Can I and if so should I patent a business plan or idea?

Question

I want to know the best approach to getting my business plan to someone and be paid for the idea.

Answer 1

whats your bunissn plan

Answer 2

A patent has to be sufficiently advanced that it is not part of the state of the art. If you patent a business plan, and then others come forward with evidence that it is something they have been doing for a long time, it has been a useless patent.

If your buisness plan is not sold and put into action soon, you will have tipped off competitors who will come up with variants that do not break patent.  So. put your plan into action at the same time as you patent it. In general, whether a business plan or invention, you want to be ready to go with it before the patent office hears of it. You gain protection from application pending.

If someone else gets a patent that you could have received, there is a strong chance this was a state of the art invention.