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  • Filing a Provisional Patent
    This article will guide you on how to file a provisional patent if you are not sure that you will need full protection for your product.
  • Five Key Networking Tips for Inventors
    In this article its discussed the five most important networking tips for inventors.
  • Getting Endorsements for Your Invention
    When it comes to establishing your credibility and value, few things are more effective than endorsements.
  • Getting Your Invention Store Ready in 30 Days
    If your invention is done, functional, and ready for sale, congratulations! You have reached a plateau that few inventors ever see with their own eyes - a finished product that is destined for store shelves. But now, it's crunch time. You want to be in stores 30 days from now. What do you do to prepare?
  • Government Resources for Inventors
    Inventing can be tough, dirty (through enthralling) work. Fortunately, inventors do not have to go it alone!
  • How Does Your Invention Fare?
    Some mistakes are just too fatal to overcome. If you make them, your invention is pretty much dead on the water with no hope for success.
  • How to Commercialize New Ideas
    Hollywood and popular literature tend to glorify the selfless inventor who innovates out of benevolence for mankind, with no care for personal gain.
  • How to Document New Ideas
    Documenting new ideas is not just good practice. It may be absolutely critical if you intend on getting a patent and then enforcing it.
  • How to Fast Track Your Invention to Market
    If you are the kind of person with a million ideas and not enough time to pursue them, you might want to consider "fast tracking" your invention to market.
  • How To File For A Patent
    The way you file a patent is by filling out an application and submitting it to the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a fee.
  • How to Get in the Door of Major Retailers
    For most inventors, getting their invention sold on store shelves is the realization of a dream come true.
  • How to Get The Right People Behind Your Invention
    All inventors have, at one time or another, pined for "the right people." Be they investors, programmers, distributors, writers, architects, butchers, bakers, or candlestick makers, personnel is a crucial ingredient to the success of any invention.
  • How to Patent New Ideas
    In the understandable excitement and inspirational fire of creation, many inventors rush into the patent process without doing their homework.
  • How to Profit From University Commercialization Inefficiency
    If you are looking for a patent on something and the traditional sources have come up empty, you may be overlooking something: the massive amounts of stagnant intellectual property at universities.
  • Information About the Patent Office
    The United States Patent and Trademark Office is the governmental agency in charge of granting patents to inventors.
  • Information You Should Know About Patents
    There are many misconceptions about what a patent is and is not.
  • Inventor How To- Developing the Habit of Decisiveness
    Read about any successful inventor or businessman and you will inevitably notice something: a habit of decisiveness in all that they do. What is decisiveness, exactly? It is a word we often hear, but rarely define.
  • Keep Going - Don't Give Up
    These words are easy to say, but not always so easy to do. Nowhere is this truer than in your fight to invent something new or grow a prevailing business. As you strive to bring your vision to life, you will face countless obstacles and barriers to success.
  • New Invention First Steps
    The day you decide to invent something will probably be one the most exciting days of your life.
  • New Technology Development Steps for Inventors
    Developing new technology is, as Edison once said, "one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." It makes sense when you consider what technology really is: technique.
  • Purchasing Patents for Sale
    Just as a growing number of people are starting to sell their patents, there is a rise in the number of people looking to buy them.
  • Raising Money for Your Invention
    Raising money for your invention is an important step, and one that should not be taken lightly.
  • Review of Some of the Most Famous Inventions
    This article will explore some of the world's most famous inventions and the people responsible for them.
  • Sell an Invention in 30 Days
    One of the primary driving forces that bring inventions to light is the profit motive. While Hollywood and the media tend to glorify the selfless inventor, the truth is that many of the most basic technologies we have would not have come to pass without the incentive of selling it.
  • The Priorities for Gaining Credibility for Your Invention
    With all the false starts and do-overs that come with inventing something, it is easy to feel like the Rodney Dangerfield of inventing: like you get "no respect" from credible figures in your field.
  • Tips to Sell New Ideas
    A growing number of people are generating ideas not to pursue them, but sell them to those who will.
  • Why Paranoid Inventors Fail
    Every inventor knows that it's a mistake to go around bragging about your idea to everyone who will listen.
  • Your Domain Name Trademarks Questions Answered
    A frequent question among Internet entrepreneurs is "Can I trademark a domain name?" The answer is yes - in some cases.

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