Inventing
How to Ensure High-Quality Patent Filings — 5 Key Steps for Portfolio Managers
Portfolio managers face challenges in selecting drafters who balance cost with quality, amidst complex patent jargon. This article aims to make it easier for portfolio managers to get the quality applications drafted.
5 Things to Look for When Hiring a Patent Portfolio Manager
Hiring the right patent portfolio manager is critical to maximizing your enterprise's intellectual property (IP) potential. A competent manager must possess a blend of these five key competencies.
Should You Hire an Invention Development Consultant or Handle It on Your Own? Here's How to Decide.
You've got an idea for the next great product, but now you've got to turn it into reality. Should you hire an invention development consultant or strike out on your own?
This Founder and Inventor Overcame Early Setbacks to Create a Successful Company (and a Temperature-Controlled Coffee Mug)
Cold scrambled eggs actually became the catalyst for Ember's first product, a temperature-controlled coffee mug.
The Top 10 Industries to License Your New Product Ideas in 2021
Where to target your creativity this year.
5 Inventing and Licensing Trends That Will Dominate In 2021
What to know as you're preparing for the year ahead.
Protecting Your Critical Inventions On A Tight Budget
A three-step system to get the most value with little cost.
How to de-risk innovation
In a country where there are 1.3 billion and in a world with over 6 billion more people, you have to make sure you know your reason for innovation
10 Things You Didn't Realize Were Invented in the 1990s
From Google.com to Nintendo 64 -- there's much to attribute to the 1990s.
Robert Herjavec on Entrepreneurship, Working with Inventive Kids and Bringing Prototypes to Life
Is your prototype ready for the next step?
The Simplest Ideas Can Be Extremely Profitable. Here's Proof.
Gene Luoma solved a universal problem -- clogged drains -- with a strip of plastic from his garage. His device has sold 33 million units.
5 Ways to Create an Almost-There Prototype Marketing Video
Building it makes your idea real; video captures it visually. Do less of the first and more of the second to test the market sooner.
The 4 Biggest Mistakes Inventors Make
Product development is a business. You can't afford rookie errors.
Winning at Inventing Is a Numbers Game
Inventors too often focus on patents and expensive prototypes when what they really need is proof of demand.
Have a Lot of Clever Ideas? License Them to the Novelty Gift Industry.
When I walked into Hallmark and saw "Sweet Darts," darts inscribed with the words 'I'm Stuck On You," I smiled. Seeing my name on the back never got old.