A 2024 USPTO data review put the average cost of contesting a stolen invention claim in U.S. district court above $750,000 in legal fees, and most of those cases never recover the inventor’s losses. The cheaper path, by far, is putting protections in place...
About 9 in 10 unsolicited invention submissions get rejected before a single engineer reads them, and most of the rejected pile never had a chance because the inventor sent the wrong package to the wrong person on the wrong day. This guide explains how the submission...
A consumer products company in the upper Midwest received 1,847 unsolicited invention submissions in 2025. They reviewed 1,847 of them. They progressed 41 to a second round. They signed 4. That hit rate (about 0.2 percent) holds across most companies that publish a...
A category buyer at a top-five US mass retailer reviews 1,200 to 1,800 new products a year and selects 40 to 80 for testing. That ratio (about 3 to 5 percent acceptance) sets the bar for any inventor whose product reaches a retail buyer meeting. The inventors who get...
A licensing scout in the housewares category confirmed last month what experienced product development firms have long known: she can name the inventor on three of every twelve pitches she reviews. The other nine arrive as faceless products from anonymous senders. The...
