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...
Most inventors who reach the Enhance Innovations office in Champlin, Minnesota have already shown their invention to someone they should not have. A neighbor who used to work in plastics. A cousin who runs a small ecommerce store. A person at a trade show who said...
