by abeckley | Jun 13, 2015 | Career success, Innovation, Invention, Invention failure, Keys to Success, Marketing, Patent Search, Patent strategy, product pricing, Success rates, Why inventors fail
Like most businesses, invention has its myths and its maths. Myths are beliefs that, while intriguing and enticing, simply are not true – they are myths. Maths are the opposite of myths; they are concepts that are intrinsically true, but, far from being...
by abeckley | Jan 24, 2015 | Invention, Patent Search, Patent strategy, Patents
New inventors tend to put a great deal of focus on filing and prosecuting patents. Not every invention is patentable, however, nor should every invention be patented. This essential fact is often overlooked. There are three patenting options every inventor should...
by abeckley | Jun 22, 2014 | Invention, Keys to Success, Marketing, Patent strategy, Patents
Among the most commonly cited keys to invention success are: obtaining a strong patent, effectively marketing your product, etc. I thought it would be interesting to address 5 often overlooked keys to inventing success – starting with B for Balancing Risk versus...
by abeckley | Jun 19, 2014 | Critiquing ideas, Ideas, Importing, Invention, Keys to Success, Licensing, Patent Search, Patent strategy, Patents
Welcome to the last posting of the A to Z of Inventing series. I hope you have enjoyed them as I have attempted to cover an arc of the key invention topics from A to Z in this series. this final post is really just a recap, a sort of index. In the first five posts of...
by abeckley | May 14, 2014 | Ideas, Invention, Licensing, Patent Search, Patent strategy, Patents, Strategy
In the previous post – N – Next Steps – What to do Now? – we discussed that, upon completion of your patent search on USPTO.gov, you would find very few patents similar to your invention (unlikely), a fair number of patents (10 – 20), or quite a lot of patents that...
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