Inventor Tip #1-The US Patent and Trademark Office website, www.uspto.gov, is a great free online patent resource for inventors, young and old, to learn more about how to patent a new invention, or how to conduct a patent search in the patent database.

Inventor Tip #2-By taking advantage of the provisional patent application offered through the United States Patent Office, inventors gain 1 full year of patent pending protection which gives them the time to evaluate the value of their invention by contacting manufacturers, investors, retailers, and marketers, with the confidence of having patent pending status with th USPTO

Inventor Tip #3-Having a working prototype or a computer generated 3d version of a prototype will help convey to others, the true market value of your invention.

Inventor Tip #4-There are several ways you can get your product to the market through a manufacturer. You can either sell your invention outright to a manufacturer of similar products for a flat fee, or you can license it to a manufacturer who will add it to an existing retail line, and pay you in a variety of ways, including but not limited to, up-front money/royalties based on sales. When the time comes to approach a manufacturer, consideration should be given to the use or consultation of a licensing agent/attorney.

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If people oppose your innovative efforts remember these facts:

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
--Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.

"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." --Western Union internal memo, 1876.

“Mr. Bell, after careful consideration of your invention, while it is a very interesting novelty, we have come to the conclusion that it has no commercial possibilities." -- J. P. Morgan's comments on behalf of the officials and engineers of Western Union after a demonstration of the telephone.

"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" --David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" --H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
--Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" --Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." --Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981.

"If at first, the idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it." -- Albert Einstein.

“At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.” -- Aldous Huxley.

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man." --G. B. Shaw.

“I watched his countenance closely, to see if he was not deranged... and I was assured by other Senators after we left the room that they had no confidence in it." --Reaction of Senator Smith of Indiana after Samuel Mores demonstrated his telegraph before member of Congress in 1842.

In 1908 Billy Durant, in trying to raise money to create an automobile trust, boasted to J.P. Morgan & Co. "that the time would come when half a million automobiles a year will be running on the roads of this country." This annoyed Morgan partner George W. Perkins who said "If that fellow has any sense, he'll keep those observations to himself." Unable to raise capital in Wall Street, Durant went home and put together something called General Motors.

“A game in which you fly around in space and shoot up other space ships? That is the stupidest idea that I have ever heard.” --Atari manager.

Famous Quotations on Innovation

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come" --Victor Hugo

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity" --Oscar Levant

"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination" --John Dewey

"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next" --John Stuart Mill

"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless" --Jean-jacques Rousseau

"Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress" --Theodore Levitt

"Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created" --Albert Einstein.

"No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess"
--Isaac Newton.

"Success is on the far side of failure" --Thomas Watson Sr.

"That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time" --John Stuart Mill

"If you're going through hell, keep going" --Sir Winston Churchill