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An issued patent with approved claims is often key to selling your invention.
A prototype is mainly valuable when you can demonstrate it. But a looks-like, nonfunctional prototype can also be used for sell-sheets.

Novelty is nice, but an invention that solves a problem is the most important claim.
The world is full of products that aren’t patented. These products are prior art as certain as patents are.

Personal experience proves an idea must survive tough questions.
Optimism won’t save the day if you don’t have an invention with benefits for which strangers will pay your price.

Odds favor ‘the house’ in many ways but can’t stop our determination.
What affects the odds perhaps most of all is our approach to inventing.

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