 This is Shepherd Humphries and some of my friends have asked me about this new tactical flashlight for searching invention that I'm working on and I'm going to bring to market and have asked if I'm going to patent it and I considered it and have decided not to and just wanted to tell you why in case you're curious. The patent process would be five thousand bucks or so and then that was basically having that intellectual property would say that other people in the United States would not be able to use the stuff I came up with to make their own flashlight like that. Of course as an entrepreneur as a business person I don't want to have people competing with me I'd like to just control the whole market and be the only person that makes it that would be my preference and getting a patent is kind of an easy way to do that but for those of you that know me and know a little bit about my philosophy I didn't think that was the right thing to do and the reason is there shouldn't really be any such thing as intellectual property in my opinion. We can debate this over beer or coffee sometime but my personal moral belief is that it's probably not a good idea. I came up with a good idea here that solves a problem and I hope a bunch of people are going to want it and are going to buy it from me. I hope that anyone else that's going to copy me will wait a while let me let me you know get get some strength but frankly that's that's nothing to expect you see somebody doing something smart you ought to copy them that just makes sense so I'm not I'm not going to do a patent a patent is essentially from a philosophical standpoint from an honest no special fancy words used a patent is asking another group of people to use violence against anyone else that tries to do exactly what you're doing with your idea and I don't want the government that third party to go to your house if you're out in your garage trying to make similar search flashlights I don't want anybody to initiate violence against you and I'm not going to pay to have them do that or file paperwork to have them do that so it's my job to make as high of a quality of product as possible balance that with price and figure out what the market wants figure out what you want and provide it to you and take good care of you so I I could patent it and probably charge twice as much for each one but I'm going to go with a much lower price I'm going to make myself going to have father-in-law make them try to find other small-time manufacturers to make them in the garage or the spare bedroom workshop and we'll see how it goes that's the long and the short of why this idea is not something I'm going to patent and now that this video and others like that are out there they're considered prior art and no one else can patent this idea either