After working for a company for several years, you feel you have discovered a more efficient energy conversion method that would save your company millions of dollars annually. Since you made this discovery as part of your daily job you take your idea to your supervisor, but he or she claims it is impractical and refuses to consider it further. You still feel it has merit and want to proceed. What do you do?

a. You take your idea to another company to see if they will buy it.

b. You contact a patent lawyer to initiate a patent search on your idea.

c. You go over your boss’s head and talk to his or her supervisor about your idea.

d. You complain to your company’s human resources office about having poor supervision.