If you’ve spent any appreciable amount of time around inventors or new product entrepreneurs, you will have heard the proclamations of “guaranteed to make millions” and its variants many times over.

While passion for your invention or new product is obviously crucial, wishful thinking can cloud your decision making processes to the detriment of your product’s future.

Learn How To Evaluate Your Product's Commercial Potential

Google has done it again and scored yet further kudos from the inventor community for continuing to provide powerful and useful tools for inventors at no cost, furthering innovation and incubating incalculable new product concepts, designs and improvements in the process. After acquiring the publisher of the 3D software SketchUp!, they've decided to release a completely free version that you can download and install in minutes. Read More...

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There are many situations in which an inventor may find themselves pondering whether or not it is worth pursuing patent protection for their idea or invention. It is a good question and one worthy of further exploration. For the purposes of this article, we will be considering typical circumstance of an individual inventor or small entity, as opposed to a corporation or other business entity. Additionally, the term "patent" as used throughout generally refers to a utility and/or design patent as opposed to provisional patent protection, which can be done fairly inexpensively or filed on your own for less than $200.

So, let's get started. When does patenting and idea NOT make sense? Read More...

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The single most important stage in developing a new product or invention exists well before the actual product does - in the early analysis of the idea.

Before spending lots of time and money on pursuing your new invention idea, you must consider the following Three P's of Analyzing An Invention's Potential:
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There is so much confusion about what patents are, how patents work, what type of patent to apply for, how much patents cost, what patents protect and who enforces the intellectual property (IP) rights a patent may convey. Read More...

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Google's Patent Search Engine Reviewed

Google has quietly released into public beta a new patent search engine: Google Patents.
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