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Don Debelak is a new-business marketing consultant and the author of Bringing Your Product to Market(John Wiley & Sons). Send him your invention questions at dondebelak@uswest.net.
This article was originally published in the October 2000 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: Free Patent Advice.
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