Legal Question in Intellectual Property in California

Next time pursue your idea.

No. The patent system is designed and intended to reward those who make their great ideas public by affording them an opportunity to develop and profit from their ideas. Furthermore, you have no proof of your idea, but this is only a side issue.

Both attorneys above are right on point. Mere ideas are not protected by patent or even copyright law. Although an idea is the first critical step to any creation, without some identifiable embodiment of the idea there can be no intellectual property protection.