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Hi everyone - I have noticed many people looking to learn if their invention is "good enough to sell to retail stores" or "if their idea is good and can it sell" and many other related comments. The bottom line is that no one person can give a 100% accurate opinion as to whether a product will do well at retail. WHat needs to be done is to have your product evaluated via consumer surveys and focus groups. Since this work can be done online and for a reasonable price, you can get the opinions of dozens if not hundreds of "potential" customers and that means much more than anyone's own personal opinion of your invention. Remember, your friends and family love you and will always tell you your invention is great and that they would buy it...reality though is that you want the opinions of strangers to get the most objective view... Thanks...Jim www.decavicorp.com |
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I just initiated a discussion with one of the companies I license one of my products to. Apparently they have been making my product with various modifications but keeping the overall design of it. The patent on the product has not issued, but even if it had, the modifications they have made would not mean they have infringed. HOWEVER - I spoke with a copyright attorney and was advised that the design engineer drawings that I gave them to make my product are considered mine under copyright law. As a result, even though the modifications to the inside prohibited me from payment on my patent rights, it is enforceable under copyright law! That's right, I am going to get paid on the design now...and I DID not register the copyrights. Imagine that! |
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If you are looking to publish your book using outside resources, please be advised to do a thorough research prior to choosing the literary agent, the printer and what type of printer (Offset printing, vanity press, Print On Demand). We are here to provide you with resources to help you reach your dream to call yourself an "Author". We want to help all of your aspiring authors on how to go around the loopholes and not be victim of scams and agencies promising you the world. We will help all of you, even those who are just considering writing, either poems, health and fitness, business, fiction, non-fiction, childrens, self-help etc.. This is your journey, ladies and gentlemen, getting yourself publish yet still keeping control of your destiny. You slaved for several months or years to write a book, to edit it, to get the copyright sold to someone else? I don't think so. Yours truly, Dan Amzallag Inventor, Author and self-publisher |
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Viewing the various blog and forum comments, a recurring pattern of action, or more correctly inaction, appears to emerge. Many inventors in need of financial support seek that support by sharing with potential investors their ideas, concepts, etc. without first having protected them. If an individual freely discloses his/her ideas without protecting them and another party "steals" the idea, there is likely little if any recourse for the inventor. The legal system will often view this not as though the other party "stole" the idea, but that the inventor "gave it away". If one can not afford to protect the concept via patent or trademark, at a minimum the inventor should make use of a Non-Disclosure Agreement. If anyone has questions on how to properly protect their concepts, please contact me at contact@demayconsulting.com.
David M. DeMay
Patent Attorney
DeMay Consulting,LLC. |
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I just finished reading an article in Fortune Small Business (FSB) about the Patent Reformation Bill that Congress is considering. What a mess! The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is now earning $1.7 billion annually and it takes an average of 31 months to approve a patent. The bill being considered has reasonable arguments from both sides, but no matter which way it goes, it will continue to be a profitable venture for the USPTO and a difficult venture at best for the independent inventor! |
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