You can evaluate your own invention in a weekend, for free, across five dimensions: market pull, manufacturing cost, patentability, competitive density, and personal fit. Score each from 0 to 5, apply the weights below, and you have a number out of 100 that tells you...
File first, then sell. That order is not a preference, it is the only sequence that leaves you with something to sell. A public disclosure or an offer for sale starts a 12-month clock on your U.S. rights and forfeits your foreign rights outright, since Europe, China,...
Companies buy solved problems, not ideas. To sell one you need three things in hand before you make contact: a filed patent application, a one-page sell sheet with a working prototype photographed on it, and a landed cost estimate. Then you pick a route. Large...
Inventing is a process with five repeatable stages: find a problem worth solving, map the constraints the solution has to live inside, generate far more concepts than you need, kill most of them within an hour each, and reduce the survivor to a described and tested...
The first twelve months of an invention can be done for under $600, and a meaningful part of it for nothing. A micro entity provisional application costs $65 to $130 in government fees. Prior art searching on the public databases is free. Patent and Trademark Resource...
