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morganist
If you truly have legitimate, completely original and patentable IP then spending £90 for the application, £180 for a UK office search, and £130 for a substantive examination would be far and away your best and your first move - especially if you want leverage to negotiate user fees and to license the IP.
My sense is that you are well aware that you cannot patent business methods and that getting a patent on software and apps can be a very complex and uncertain affair. Maybe you need the government to push through what is at present an unpatentable abstract idea.
Well this is the issue and the obstacle for this kind of thing. I need the government to set the regulations to be able to use the product then the product would take the form of a process or formula, which you can patent, or alternatively a software package that makes the product viable in application. This is the area governments have power, the authorisation, approval, regulation, legal rights and operational allowance.
If I give the government a big cut and the new work gets approval the formula or software gets patented and then the providers of the product can use it for a share of the profits. Then it can go international, getting commissions from all of the providers of the product around the world. I call this technique Internationally Commercialised Innovation or ICI. I reckon I can give the world a whole new economic model saving and making billions every year.
I also reckon I can get an additional two to four percent of extra economic growth per year out of it, which I can then use to reduce the government debt as a percentage of GDP. I estimate that with an economic growth rate of 4% per year I can get the debt to fall to 60 % of GDP within 13 - 14 years in the UK, no debt has to be repaid the GDP just outgrows it. If I can keep interest rates low I can stop the government debt from rising during that time.