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Inventor's Tools: USPTO (Patent and Trademark Office) Patent
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How to License Your Million Dollar Idea |
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In this book, successful new product developer Harvey Reese reveals his system for creating commercially profitable ideas and his secrets for turning them into lucrative licensing agreements. It shows how to exploit your idea without risking your own money, explains the licensing process, offers examples, includes sample patent forms, and more. This revised edition covers changes in patent law and technology and includes an appendix of publications, forms, organizations, and contact information |
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Stand Alone Inventor | |
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Stand Alone, Inventor! teaches how to go it alone with your inventive ideas and make your fortune. This is a how-to book for fledgling inventors, and anyone who desires to develop and market their own ideas or who want to work for themselves by starting their own businesses, especially persons wanting to start a home-based business. It is an invaluable resource for anyone who has a new idea for a product, but doesn't know how to proceed. The author provides practical advice drawn from his experience as a successful inventor and manufacturer. Step-by-step guidance shows how to go from brainstorm to store shelf on your own and without going into debt. Covers financing, manufacturing, packaging, advertising, locating distributors and direct marketing, including via Cable TV and the Internet. Includes a Resource Section of over 800 hard-to-find services, product sources, and buyer contacts by industry, which are needed to launch a new product. |
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Patent It Yourself |
Patent It Yourself is the world's best-selling patent book, recommended by patent attorneys, inventors, librarians and journalists. Patent attorney and former patent examiner David Pressman takes you, step-by-step and in plain English, through the entire
patent process, from conducting a patent search to filing a successful application. |
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How to Market a Product for Under $500 by Jeff Dobkin |
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This insider's guide to direct marketing shows small businesses how to create and implement a marketing campaign that chances are will be ten times more effective than anything they are already doing--at a lower cost. Covers how to develop direct marketing and direct mail campaigns, advertise in mail order catalogs, reach the best markets and more. A great reference tool business owners and sales and marketing professionals. |
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Six Ways to Free Publicity by Marcia Yudkin |
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There are many good books on publicity. Yudkin certainly matches all the others and actually exceeds them in two areas--humor and creativity. Notwithstanding the fact that her title is somewhat misleading (the "six steps" refer to the processes involved in writing and distributing a news release) and that the use of the terms free publicity and free media attention are sure to cause great consternation among practicing public relations professionals, she does spell out all the best publicity techniques. Especially useful are her chapters on tip sheets, special events, and ways to overcome writer's block. Ideal for small business owners who are interested in particular in the possibilities of media exposure, this volume belongs in all public library business collections Barbara Jacobs |
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License Your Invention by Richard Stim |
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Packed with practical, effective licensing strategies, License Your Invention tells inventors everything they need to know to enter into a good written agreement with the manufacturer, marketer or distributor who will handle the details of merchandising an invention. It shows step by step how to draft a license that will be fair to all parties and addresses such issues as ownership, applicable patent, copyright and trademark laws, license scope, dispute resolution, finances and more. Sample tear-out agreement included. All forms are provided on disk. |
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Patent Searching Made Easy by David Hitchcock |
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In the past, if you wanted to assess the novelty of an idea, you had to wade through the patent database at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) in Virginia--or hire a lawyer to do a patent search for $500 and up. The cost and inconvenience of these searches often meant that good ideas were left to rot on the vine. With David Hitchcock's new book, Patent Searching Made Easy, you can learn to do patent searches yourself,
on the Internet, at little or no cost.
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Will It Sell? by James E. White |
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Describes many inexpensive ways inventors can figure out, while protecting all patent rights, what their idea's real value is long before it's necessary to spend money on the patent. Dozens of Internet and other resources are provided with complete instructions for using them to your best advantage. This book is designed as the first book a new inventor should read to figure out what they need to do, where they can get help, and how to avoid the costly pitfalls that every inventor faces. The marketing information provided and the many referrals to other resources will also be valuable to experienced inventors seeking to expedite the costly process of entering an unknown market |
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