So, your morning shower stirred the creative juices, and you
came up with the next big thing, ensuring that not only will you be
able to keep up with the Joneses, they might want to start keeping
up with you! Picking up your phablet (i.e. tablet sized smart
phone) to start searching if your idea exists, you realise that you
recently heard somewhere that your brainwave is much more
commercially viable if protected, and even further, that it is
easier to protect a working prototype (all the while keeping your
idea secret insofar as possible, of course).
Following your search, you locate an engineering draughtsman
with the requisite skills that is willing to prepare technical
drawings and build the prototype. A brief email interaction with
the draughtsman ensues, and heagrees to the crucial step of signing
a non-disclosure agreement (aha, so that's what NDA means...)
that you sourced from the internet, you agree to a price for their
services, and start thinking about
