Michael Picciuto's Patent
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Hi, I am Michael Picciuto. I only recently began my college experience at John Caroll University. I came here for the feel of the campus and people, and the Boler School of Business. Despite my recent start in a business college, I have had a long and well known passion (by some family and a few friends) for inventing solutions to every day problems, or in otherwords product ideas. This is the main reason why I came to John Carroll: the presentation of the business school, it's rankings, the efficiency, and the hard results that have been produced through the graduates of the Boler School of Business.
I believed it offered an opportunity for me to build a platform to launch my ideas off of. I was so excited and passionate and then I came to school and slowly fell into being quiet, complacent, and was stagnant. I was afraid of failure, risk of rejection, and looking stupid. I then stopped talking about my ideas, stopped expressing myself, stopped growing, I chose to sit in decay. For my mother and my girlfriend I believe this has been the most painful thing for them to see. This is because I used to be so afraid of failure and not being good enough. I believed I wouldnt ever be good enough based on my experiences growing up, how I thought about myself, and what believes I bought about me and other people. I had this mindset and behavior that I shouldnt even try because people wont listen to me, accept me, and why would they support ME? I stayed quiet, never spoke up, never expressed myself and life SUCKED. I had no passion, no confidence, no excitment; I was just emotionally numb from 5th grade on. Then in my junior year of highschool my mom had proposed the idea that I go to a 3 day personal development course called "The Basic" held by PSI Seminars. I thought she was bat shit crazy and that "personal development" was for people with problems. Little did I know, change didn't mean I had to be bad, wrong, or have issues. When I got to this course, I knew my mother had the best in mind for me and that I should keep an open mind.
Now, please genuinely absorb this: my experience is my experience and no one else can have my expeirence and it is not the only experience people have at these courses, nor is it the right and only way to experience what I am about to describe- for anyone, including you.
The three days of this course were the most eye opening, mind blowing, and amazing three days of my life. I realized that "Hey, you know what, maybe I am good enough." Maybe just because of my past experiences and how I felt at that time, I dont have to feel like that all the time anymore. Maybe I dont have to believe what I have believed about myself for my whole life, anymore. Maybe I can live a life and be how I want to be, who I want to be, where I want to be, and whenever I want to be, whenever I want to be it. I realized that I was enough, that I do have value, and that I can contribute and I am not wrong, nor do I deserve to keep being the person to accept being a doormat.
From this I refound and ignited my passion. I was not going to play football my senior year, a sport that I had played since I was 6 years old. I wasnt going to pursue college football like I had wanted to for so long. I was never going to actually pursue my ideas even though I knew they were awesome, and were billion dollar ideas!
Since then I played football my senior year, and I won a bunch of awards. I am currently playing college football. And now I am pursuing my goal of launching my future endeavors of inventing my ideas. As I stated earlier, I have recently been stagnant, complacent and uninspiring. I said that it must have been painful for my girlfriend and my mother to watch me go from: excited, connected, loving, passionate; right back to being numb and dead. This is because my amazing beautiful girlfriend, who just recently took the 3 day course, is on fire with passion and is being successful wherever she wants to be successful in her life. She knew me before I took the course and how I was so quiet, scared, frustrated, and numb. She got to expeirence the before me and the after me, and for her to see me go back into the before, well, I(yes, me) affected our relationship quite a bit. And for my mother to see it, I can imagine it must have been like seeing something she valued and loved most in the world choose to slowly die. The whole point of me sharing this is to share it. Many of you may not know me, and for those of you who know me at college and have seen me be quiet and tense, well thats not how I want to continue being, so confront me about it, hold me accountable to be the me that knows I am enough, expresses himself, and knows he has something to contribute. I feel like it is going to be a lot easier to post this than to do it and I know its going to take work, but this a step in the direction I want to go, and I know major change doesnt happen overnight.
So now that I have given you back ground information on me. There are now technical topics that I'd like to address. This is a gofundme for me to obtain a patent search, and to pay filing fees for a patent with an attorney. Right now I have one specific idea in mind. I have a very, very, VERY dear friend Jesus Delgado, whom I met through doing an advanced course facilitated by PSI Seminars, that is going to school to support him in being a very successful Entreprenuer, Inventor, and Electrical Engineering Patent Attorney in California. I will be collaborating, consulting, working with him on any and all of my projects. The cost of a patent search that I would be pursuing would be at maximum $1,250. I have reached out to David A. Burge, a patent and trademark office in Shaker Heights, OH to schedule a meeting on specifics for pricing and technical details. The average cost for a filing a patent with an attorney for a relatively simple product (which is what I would be filing for) would be $7,000-$8,500. So I am asking for $9,000. I want to have this money by the time I meet with a patent attorney, which I want to schedule by October 30th.
Any and all donations of any amount are welcome! And thank you, sincerely, for even taking the time to read this, it feels good to express what has been going on in my life and sharing my goal!
Thank you again!
I have the cited information below:
Cost of obtaining a patent and search: http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2015/04/04/the-cost-of-obtaining-a-patent-in-the-us/id=56485/
Accredited David Burge Office on Lawyers.com:
http://www.lawyers.com/cuyahoga/ohio/david-a-burge-co-l-p-a-168130062-f/
David A Burge Website:
http://www.daburge.com/PatentSearchWork.html
I believed it offered an opportunity for me to build a platform to launch my ideas off of. I was so excited and passionate and then I came to school and slowly fell into being quiet, complacent, and was stagnant. I was afraid of failure, risk of rejection, and looking stupid. I then stopped talking about my ideas, stopped expressing myself, stopped growing, I chose to sit in decay. For my mother and my girlfriend I believe this has been the most painful thing for them to see. This is because I used to be so afraid of failure and not being good enough. I believed I wouldnt ever be good enough based on my experiences growing up, how I thought about myself, and what believes I bought about me and other people. I had this mindset and behavior that I shouldnt even try because people wont listen to me, accept me, and why would they support ME? I stayed quiet, never spoke up, never expressed myself and life SUCKED. I had no passion, no confidence, no excitment; I was just emotionally numb from 5th grade on. Then in my junior year of highschool my mom had proposed the idea that I go to a 3 day personal development course called "The Basic" held by PSI Seminars. I thought she was bat shit crazy and that "personal development" was for people with problems. Little did I know, change didn't mean I had to be bad, wrong, or have issues. When I got to this course, I knew my mother had the best in mind for me and that I should keep an open mind.
Now, please genuinely absorb this: my experience is my experience and no one else can have my expeirence and it is not the only experience people have at these courses, nor is it the right and only way to experience what I am about to describe- for anyone, including you.
The three days of this course were the most eye opening, mind blowing, and amazing three days of my life. I realized that "Hey, you know what, maybe I am good enough." Maybe just because of my past experiences and how I felt at that time, I dont have to feel like that all the time anymore. Maybe I dont have to believe what I have believed about myself for my whole life, anymore. Maybe I can live a life and be how I want to be, who I want to be, where I want to be, and whenever I want to be, whenever I want to be it. I realized that I was enough, that I do have value, and that I can contribute and I am not wrong, nor do I deserve to keep being the person to accept being a doormat.
From this I refound and ignited my passion. I was not going to play football my senior year, a sport that I had played since I was 6 years old. I wasnt going to pursue college football like I had wanted to for so long. I was never going to actually pursue my ideas even though I knew they were awesome, and were billion dollar ideas!
Since then I played football my senior year, and I won a bunch of awards. I am currently playing college football. And now I am pursuing my goal of launching my future endeavors of inventing my ideas. As I stated earlier, I have recently been stagnant, complacent and uninspiring. I said that it must have been painful for my girlfriend and my mother to watch me go from: excited, connected, loving, passionate; right back to being numb and dead. This is because my amazing beautiful girlfriend, who just recently took the 3 day course, is on fire with passion and is being successful wherever she wants to be successful in her life. She knew me before I took the course and how I was so quiet, scared, frustrated, and numb. She got to expeirence the before me and the after me, and for her to see me go back into the before, well, I(yes, me) affected our relationship quite a bit. And for my mother to see it, I can imagine it must have been like seeing something she valued and loved most in the world choose to slowly die. The whole point of me sharing this is to share it. Many of you may not know me, and for those of you who know me at college and have seen me be quiet and tense, well thats not how I want to continue being, so confront me about it, hold me accountable to be the me that knows I am enough, expresses himself, and knows he has something to contribute. I feel like it is going to be a lot easier to post this than to do it and I know its going to take work, but this a step in the direction I want to go, and I know major change doesnt happen overnight.
So now that I have given you back ground information on me. There are now technical topics that I'd like to address. This is a gofundme for me to obtain a patent search, and to pay filing fees for a patent with an attorney. Right now I have one specific idea in mind. I have a very, very, VERY dear friend Jesus Delgado, whom I met through doing an advanced course facilitated by PSI Seminars, that is going to school to support him in being a very successful Entreprenuer, Inventor, and Electrical Engineering Patent Attorney in California. I will be collaborating, consulting, working with him on any and all of my projects. The cost of a patent search that I would be pursuing would be at maximum $1,250. I have reached out to David A. Burge, a patent and trademark office in Shaker Heights, OH to schedule a meeting on specifics for pricing and technical details. The average cost for a filing a patent with an attorney for a relatively simple product (which is what I would be filing for) would be $7,000-$8,500. So I am asking for $9,000. I want to have this money by the time I meet with a patent attorney, which I want to schedule by October 30th.
Any and all donations of any amount are welcome! And thank you, sincerely, for even taking the time to read this, it feels good to express what has been going on in my life and sharing my goal!
Thank you again!
I have the cited information below:
Cost of obtaining a patent and search: http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2015/04/04/the-cost-of-obtaining-a-patent-in-the-us/id=56485/
Accredited David Burge Office on Lawyers.com:
http://www.lawyers.com/cuyahoga/ohio/david-a-burge-co-l-p-a-168130062-f/
David A Burge Website:
http://www.daburge.com/PatentSearchWork.html
Organizer
Micheal Picciuto
Organizer
Cleveland, OH
