My illegitemate son has designed an outstanding item, should he patent it ?

Question

It`s a carpet and rug friendly coffee cup,it comes with it`s own

high volume suction hose which is clamped onto the cup and is powered by it`s own miniature electric motor, instantaneously removes spilled coffee from rugs etc. and returns it to cup through a seies of intricate filters,will it be a winner ?

Answer 1

Hmmm it might work, but perhaps you could add an attachment that allows the user to ingeste the coffee directly through his/her belly button, thus saving more energy in not actually having to lift the cup

Answer 2

disgusting

Answer 3

Very few people would be willing to pay $50 for a coffee cup suction machine when they could instead get a $5 coffee cup and simply be careful around carpets.

However, that doesn't mean he shouldn't patent the design.

Answer 4

Why did you include the word "illegitemate"?

No, I don't think it's practical. This coffee cup will weigh 10 pounds and be the size of a large book, too large and heavy for use.

And no way would I want the coffee returned to the cup after it has mixed with the stuff on the floor. I don't care how well it is filtered.

Answer 5

go for it.

Answer 6

sounds good but why you say illegitemate son and not just son thats nasty from a mother

Answer 7

Sorry old thing but I think you`ll find that that`s already been inventes,,It`s called the "Suck-o-matic",,although that could be something else ,not sure,,either way great stuff,I`ll buy 2 dozen

Answer 8

Do you know how much a patent costs to file? It will cost you thousands of pounds in fees. On top of that you then need to pay for fees for protection. Then you will need to pay any legal fees if someone then infringes the patent. And then you'll need to find a company that wants to make your product.

Answer 9

Be sure to include a warning label as follows:-

"Releases minimal radiation to the environment when used exactly as directed"

Answer 10

sure why not... whether it makes any money.. thats a different story

Answer 11

sounds great. Not sure why you need to say he's illegitemate though, does this affect you decision?

Get it patented quickly, then go on Dragons Den.

Answer 12

I think your illegitimate son is on to something. Question: I drink a lot of beer, and I have found that after a time I tend to spill a lot of it on the rug. Could this product be modified to suck up the beer? Perhaps it could filter it out chill it carbonate it  and return it back to the bottle. I'd buy that.

Another thing, my wife drinks all day too but she prefers white wine spritzers. Could you make one that discriminates between white  wine spritzers and beer, filter them, chill them re carbonate them and return them to the glass or bottle. That'd be great too.

I think the de lux version is great. My wife always seems to leave a lot of hair in the bath tub drain after a shower. It sounds like it has the power to suck that all up too. Nice.

I hope your illegitimate son can do it I'll be waiting and so will my wife.

Answer 13

In for 2!

By the way, excellent avatar!

Answer 14

What a load of twaddle!

Answer 15

Yes, if you don't mind a ten year wait at the patent office, oh and you have 40k to spend.

Answer 16

Yes but it might be even better if it included a second and separate irregularly-vibrating motor that automatically spilled some of the coffee onto the rug at unpredictable intervals, so as to repeat the whole cycle and save the user the trouble of spilling it.

Answer 17

Is this question for real?  I hope nobody is really that likely to spill coffee that they would need this.  LOL.  Cute idea though, is this a young kid that thought this up?

Answer 18

I would patent it has it sounds brilliant.Recycled coffee just what we need.Good Luck

Answer 19

do you always refer to him as your illegitimate son, even when it's irrelevant to the question?

and do you always share peoples' invention ideas publicly before they patent them?

but to (sort of) answer your question, i could see sharper image selling something like this, if it was pretty and it actually worked

Answer 20

Patent your sons idea, I have a question though if you drpp the coffee on a carpet or rug where there are other fluids or dry fluids will it also be able to filter all that out or will all that just go back into the coffee?