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Inventing is fun You can do it

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Page 1: Inventing is fun You can do it. What is an invention? New Useful Not Obvious

Inventing is fun

You can do it

Page 2: Inventing is fun You can do it. What is an invention? New Useful Not Obvious

What is an invention?

New

Useful

Not Obvious

Page 3: Inventing is fun You can do it. What is an invention? New Useful Not Obvious

Getting inventions

See problems as opportunities Know something:

Math, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Engineering, Woodworking, Machining, Hydraulics, etc.

Do brain storming in your head

Page 4: Inventing is fun You can do it. What is an invention? New Useful Not Obvious

Next Step Research literature www.uspto.gov

Literature of the fieldChemical Abstracts etc.

Read catalogues Use Bing or Google Read www.life401.com Downloads,

life401, Chapter 11

Page 5: Inventing is fun You can do it. What is an invention? New Useful Not Obvious

File Provisional

Read many patents in the field to get the feel of writing one www.uspto.gov

Write a provisional just like a patent Throw in everything, Think of ways

around the patent and add those also. Do a brain dump

Do it yourself or use a lawyer on www,uspto.gov

Page 6: Inventing is fun You can do it. What is an invention? New Useful Not Obvious

Make a prototype

Test the prototype Market test the prototype Keep your day job but, move fast Start work on the formal patent at

least two months before the provisional lapses

Page 7: Inventing is fun You can do it. What is an invention? New Useful Not Obvious

Run Fast