This book will help you to understand all necessary steps for protecting your idea by preparing and filing a Provisional Patent Application and will explain in plain language the difference between patents and patent applications. You will learn about your options on turning your idea into profit. Author had decided to write this book after numerous phone calls and visits to his office of independent inventors, most of whom were not even coming from design or engineering field. Bookkeepers, accountants, machinists, teachers, doctors and people of all sorts of occupations have great ideas and want to do something with them. Many visitors were telling about TV shows, such as "Shark Tank", where they would love to be or where they learned that it is possible to do something about their own great ideas.