[dolly100]

How can I protct my theory if I have?:confused:

[templelane]

What thoery, why do you need to protect it?

[dolly100]

Because I don't want to anyone to steal my theory

[templelane]

You have intellectual property. What type of intellectual property you have depends on how you can protect it.

I doubt you have an actual scientific theory, although you probably have an idea or hypotheisis.

If you have an invention or innovation you can patent it but it must follow these rules
1. Be new
2. Involve an inventive step,
i. not be obvious
3. Be capable of industrial application
4. Not be “excluded”
i. discovery;
ii. A scientific theory
iii. Mathematical method
iv. Aesthetic creation
v. presentation of information
vi. Computer programme
And not be a perpetual motion machine (they added that one in because they were fed up having to explain to people how they are impossible).

A design i.e. shape, pattern or ornament is not patentable but can be the subject of a “design registration”.

Copyright laws vary depending on where you live. I only know the UK system, if you post in the law section (asking about copyright) you can probably get information relevant to the USA.

In the UK it is automatic, however if you need to prove you thought of it first you have to have registered it as copyright. It covers the creative or artistic expression of an idea.

If this is a theory when you publish it the journal will already have copyright laws in place to protect you as the author of the work. However the theories you propose are not copyrighted themselves, nobody actually owns scientific theory, Einstein doesn't own the theory of relativity. They still however get credit for the experiments and conclusions drawn form them that compounded the theory.

So if you record your idea in some way you can protect it via copyright. The way to go about this will vary depending on where you live.

I hope this helps :)

[dolly100]

Thanks for your help:)