What advice would you give to wannabe inventors?
Well, first things first. If you have a good idea, then don't, don't go down to the pub and tell everybody about it. I think I mentioned this to you before. Because once you've told everybody, it's disclosed, you've lost it. Right? Now, in my case, the reason why I started Bogus Brands is that I genuinely believed that there has to be a safe haven for an inventor. Now there are other organizations out there that purport to help inventors, but I've been working very closely, I've just started to work with the British Standards Institute. Now if you were to get a phoney plumber into your house, and he wasn't registered and he wasn't, you know, he had an accident or made a dreadful job of your plumbing, what can you do about it? You have to be codely approved. In other words, you have to know what standards they are working to. Now in the case of an inventor, academies, organizations, clubs, societies, they, I believe, all of them, must form to a British standard. In other words, when you go there, you know these people will lose their license should they rip you off, or indeed, be sued by you for breaking the code of practice which is put in place by the British standards. And I'm trying to get them to listen to me is like me trying to talk to government. Do you understand? So, what I'm saying to you is basically we've got to try to put some pressure on people like the BSI to listen to what I'm saying. I have no trouble with you having a club or society as long as it conforms to those standards and of course I'd like Bogus Brands to be double oh one or 007, do you understand me? I'd like us to be the people that got this going with the help of the patent office and the British Standards Institute.
