The Independent Inventor's Handbook: The Best Advice from Idea to Payoff, Paperback/Louis Foreman

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Contributor(s):Author: Louis Foreman Author: Jill Gilbert Welytok 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.  Review citations Library Journal / Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended - pg. 72 - 11/15/2009Library Journal / Exceptional Presentation - pg. 72 - 11/15/2009Library Journal / Book Of Special Distinction - pg. 72 - 11/15/2009Library Journal / Top 15 Book Of The Year - pg. 72 - 11/15/2009Library Journal / Highly Recommended - pg. 72 - 11/15/2009