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You can easily file a preliminary patent with the USPTO, and claim small business status so it will only cost $80. They do not judge the merits of your submission and you can only use patent pending status and you have 1 year from then to file a full patent. This way you can at least get something officially on record and start out to see if you can make the business/technology workout before committing $10K to file a full patent application.
One tip, is use a proper search service that will look in databases like Lexis-Nexis...to see if there is any previous art...that is out there that will nullify you getting the patent approved, before filing.
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