Ebook: The independent inventor's handbook: the best advice from idea to payoff

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.;COVER; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: The Entrepreneur & the Attorney; CHAPTER 1: Eureka! Turn an Invention into a Venture; CHAPTER 2: First Define the Market, Then Design the Product; CHAPTER 3: Prototyping, Manufacturing & Distributing: A Crash Course; CHAPTER 4: Protect Your Invention (with as Few Lawyers as Possible); CHAPTER 5: Make Your Mark: Branding, Pitching & Selling; CHAPTER 6: Doing the Math: Licensing vs. Manufacturing; CHAPTER 7: Money Matters: Finding the Funds to Bring a New Product to Market; CHAPTER 8: Protecting & Defending Your Invention in a Global Marketplace.