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You’ve just invented a new technology, a must-have product.
So what now? Patent it? Manufacture it? Sell it? If you’re like most would-be Edisons, chances are your stroke of genius will collect dust waiting for you to plot your next move.
Fear not, intrepid creator/inventor and author Ronald Louis Docie Sr. shares more than 20 years of valuable insight in this revised and expanded edition of THE INVENTORS’ BIBLE, which now includes a workbook to help you take your ideas from concept to profit.
With everything you need to know about marketing, licensing, and selling your invention, this comprehensive handbook will also help you figure out what your invention is worth, which companies might want your ideas, and what steps to take first. You dreamt it, you created it, and it actually works; let THE INVENTORS’ BIBLE pave the way to your first million.
Revised and expanded guidebook to protecting, patenting, marketing, and selling inventions.
New 64-page pullout workbook walks inventors through each step of the process.
Explains how to save thousands of dollars in patent costs.

RONALD LOUIS DOCIE SR. sold his first invention more than 20 years ago; a safety mirror for vehicles that sells over a million units per year in stores like Kmart, Pep Boys, and Wal-Mart. Docie is a past president of the Ohio Inventors Association

“The book offers an easy-to-understand process for licensing an invention and covers all the necessary steps, from patenting to negotiating a licensing agreement.”
* Entrepreneur

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This essential guide for inventors illustrates how to complete a crucial step in the patenting process -- creating formal patent drawings that comply with the strict rules of the U.S. Patent Office.
Professional patent drafters charge $75 to $100 per sheet to prepare patent drawings. Now, with How to Make Patent Drawings Yourself, you can do your own drawings and save yourself hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

Patent Searching Made Easy: How to do Patent Searches on hte Internet& in the Library
by David Hitchcock

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Inventors, use this book to:
- verify the patent status of an idea
- search Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries
- use online patent search services

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 book, Patent Searching Made Easy, you can learn to do patent searches yourself, on the Internet, at little or no cost.

A physicist, engineer, and patent searching expert, Hitchcock gives you the vocabulary, instructions and strategies you need to search for a patent quickly and easily. He explains how the PTO classifies different types of inventions, so that you can assign your idea to the right class, compare it to related ideas and then determine if it’s novel enough to qualify for a patent.

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Trademarks -- the names and symbols that identify your business, brand and products in the marketplace -- are important assets that you need to choose carefully, then vigilantly protect.
With Trademark, you get the most up-to-date information you need to defend your creations. Learn how to:
- choose distinctive marks that competitors can’t copy
- search for other marks that might conflict with your own
- register your name or other mark with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO)
- protect your marks from use by others and maintain their legal strength
- understand and resolve trademark disputes outside the courtroom
- apply trademark law to domain names and web pages

Thoroughly revised and updated, the latest edition of Trademark provides all new information regarding the latest domain names, changes to the USPTO’s electronic trademark programs, new electronic forms for various marks, new information on the Federal Dilution Act -- and much more.
It also includes a new glossary of trademark terms.

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Ignorance is not bliss in the information age. If you create original works, you must understand copyright law or risk becoming a skid mark on the information superhighway.

The Copyright Handbook provides you with all the information and forms you’ll need to protect all types of creative expression under U.S. and international copyright law. Written in plain English, this must-have handbook tells you everything you need to know about:
- how to register a written work with the copyright office
- what works can be protected
- when and how to use a copyright notice
- copyright protection for works for hire, adaptations, new editions, electronic mail, literary works and - periodicals, and compilations (databases and catalogs)
- rights and duration of ownership
- transfer of copyright ownership
- what constitutes infringement and how to avoid it
- how to recognize an adapted or recast work
- fair use: when and how copyrighted material can be used
- electronic publishing rights
- registration of multimedia works and multimedia rights
- how to protect written works on the Internet

The Copyright Handbook provides you with the step-by-step instructions and all the forms you need to register your copyright, as tear-outs and on CD-ROM.

Completely updated to provide the latest in law and court rulings, the 7th edition provides an all new chapter that covers taxation of copyrights, including how to deduct writing business expenses and avoid the pitfall of the IRS’s hobby loss rule.

The Bellavances’ guide, though, will help take some of the sweat out of getting a patent and bringing a new product to market. Inventors themselves, the authors provide clear explanations, thorough details, candid advice, and important caveats for each step of the process.
They explain what patents are, why they are necessary, and how to get one, but they also highlight several misconceptions about them. Moreover, they follow through with the entire spectrum of practical marketing tips. Among the considerations they include are licensing, test marketing, invention promotion groups, identifying and selecting manufacturers, trade shows, etc.
They also recommend that those conducting a patent search put themselves in the hands of the "trustworthy and highly trained staff" at the various patent depository libraries.

This comment alone shows that the Bellavances know what they are talking about and guarantees the value of their guidance. David Rouse

Don’t risk a small fortune trying to make a big one. Let acclaimed consultant Don Debelak show you how to get your exciting new product off the drawing board and into the marketplace—without losing your shirt! In this book, you’ll learn what every inventor and entrepreneur needs to know about manufacturing techniques, product design, distribution channels, patents, licensing, and cash flow. You’ll also discover how to handle some very tricky issues that are crucial to your success, including:  
- Knowing when your product is market ready  
- Creating a step-by-step product-to-market strategy  
- Adjusting your strategy to changing market conditions  
- Finding financial help from investors, manufacturers, and distributors  
- Having manufacturers pay development costs prior to licensing 

So many inventors concentrate their energies on technically solving problems without any regard for whether there are any buyers that might want solutions to the problem or whether the invention’s cost will be higher than the customer’s perceived value for the solution. 
It is a myth that the public can be sold anything by a good marketer. Marketing studies and anecdotal evidence make it clear that only one or two out of 1000 invention ideas are ever successful in the marketplace. Of those 1000 ideas maybe 100 are pushed through the patent process and out of the 100 that get patented maybe 2 actually generate more revenue than the cost of the patent. This book was written to help rectify the problem with the hope of boosting the number of profitable patents from 2 per 100 to somewhere between 10 and 30 per 100. The book should also make it possible for many of the 900 inventors that get stopped because of a lack of funds to pay the patenting costs. There are simple ways to figure out how to inexpensively proceed without paying patenting costs up-front yet fully protecting all patenting right.

Stand Alone, Inventor! : And Make Money
by Robert G. Merrick

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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. 

For over a decade, Winning at New Products has served as the bible for product developers everywhere. In this fully updated and expanded edition, Robert Cooper demonstrates with compelling evidence why consistent product development is so vital to corporate growth and how to maximize your chances of success.

By any measure, most product concepts never make it to market, and of those that do, most fail. Winning at New Products cites the most recent research and showcases innovative practices at such industry leaders as 3M, Exxon Chemical, and Guinness to present a field-tested game plan for achieving product leadership.
Cooper outlines specific strategies for assessing risk, marshalling the appropriate resources, engaging customers in the pre-development discovery phase, evaluating your project portfolio, ensuring true cross-functional collaboration, and, most importantly, applying a rigorous process for making sound business decisions at every step-from idea generation to launch.

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Richard C. Levy, simply put, is a marketing genius with a flair for invention. In the past twenty years, he has licensed over 125 products including Furby(r), and the best-selling game "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus." Richard holds more than 30 patents. This is his twelfth book.

He was profiled on Discovery Channel’s Invention series, and in interviews with The New York Times, and The Washington Post. An MIT Inventor-of-the-Week, Richard has spoken at Wharton’s Entrepreneurship Conference, IBM, and the USPTO’s Independent Inventors Conference, among other engagements.
His products have generated over $1 billion in combined retail sales.

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Any interested in the world of inventions or creative design will find Turn Your Idea Or Invention Into Millions an important guide to thinking like a professional inventor, from obtaining patents, copyrights and trademarks to calculating wholesale and retail prices and avoiding scams. Any inventor will find this packed with important, practical applications.