Rick Lax is a magician and the inventor of several quite remarkable tricks. There are some magicians who just do the old standards, occasionally putting a new coat of paint on them or making an old trick look different…and there are magicians who invent. Lax is an inventor. But he's an inventor frustrated by the fact that if you figure out how to do the seemingly-impossible, it seems to be impossible to protect your idea. I'll let him tell you all about it.