How to make your own breaks as an inventor.
One of the biggest mistakes you can make as an inventor is to have expectations of someone you don’t know. That’s not only unfair to them, it’s unfair to you.
Try to make connections and appointments before you go to a trade show. Then you’re different from most of the attendees because your contacts will be expecting to see you.
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.
Comprehensive survey of real patent transaction pricing shows a strong market.
Data indicate that prices for brokered patents are higher than for auctioned patents, and there is a clear price premium for EOUs (evidence of use, meaning patents that appear to be infringed).
Team’s wearable device provides comfort, can save natural resources.
“What we discovered was that there are two dimensions of temperature”—what a thermostat is set to, and how that feels.
—Sam Shames, Embr Labs CTO
Projected 2019 growth for the SaaS (software as a service) market, according to global advisory firm Gartner. The market’s total worth would be $85.1 billion. SaaS makes up the largest segment of the cloud market. Percent IoT...
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Steps to get in the door with your target companies.
It’s a great benefit to inventors when they find a supporter early, before making any formal sales calls.
Photographer wants SCOTUS to take up his case against Nike.
The image features Michael Jordan in mid-air and flying toward a basketball hoop with his left arm and both legs outstretched.
February 13, 1979 Forty years ago, Charles Chidsey received the first patent ever granted for a...
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