea isn’t really an invention like a lightbulb or something of that sort, but it combines these several aspects in order to form something that isn’t currently on the market.
(I hope you understood me, I even confused myself I guess).
What I am asking is- if I am approaching these huge firms, and suggest my idea, which relies on a technology they own and use in some form, is there any real chance of it developing into a deal between me and the company, about my idea? Are they able to just tell me good bye, and implement it themselves the month after, without me having anything to do about it?
Even if they are interested, and there are some negotiations, does anything protect me from them ditching me down the road and taking the idea as one of their own, without me getting an appropriate compensation for that?
Are there any actions I could use prior to these discussions with the biggest firms on planet earth (also, how do I even contant the right person within the firms to discuss my ideas?), to protect me?
Thanks