How do you actually turn a million-dollar idea into a million dollars? From scribble-on-the-napkin to product-on-the market, The Independent Inventor's Handbook explains everything a potential inventor needs to know and the tools he or she needs to use to take a raw concept and turn it into reality. Written by Louis J. Foreman, creator of the PBS series Everyday Edisons and a holder of multiple patents, together with patent attorney Jill Gilbert Welytok, here's a book that speaks directly to the inventive American—the entrepreneur, the tinkerer, the dreamer, the basement scientist, the stay-at-home mom who figures out how to do it better. (over one million of them file patents each year.) Here is everything a future inventor needs: Understanding the difference between a good idea and a marketable idea. Why investing too much money at the outset can sink you. The downside of design patents, and how best to file an application for a utility patent. Surveys, online test runs, and other strategies for market research on a tight budget. Plus the effective pitch (hint: never say your target audience is "everyone"), questions to ask a prospective manufacturer, 14 licensing land mines to avoid, "looks-like" versus "works-like" prototypes, Ten Things Not to Tell a Venture Capitalist, and how to protect your invention once it's on the market. Appendices include a glossary of legal, manufacturing, and marketing terms, a sample nondisclosure agreement, and a patent application, deconstructed.

FINALLY - the answer to every question an inventor has, from the first idea, to the final check! This no-nonsense guide to invention development covers: patents licensing, marketing, negotiation, financing, valuing your invention, and much, much more. Complete with worksheets, forms, charts, questionnaires, financial statements, a sample patent, and resources! Without a doubt, this is the best invention development guide will ever find - guaranteed!

Explains the procedures for applying for a patent and discusses methods for developing an invention into a profitable business venture.

Robert Park brings over 30 years' experience as inventor, prototyper, new product designer, and marketer to this book. It covers all the steps inthe invent ing process, from the initial creative phase to prototyping; from financing to production to marketing--all the guidance inventors need to turn ideas into reality.

Expert guidance details marketability, secrecy, record keeping, prototyping, funding, pilot operations, costing, testing, liabilities, business planning, licencing and royalties, outright sale, selling, production scale up. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This bundle book is a compilation of four of KidCaps top selling history books. This book presents the following subjects in an easy to understand format that kids love: *The Cotton Gin *The Birth of Flight *The Invention of the Automobile

Includes major patent offices, patent classification systems, and how to search patent documents.