Idea to Invention


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Discover the tricks of the trade that helps ordinary people learn how to look at their world through the eyes of an inventor. You don’t have to be a mechanical genius to be an inventor. Chances are, you’re already at the all-important starting ground every inventor begins at--wishing you could find a clever solution to an everyday challenge. The far-too-complicated baby swing. Slick-soled running shoes. Computer cords constantly tangled up...there can’t be a solution unless there’s a problem. Author and inventor Patricia Nolan-Brown has turned many common annoyances into ingenious and money-making products, and she believes you can do the same. In Idea to Invention, you will learn the six simple steps it takes to go from idea to invention, and discover: Creativity habits that spark invention The power of tape-and-paper prototypes to refine their vision How to navigate the ins and outs of licensing and patenting their product The pros and cons of finding a licensed manufacturer vs. running a home-based assembly line How to promote their invention Product enhancements that add years to shelf life From the everyday challenge and your initial concept to resolve it, all the way to the explosion of your thriving business, Idea to Invention simplifies the invention process and gives creative thinkers the competitive edge they need to achieve the success their amazing ideas deserve.










Sell Your Ideas with Or Without a Patent


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Provides insight into intellectual property protection. Know what it takes to protect an idea - and it isn't always with a patent.




How to Make Money by Invention


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Excerpt from How to Make Money by Invention There are two classes of persons to whom these pages may afford information and to whom they are chiefly addressed, viz., the person who for the first time conceives that he has made an invention and who is actually desirous of benefiting himself thereby; and the patentee who is anxious to render his newly-acquired privilege profitable. When a man has made what he considers to be a discovery or invention, he intuitively feels that to derive any profit from it, he must secure a patent for it; but there his acquaintance with the subject ends - commonly he is at a loss to know what course to pursue. To solve the perplexities, he probably consults the best informed among his friends; and when, as generally happens, the most conflicting and contradictory opinions are given, he ends by taking his own course, which is not always the best under the circumstances. Now, the success of a patent, like that of a book, depends much on the manner in which it is presented to public notice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Invention Works


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Success, provides guidance to those who have meritorious product concepts but do not know what to do. It assists in teh arduous process of transforming a product concept into an invention, then into a profitable product.




Your Complete Guide to Making Millions with Your Simple Idea Or Invention


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Explains how to make money with an idea for a new invention or service, offering step-by-step instructions for protecting and promoting an idea or invention, covering topics such as the initial patent search, licensing, finding a patent attorney, and saving on legal fees.




The Invention of Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece


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Coinage appeared at a moment when it fulfilled an essential need in Greek society and brought with it rationalization and social leveling in some respects, while simultaneously producing new illusions, paradoxes, and new elites. In a book that will encourage scholarly discussion for some time, David M. Schaps addresses a range of important coinage topics, among them money, exchange, and economic organization in the Near East and in Greece before the introduction of coinage; the invention of coinage and the reasons for its adoption; and the developing use of money to make more money.