How do you patent a magic trick?

What many magicians do rather than patent is to market the effect. this way at least other magicians will pay for your creation. The last and worst thing to do is put it on youtube or the internet, that's just asking to be copied or ripped off. My recommendation is if it a good effect and you perform regularly, keep it for yourself and you will be original. Good Luck

Ya, patents are only for things/objects. Maybe if you use some special tool, or box, or some magic thing, you might be able to patent that. Just go to your local patent office.

How can you patent it without telling the patent office how its done... then anyone doing a petent search can see your secrets.

Go to the patent office I guess and see if you can patent a magic trick. I don't really think that you can though.

You can't. You just need to make sure people can't learn it, so make sure you perform it well and don't tell anyone your secrets. If it is easy to guess then it isn't worth patenting in the first place.

You would have to reveal your secret... the trick is to make a magic trick that not even a skilled illusionist wouldn't be able to figure out and replicate... otherwise it isn't worth copyrighting anyway.

Pointless to do. Anyone else can do it, all they need to do is vary it slightly and they get around your patent.

you dont, thats like patenting a word.

if you patent it you break the number one rule:

Never reveal your secrets

ask a patent attorney