Patent law & misc. Ok, very well, nice feedback, how about-?

So far Ive established that there is no way to further protect an invention past one year from application date, and not by reapplying? I still cannot afford the patent, so my art could go public. How about if I were to design and register a trademark that's an image of my creation and be the first to build my product and conduct business with it, would that justify that Im the original creator of said art?