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August 13, 2016 by Charles

Invention Idea or New Product Need Documentation “step one of invention process”

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Write down everything you can think of that relates to your invention, from what it is and how it works.

Inventors – you’ve probably heard about the “poor man’s patent” – writing your idea down and mailing it to yourself in a sealed envelope so you have dated proof of your invention’s conception. This is unreliable and unlikely to hold up in court. As of the date of this post the new patent law requires that whoever files a patent first is the owner. You should always consult with a professional patent attorney.

If you need to work with other people or companies before filing a patent always try to have the person or company you are dealing with sign a Non Disclosure Agreement form or contract (we have a link to one at near the bottom of the our home page.

Inventions – you should have a rough sketch or drawing of your invention made as soon as possible and include approximate dimensions. This will help when you need to work with a product design company for a 3d CAD design which will be needed for the prototype and manufacturing process and for your patent attorney.
Invention New Idea Patent
Inventors, many times, will first file a “Provisional Patent” with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. A provisional patent gives an inventor a one year grace period at a lower cost than a full long term (non-provisional) Utility or Design patent.

If you need to work with other people or companies before filing a patent always try to have the person or company you are dealing with sign a Non Disclosure form or contract.


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I’m here to assist and service inventors, companies and organizations with all their invention ideas with design, Prototypes, manufacturing drawings and manufacturing.

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August 5, 2016 by Charles

CAD Design and Analysis for Inventions / Products

CAD design for Products and Inventions includes the following:

Easy Reproduction: you can recreate the CAD drawing with faster turn-around time and make as many copies as you need.

CAD Design 3D Design
CAD Design/ 3D Design

3D Modeling: 3D modeling from CAD designs can be used to quickly establish a benchmark prototype design.

Analysis Simulation: The 3D CAD geometry can be utilized to imitate real-time process, which helps give you analysis management of the efficiency of the design before building a prototype.

Higher efficiency: Since opportunity demands and CAD designs are rationally connected, a change in design is unquestioningly shown into the designing instantly.

Access Control: With CAD services it is achievable to limit some customers from obtaining critical project information and designs.

Savings: The hand sketch method may need hundreds of documents, but with CAD each Drawing is customized, saved digitally to save time and money.

Many manufacturers will request a CAD Design in a STP, STEP or IGS, IGES file design drawings format for designing molds or pricing manufactured parts for your invention idea or product.

IGES or IGS Files (design file format used in the manufacturing process) stands for Initial Graphics Exchange Specification and is a file format which defines a vendor neutral data format that allows the digital exchange of information among Computer-Aided Design (CAD) systems. It can be used by many CAD programs as a standard ASCII text-based format for saving and exporting vector data, and can store wireframe models, surface or solid object representations, circuit diagrams, and other objects. The IGS format has become the default standard file format for transferring 3D model files between the different CAD software packages. Once a user has created a model file in one specific software to send it to another user who does not have that same program without any concern whether or not the recipient will have the ability to open or view the file.

STEP or STP Files (design file format used in the manufacturing process) is a file extension for a 3-D graphic file used by CAD software. STEP stands for STandard for the Exchange of Product model data. STP files are used to store 3D image data in an ASCII format, following the standards defined in ISO 10303-21 : Clear Text Encoding of the Exchange Structure.


A message from Anthony the president/owner:

I’m here to assist and service inventors, companies and organizations with all their CAD and Manufacturing Design Drawings.

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January 24, 2016 by Charles

How Can 3D Printing Help Inventors?

3D printing is also known as 3d rapid prototyping. It is a prototyping process whereby a real object is created from a 3D CAD design. The digital 3D CAD model design is saved in STL file format and then sent to the 3D printer. The 3D printer will now have the three dimensional instructions to print the design layer by layer from a flat build bed.
3D printing Help for Inventors
“3D Printing has emerged as the most valuable new tool for inventors looking for prototypes”.
“3D printing is positively impacting many industries, such as automotive, medical, business & industrial equipment and mostly consumer products”.

Print 3D Prototypes in hours, obtain feedback, refine designs and repeat the cycles quickly until designs are perfect. This enables you to bring products to market before your competition does and at lower development cost.

3D Printed Prototype for Product Development
3D Printed Product Prototype

3D printing can provide great savings on assembly costs because it can print already assembled products. With 3D printing, companies can now experiment with new ideas and numerous test designs with no extensive time or tooling expense. They can decide if product concepts are worth funding.


A message from the president and owner of the company:

I’m here to assist inventors, companies and organizations with their Prototyping needs. I will supply you with expert product licensing services and solutions.

Thanks for taking the time to view this product invention development website and I look forward to hearing from you.
Anthony

Product Development, Licensing and Invention Help Phone 772-934-6014

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December 27, 2014 by Charles

Help For Inventors With An Invention

So, you are an inventor that has created a brilliant new invention that you know will fly off store shelves.

inventors help for inventions
In 2012, the United States Patent and Trademark Office reported that 1.5 million patent applications were pending, compared with around 269,000 in 1992. And the office issued around 270,000 patents in 2012, about 160,000 more than two decades before.

Deciding how to protect and bring your revolutionary new invention to market is a challenge.
Below are some basics steps that I use to guide me down the right road.

1. Can your invention be protected with a patent?
Before moving forward I would check to see if your invention qualifies for a legitimate patent. The first step in patenting is to find out if your invention qualifies for a patent. This is done by completing a patent search. You can do this yourself on the Internet, but I don’t recommend it. I have done six patent searches myself, including three at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office in Washington, DC, and have come to understand that searching is best done by the professional who does it full time. The professionals almost always find critical patents that we amateurs will miss when we do our own searches.

A professional searcher will review the patent files, and make copies of patents that cover inventions similar to yours. To determine how the discovered patents affect your invention, and whether or not you can probably even get a patent, you should have a patentability opinion. Your patentability opinion should be in writing, and should be prepared by a patent attorney or patent agent. See more on this in my article,

2. File for a provisional patent?
As of march 2013 it is no longer who invents, it is who files the patent first.
A provisional patent is a low cost way to begin the patent process by offering you a starting date for patent protection for one year.
If you intend to license your invention to a manufacturer or sell it outright most people and especially companies will NOT pay you merely for an idea for a product. Corporations consider that all inventions are in the public domain until you prove otherwise by receiving a patent.

3. Is your invention marketable?Invention help for Inventors
Other than psychic value, there is no value to an invention that will not succeed in the market. Thus, the first step is always to determine your invention’s marketability. There are several ways to assess marketability:
•Ask friends and relatives what they think.
•Get a formal evaluation from a university.
•Talk to chain store buyers.
•Have a market study made by a legitimate marketing expert.

4. Make a prototype of the invention.
When you create the prototype before you apply for a patent, you may discover patentable features that you missed when your invention was only a sketch or drawing. A prototype almost always help you to pin down the details of your invention, and such details help in the patenting process.

5. Apply for a full utility patent or design patent for your invention.
This is generally the big step for inventors. If you have filed a provisional patent, as mentioned above, A full patent isn’t cheap, but there are a couple of things you can do to reduce its cost. Also, there are three conditions under which you may not want to apply for a patent: 1) the patentability opinion states that you probably won’t be able to get a meaningful (strong) patent; 2) the cost of the patent is too high in relation to the probable income you can make from the invention; 3) the market is small enough that competition is unlikely, and therefore your best bet is to use the money for tasks other than patenting.

6. Marketing or licensing or produce your invention?
By marketing I mean one of two possible approaches: License (or sell outright) the rights to your patent, or produce it and take it to market. For details on licensing or outright sale see my post article, “What is Product Licensing or Invention Licensing”
For producing your invention yourself you should consider whether or not you are entrepreneurial. If you are the kind of inventor who comes up with many ideas and inventions, you may be too much the creative type to be successful as an entrepreneur. But if you are the kind of person who is organized, focused, goal oriented, and gets things done, producing may be the better path for you for providing you have the capital.


A message from the president and owner of the company:

I’m here to assist inventors, companies and organizations with their Prototyping needs. I will supply you with expert product licensing services and solutions.

Thanks for taking the time to view this product invention development website and I look forward to hearing from you.
Anthony

Product Development, Licensing and Invention Help Phone 772-934-6014

Filed Under: Inventor Help

June 29, 2014 by Charles

Invention Product Development Stages and Steps

invention product development helpDeveloping and launching a product can often make or break a business, especially a startup business or individual inventor. The product development steps may vary based on the nature of the business or inventor’s management style, but most will eventually follow or fall within the fourteen product development process steps below:

1) Your Invention Idea or New Product
You should write down what your idea is and if possible draw a rough sketch or drawing and include approximate dimensions.

2) Product Idea Research and Evaluation Against Similar Competition and Ideas
Before investing time and money one of the first steps is to find out if your invention qualifies for a patent. This is done by completing a patent search. Also; all products that are for sale or described in publications (this includes internet) for at least one year may not be patented therefore you must check the market place to make sure your idea is not already in the public domain.

3) File a Patent
A provisional patent is a low cost way to begin the patent process by offering you a starting date for patent protection for one year. This one year time period will give you time to perform your research before filing your longer term design or utility patent.

4) Possibility of Licensing
When you license a product to a reputable product broker or manufacturer they’re going to advertise it, market it, manufacture it and put their money into the project.
If you decide not to license keep following the below list.
“Please keep in mind you may license a product idea or invention at any point in this product development process.”

5) Potential Market Evaluation
There is no value to an invention that will not succeed in the market. Thus, the first step in invention profitability is always to determine your invention’s marketability against what may already exist in the market place.

6) Product Design and Analysis
Product CAD design technology enables the creation of fully functional three dimensional product animation and product renderings, as well as access to the necessary engineering and design to bring the invention or product design to life.

7) Prototype Building, Testing and Perfecting
When you create the prototype before you apply for a patent, you may discover patentable features that you missed when your invention was only a sketch or drawing. A prototype after filing for a patent is important as well; it well help you improve your product and help to better explain your product to an investor or manufacturer.

8) Consumer Product Testing, Proofing and Customer Feedback
You will need to test your product to ensure that the product operates as expected. Product testing is one reason why a prototype is important.

9) Apply for a full utility patent or design patent for your invention
This is generally the big step for inventors. If you have filed a provisional patent, as mentioned above, you should have much of your patent work completed. If you have not filed a provisional patent you or your patent attorney will need drawings and full product description.

10) Product Manufacturing
The below items should be in place before you contact a manufacturer;
a) Invention Concept
b) 3D Modeling CAD Design
c) Working product proof of function – a prototype
d) 3D STEP file or IGS file CAD design drawings for manufacturing

11) Marketing Strategy
A Marketing strategy is sorting out who your customers actually are and figuring the most cost effective means of reaching them.

12) Sales and Distribution
How is your product or service going to get to the customer? Examples; will you distribute your product or service through a website, through the mail, through sales representatives, or through retailers? ALSO; will you drop ship direct from your manufacturer or will you need a warehouse or will you use a fulfillment processing center.

13) Business and Product Management
You will need to know how your customers will pay you (accounts receivable) and you will need to set that payment processing system with a bank account. ALSO; how you will manage your product inventory and quality control.

14) Product Launch
When launching a new product you should focus on attracting consumers or retail buyers (this decision should be made in your “marketing strategy” #11). Always keep track of how your customers are reacting to your new product so product improvements and marketing changes can better performed in the future. Always handle your product with positive enthusiasm.


A message from the president and owner of the company:

I’m here to assist inventors, companies and organizations with their Product Development needs.

Thanks for taking the time to view this product development website and I look forward to hearing from you.
Anthony

Invention Product Design and Development Help Services Phone 772-934-6014

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