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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One of the most significant things any successful inventor must understand is that, above all else, the primary objective with their invention is profitable sales of product, hopefully on a large scale. Obviously, this type of thinking goes well beyond merely understanding the proposed workings of their new invention. Read More...

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1) The first thing an inventor must do is file for a patent on their idea before someone else does it first.
Ignoring the oversimplification of simply “patenting” an idea, as if it were so easy, this line of reasoning is nonsense for a variety of reasons, not the least of which being, once patented, your invention becomes publicly available to be scrutinized, reverse engineered and designed around – allowing the possibility of beating you to market, if you’re not prepared to go to market before they are.
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