The Dangers of Do-It-Yourself Intellectual Property ⚠️

I understand that you're a startup, you're a small business, you have limited budgets, you have limited funds, you're bootstrapping, you're trying to cover as much basis as possible. But I think people start to get where they think that, hey, if I do this DIY do it myself, I can do it just as good and I can spend 10 minutes on the Internet and it's going to replace years of experience and going to law school and all those things. And that DIY culture, I think is led sometimes people down the wrong path to where they do it, but they don't really have the value, they're not capturing it. So I file a trademark myself, but now it's all done improperly and I don't didn't really cover my brand the way I need and it leaves a lot of holes open. Or I file a patent application myself and I prepare it and I have chat GPT write it and then I file it. And lo and behold, it doesn't really give me the coverage or the extent I run into problems. And it's usually more expensive if you can fix those down the road.