Most invention transactions are licenses, not buyouts, and the three structures companies use to pay inventors split between those two poles. But a meaningful share of patents, somewhere between 8 and 15 percent of completed inventor-to-company deals depending on the...
About 95 percent of all U.S. patents never earn the inventor a single dollar. The other 5 percent get there one of three ways: a license, a full buyout, or a hybrid that combines elements of both. Each path has different tax treatment, different upside, different...
Most new consumer products struggle, and the trouble usually traces back to decisions made before a single unit got tooled. A consumer product design firm exists to make those early decisions well. It is not there to draw a pretty rendering and hand you a STEP file....
An inventor asked the Enhance Innovations team a fair question last month: should he spend money with a design firm, or buy a CAD course and figure it out himself? It is the right question to ask, and most of the people asking it have already underestimated how much...
About 70% of the geometry on a design changes before the part is ready to mold. That number lands hard for inventors who assume a finished CAD model means the manufacturer will press a button and start making parts. The CAD that communicates an invention and the...
