I'm creative and i have a great invention what are the steps i go about to patent my invention and get it out.
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From the article "How to Protect Your Idea or Intellectual Property" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol81/protect.htm  here are some steps you need to take:\n\n1. Consult a patent lawyer and check if your idea can be patented. \n2. Keep extensive records tracking the development of your idea.\n3. Conduct an extensive research to find out if there are similar patents. \n4. Document where, how and to whom you showed your idea.\n5. Do your own market research if your idea is marketable\n6. Explore the possibility of developing the product yourself, or licensing someone else to make the product for you. \n\nTo bring your idea to market, here are some tips from the article "How to Get Your Consumer Invention to Market" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/012006/invention.htm \n\nGetting Started: \n\n- The Ideabook = Keep a bound ideabook of your invention idea. Date your entries. \n- Get it Notarized = get it officially confirmed that you conceived your invention idea on a particular date, and have your notes notarized. \n- Seek and Search = Do your own patent search to ascertain if your invention is original and prospectively patentable.\n- Create the Initial Prototype = Use simple materials to rig it up, to see if it works. \n- Get Educated = Educate yourself on the inventing process. Go to a bookstore or inventorhelp.com and review the plethora of books written on the subject. \n- The Non-Disclosure Form = Agreement signed between you and anyone you reveal your invention to. \n\nMoving Ahead \n\n- Analyze Costs to Produce = Ascertain what the costs will be. \n- The Evaluation Process = Analyze the benefits and features, strengths and weaknesses of your invention. \n- Get a Professional Prototype = Have professional prototypes made, the quality of which can be shown to potential retail buyers. \n- Protect Your Idea = Apply for a provisional patent yourself. \n- The Non-Provisional Patent = Your patent attorney files your non-provisional patent application.\n\nOptions for Marketing\n\n- Licensing = The inventor has the choice to license the invention to a manufacturer in exchange for a royalty percentage in sales. \n- Manufacturing = Manufacturing and distributing your invention entails higher financial risk but can reap greater profits.\n\nHere are some books that can help you:\n\nFrom Patent to Profit by Bob De Matteis \nProtecting Your #1 Asset : Creating Fortunes from Your Ideas : An Intellectual Property Handbook \nPatents and How to Get One : A Practical Handbook \nHow to Register Your Own Trademark : With Forms \nPatent It Yourself \nProtecting Your Ideas : The Inventor's Guide to Patents
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Go to a patent Lawyer, but first record all details of your invention, then stamp it with a large stamp of the realm, then sign across the stamp, have a trusted witness sign it, then post it to you, Recorded delivery, keep all postal documents, then put them in a safe together with the received post. UNOPENED! This is your proof Timed, Posted, received, and dated, unopened and not tampered with.\nNow Go and register your invention with a patents lawyer.
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You need a good patent attorney, period.  You must understand that 95% never get off the ground. It is not just about your idea- it is about your marketing, sales and distrubution- these things take capital.  Look at the club- if I told you 20 years ago, I had a piece of metal that you slap on your steering wheel you would say to get lost but it was marketed like mad and it made millions.  You can patent something and years later have a company contact you to buy the rights- my friend of my friend put a light in a tackle box and 2 years later settled for 3 million from a company that had the same idea- he owned the rights!  Innoventions are a good way to go also...think BASF- make something good, better.
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NOLO is a great, free informational site. Also, be sure to read what the USPTO (United States Patent & Trademark Office) has to say about patents.\n\nAssociations may be a good avenue to explore. These organizations will address many of the thoughts, questions and concerns you'll inevitably have as well as many you haven't anticipated yet. See the source box for some relevant links. \n\nResearch, research, research – this cannot be stressed enough. Read as much as you can. Here are some book titles that are relevant:\n\n* From Patent To Profit: Secrets & Strategies For The Successful Inventor, Third Edition by Bob Dematteis\n* How to License Your Million Dollar Idea: Everything You Need To Know To Turn a Simple Idea into a Million Dollar Payday, 2nd Edition by Harvey Reese\n* The Inventor's Bible: How to Market and License Your Brilliant Ideas by Ronald Louis Docie \n* The Complete Idiot's Guide ® to Cashing in On Your Inventions by Richard Levy\n\nThere are plenty of free informational resources out there. Check the source box for links to articles.\n\nHope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
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From the article "How to Protect Your Idea or Intellectual Property" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol81/protectidea.htm here are some steps you need to take:\n\n1. Consult a patent lawyer and check if your idea can be patented. \n2. Keep extensive records tracking the development of your idea.\n3. Conduct an extensive research to find out if there are similar patents. \n4. Document where, how and to whom you showed your idea.\n5. Do your own market research if your idea is marketable\n6. Explore the possibility of developing the product yourself, or licensing someone else to make the product for you. \n\nTo bring your idea to market, here are some tips from the article "How to Get Your Consumer Invention to Market" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/012006/invention.htm\n\nGetting Started: \n\n- The Ideabook = Keep a bound ideabook of your invention idea. Date your entries. \n- Get it Notarized = get it officially confirmed that you conceived your invention idea on a particular date, and have your notes notarized. \n- Seek and Search = Do your own patent search to ascertain if your invention is original and prospectively patentable.\n- Create the Initial Prototype = Use simple materials to rig it up, to see if it works. \n- Get Educated = Educate yourself on the inventing process. Go to a bookstore or inventorhelp.com and review the plethora of books written on the subject. \n- The Non-Disclosure Form = Agreement signed between you and anyone you reveal your invention to. \n\nMoving Ahead \n\n- Analyze Costs to Produce = Ascertain what the costs will be. \n- The Evaluation Process = Analyze the benefits and features, strengths and weaknesses of your invention. \n- Get a Professional Prototype = Have professional prototypes made, the quality of which can be shown to potential retail buyers. \n- Protect Your Idea = Apply for a provisional patent yourself. \n- The Non-Provisional Patent = Your patent attorney files your non-provisional patent application.\n\nOptions for Marketing\n\n- Licensing = The inventor has the choice to license the invention to a manufacturer in exchange for a royalty percentage in sales. \n- Manufacturing = Manufacturing and distributing your invention entails higher financial risk but can reap greater profits.\n\nHere are some books that can help you:\n\nFrom Patent to Profit by Bob De Matteis \nProtecting Your #1 Asset : Creating Fortunes from Your Ideas : An Intellectual Property Handbook \nPatents and How to Get One : A Practical Handbook \nHow to Register Your Own Trademark : With Forms \nPatent It Yourself \nProtecting Your Ideas : The Inventor's Guide to Patents
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patent it. go to the government service. if you go to the attorneys they will charge you around 2000-5000. you can also document and date the design, then show it to the manufacturer. they can tell you if it is marketable; but be careful. they can steal you idea/design. so document and date it well. go see an attorney that doesn't try to sell you patent service.
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If you tell someone, they may steal your idea.  You should register your idea with a patent attorney or look up how to protect your ideas/inventions with some kind of legal protection.\n\nLook at the Eureka Ranch website for some information as they're a company that helps small business.  http://www.doughall.com.\n\nDon't tell one of those invention companies because they WILL most likely steal your idea.\n\nGood luck!
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The first step is to get your idea patented....you don't want to contact MS with your idea and have them steal it...it happened to me with an invention...make sure you CYA
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If you are in the US, you go to the US Patent and Trademark Office to get a patent. http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/howtopat.htm UPTO has a page on the Basic Facts of Patents that you may want to read http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/doc/general/index.html\n\nNote though that getting a patent is a complicated and costly process. It is best to work with a patent lawyer to help you navigate the process. The cost of filing a patent can go anywhere from $10K to $35K depending on the cost of your lawyer and what it is you are trying to patent
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Research the idea on the US patent website.  If the idea has already been invented (but not marketed) you can not do anything more.  If it has not been invented, go find yourself a patent attorney!  Happy searching
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When you have a new idea for a product or service, there are 5 crucial actions you must take to assure your success. Getting a patent is not one of them. Typically, 70 percent of patents filed are granted. But, only an estimated 2-3% actually makes money. Many inventors and entrepreneurs whose products failed didn't follow these 5 actions.   \n\nYou need to think of yourself as more than just an idea person. Think of yourself as a product developer and marketer. To improve your chances for success, perform the following actions for your idea before filing a patent. I ve used the acronym IDEAS to guide you.\n\nThe 5 Actions\n\nI - Inventor's Notebook:\n\nProtect your idea by documenting all your ideas and plans in an Inventor s Notebook. In the United States it s the first person who documents their idea that gets patent rights rather than the first to file a patent. Use a notebook with a stitched binding and numbered pages. When documenting your idea, get a witness, who has no financial interest in your idea, to sign and date the pages.\n\nD - Determine Competition:\n\nWho is your competition? Find out what they re doing and develop your product with benefits and features that are better than the competition. For example, if your product is meant to save time, it must save more time than other products. If you have a completely new idea, it must perform better than the product that you re trying to replace. While we often like to think there is no competition, there are possible similar products. For example, you might have a new type of toothbrush that is unique. But people might be satisfied with their simple $2 toothbrush or Listerine strips.\n\nE - Evaluate for Marketability:\n\nBefore you invest in a patent or go into production, evaluate your product idea for marketability. Your product must solve a problem or satisfy a need or want. It must also, be better than the competition. Ask yourself if there are large numbers of people who would buy your product other than your friends and family? Also, visualize your product in a finished state and sketch an advertisement. What are the compelling benefits to excite people to buy your product? If none, why build the product?\n\nA - Analyze for Profit Potential:\n\nHow much are people willing to spend for your product versus your costs and expenses? How many will you sell? What are the unit costs and expenses related to developing and marketing your product?\n\nS - Select a Target Market:\n\nOther than everyone can you identify a group of consumers or businesses who will benefit most from your product? You can earn a lot of money by serving a particular group of people. Find a segment of people who have the greatest needs and wants for your product. You must tailor your product and marketing messages to a specific market group based on consumer demographics, business type, or location. You can select a market based on benefits sought such as safety, saving money, improving health or others.\n\nConclusion\n\nOften people rush to get a patent, prototype, and go into production only to find the product is not selling. They later find that there is really no need in the market for the product. Or, the product benefits don t outweigh the selling price. Once you perform the above IDEAS and are satisfied with the results, then consider filing a patent, creating a prototype, and going into production. By getting a patent too early, inventors find themselves committed down a path and find it difficult to change course when new knowledge of the market is gained. Or, by spending all your money on patents and production, there s nothing left to perform the necessary marketing.
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If you don't already have a copyright on the idea they can just steal the idea from you, create the product themselves and cut you out completely... If you've got a copyright then go for it.
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So which was it?\n\nDid you "put it on to be patented" or did you not patent your idea?\n\nIt makes a difference - if you didn't patent your idea you may be out of luck unless you can show that the company making your invention had access to your work
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usually u cant patent ideas unless u have the product.\nBut my friend was in the same situation as you and his idea got stolen by the person from th venture capitalist. They actually marketed his idea!
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Hi Varun, to make money out of your ideas, visit http://www.inventhelp.com/ This site help inventors with a product, or even an idea to reach the potential market. An idea dosen't always need to be a product. There are product designers, who design a product based on the submitted idea. Here's a sequence\n\nIdea Originator -> Product Designer -> Producer/Financer -> Market\n\nAlso, if your idea is Innovative, you can contact a company to sell them the idea. But before showing them the details, you can get them signed a non disclosure contract, so that even in case they reject it, they don't use it. Patents also come for rescue in such situations.
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My advice would be, don't quit your day job. If you have been "recruited" by one of those firms you see on TV or on the Internet, chances are you will end up with nothing significant. For every one good, new idea that makes someone a ton of money, there's thousands of not-so-new ideas. I'd recommend patenting the idea as soon as possible, then researching on your own to see if there is an existing patent that may be too similar to yours for you to be able to sell your product. There is a delay from the time where you request/file your patent to when it is verified, and even that does not guarantee there is not someone else out there who has the same idea already patented.  Also get your own valuation of the idea's worth. You will have to pay fees for these services but it will be better to pay an independant third-party out of your own pocket than to turn your idea over to someone who may not have your best interest at heart.
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what i know, contact a patent attorney, i did once several years ago, but i have not experience and would like to hear wht some of your responses to this, i have bunches of ideas, (where to find the financial backing) good luck with your endeavours, it is a long drawn out process, and fees, yearly,  or whenever, so anyway, much success