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Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights
Your invention deserves protection. Learn how to use provisional patents, utility patents, trademarks, and copyrights to protect your intellectual property.
 
Protecting Your Intellectual Property
Patent Presentation - North Plains Inventors Congress
Expert Panel - North Plains Inventors Congress
The Patent Process
5-Minute Inventing - Part 7: Patenting Your Invention Idea
Save 15% on Patent Software
Protecting Your Ideas - Do-It-Yourself Patents
Patents and Inventing Part 2: Getting a Patent
5-Minute Inventing - Part 4: How to Save 50% on Patent Costs
Patents and Inventing Part 1: Patent Basics
What's the Difference Between Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights?
USPTO Commissioner John Doll's Presentation
Patents and Inventing Part 4: Determining Patent Value
  • Start Inventing
    How you can think of invention ideas, how to document them.
     
  • Due Diligence
    Ensure you are working on the RIGHT invention. Learn about patent searches, how to find competing products, market research, pricing, and estimating costs.
     
  • Design Your Invention
    Learn how to best sketch, draw, and design your inventions and ideas.
     
  • Prototypes and Models
    Time to put that idea into physical form. Information on prototyping, working models, and the difference between alpha and beta prototypes.
     
  • Financing Inventions
    You're going to need money, find out how to get it.
     
  • Licensing Your Invention
    You decide not to build a business around your invention and instead want to license it. Find out how.
     
  • Manufacturing Your Invention
    Want to manufacture your invention? Find out what you need to know and how to do it.
     
  • Building a Business
    Thinking about your invention like a business? Business plans, incorporating, website design, hiring, and other topics of interest to inventors and entrepreneurs.
     
  • Marketing, Sales, and Public Relations
    If you have an invention, you better think about selling it. Information here will help you use marketing, advertising, public relations to convert sales into profits.
     
  • Audio Tips for Inventors
    Stephen KeyStephen Key, an ultra-successful serial inventor with over 20 products licensed in the last 15 years, and Andrew Krauss, founder of one of the largest inventor groups in the US, share their tips for IdeaTango inventors.

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