Many people have great ideas, but finding the right information about taking the next steps and turning your ideas into reality isn't always easy. Written by a team of leading inventors and legal experts, this book guides you through every aspect of developing your inventive ideas. From protecting your invention and product development to finding investment and selling your product into the marketplace, Inventing For Dummies is the easiest way to get your great ideas off the ground and start your business.
Table of Contents:
Foreword xxv
Introduction 1
Part I: Assessing Your Idea 7
Chapter 1: The Innovation Process 9
Chapter 2: Keeping It Confidential 19
Chapter 3: Intellectual Property Basics 27
Chapter 4: Searching for Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks 45
Part II: Protecting Your Idea 57
Chapter 5: Applying for Your Patent 59
Chapter 6: Maintaining and Defending Your Patent 77
Chapter 7: Applying to Register Your Design 87
Chapter 8: Applying to Register Your Trade Mark 97
Chapter 9: Using Your Copyright to Stop the Pirates 109
Part III: Developing Your Idea 119
Chapter 10: Showing That Your Invention Works 121
Chapter 11: Hiring Helpers and Using Service Contracts 133
Chapter 12: Evaluating Your Invention’s Potential 141
Chapter 13: Going into Production 151
Part IV: Preparing to Enter the Market 167
Chapter 14: Developing a Business Plan 169
Chapter 15: Finding Funding 191
Chapter 16: Keeping Control with Your Own Business 207
Chapter 17: Partnering and Manufacturing Arrangements 223
Chapter 18: Preparing for Launch 233
Part V: Developing Your Market 247
Chapter 19: Marketing Your Product 249
Chapter 20: Advertising Your Product 263
Chapter 21: Licensing Your Product 277
Chapter 22: Negotiating a Licence 291
Part VI: The Part of Tens 305
Chapter 23: Ten Key Contacts 307
Chapter 24: Ten Inventions (and Inventors) That Changed the World 313
Chapter 25: Ten Inventors to Emulate 321
Part VII: Appendixes 329
Appendix A: Sample Agreements 331
Appendix B: Sources of Help 341
Index 347
About the Author :
Peter Jackson is a Patent Attorney, Intellectual Property Consultant, and an adviser to new inventors. Philip Robinson is the inventor of the ZorinPump. Pamela Riddle Bird is the founder of Innovative Product Technologies, Inc.
Review :
"...covers every aspect of the invention process, from developing your idea...to building a prototype and starting your own business." The Business July 2008 "...aimed at helping inventors to take their gleam-in-the-eye idea towards commercialisation...valuable sections are intellectual property basics and protecting your idea." Professional Engineering Wednesday 21 May 2008 "...aimed at helping inventors to take their gleam-in-the-eye idea towards commercialisation...valuable sections are intellectual property basics and protecting your idea." Professional Engineering Wednesday 21 May 2008
