Are you a typical newbie inventor… frantic to get started making money from your new product idea but not having a clue what to do?
Don’t worry, most people feel the same as you when they start out. The first thing to do is to file a patent application to lock in your legal rights to [...]

Are you a typical newbie inventor… frantic to get started making money from your new product idea but not having a clue what to do?

Don’t worry, most people feel the same as you when they start out. The first thing to do is to file a patent application to lock in your legal rights to your invention. You can file a provisional patent application to lock in “patent pending” for one year. It cannot issue as a patent, but a utility patent application can be based on it if filed during the one year patent pending period can and retain its filing date.

A utility patent application can issue as a patent after going through an examination process at the U.S. Patent Office. To be patentable, your “idea” must new and non-obvious. Usually, before filing a utility patent application, a patent search is conducted to see whether the inventor should invest the money to file one. A provisional patent application is much less expensive and thus a patent search is optional, though advised if other investment is going to be done to bring a product to market.

Once you have locked in patent pending filing one or the other type of patent application, you can tackle marketability and licensing issues, which I will discuss at a later date.

You can sign up for a provisional or utility patent application at:

http://www.inventionpatenting.com/file_provisional.html

You can see more information about provisional patent applications at:

http://www.inventionpatenting.com/provisional_patents.html

Best regards

Brian Rayve

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Do you have a website promoting your new product idea? It can be a great way to promote products. However, there are many pitfalls to doing so naively.
For example, I have been spending thousands of dollars on pay-per-click search engines over the last few years to promote my website. I have received many [...]

Do you have a website promoting your new product idea? It can be a great way to promote products. However, there are many pitfalls to doing so naively.

For example, I have been spending thousands of dollars on pay-per-click search engines over the last few years to promote my website. I have received many click-throughs but the costs have far outweighed any profits made from the clicks.

Recently I read that RELATIONSHIPS count, not CLICKS! I thought to myself duh! Why did I not properly follow-up with all of the people who clicked through and signed-up to download my free Independent Inventor’s Kit? It seems so simple now.

Well, that is why I am now blogging regularly and emailing those click-throughs to establish relationships with them! Most will probably never buy any products or services from me, but those that do will be worth it (financially speaking).

Regardless, I did not get into business solely to make money (though it helps to pay the bills), but to help people. I hope that those people who never become customers are helped by the free information they get from my website.

Well, I hope that you follow-up on the leads, including paid clicks, that you get… they are worth persuing to build those relationships and some end up as friendships.

Remember to offer some incentive (that helps people) to capture contact information… typically at least first name and email… so you can follow up. Also keep in mind that people are flooded with emails these days. Most people throw out 9 out of 10 emails they receive… so make sure your emails offer VALUE to recipients (i.e. supply some knowledge or product worth spending their increasingly scarce time to open and looking at).

In future articles I will write more tips on alternatives to email follow-up. Stay tuned!

Talk to you again soon… remember to follow-up and build those relationships!

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InventionPatenting.com was founded by Brian R. Rayve to educate and assist independent inventors, entrepreneurs, and small business owners in protecting and marketing their inventions.
He has has over 27 years of combined experience in the product design, development, and the legal field.

His background in product design and development includes such diverse industries as arc [...]

Brian R. Rayve

InventionPatenting.com was founded by Brian R. Rayve to educate and assist independent inventors, entrepreneurs, and small business owners in protecting and marketing their inventions. He has has over 27 years of combined experience in the product design, development, and the legal field.

His background in product design and development includes such diverse industries as arc welding equipment, aerospace, off-road earth moving vehicles, medical equipment, and soft drink bottling equipment.

He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, a Juris Doctorate, and a Masters in Business Administration.

He is licensed to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, licensed to practice law in the states of Utah and Ohio, and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Ohio.