Inventing For Dummies

- Foreword
- Introduction

Part I: Assessing Your Idea
- Chapter 1: The Innovation Process
- Chapter 2: Keeping It Confidential
- Chapter 3: Intellectual Property Basics
- Chapter 4: Searching for Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks

Part II: Protecting Your Idea
- Chapter 5: Applying for Your Patent
- Chapter 6: Maintaining and Defending Your Patent
- Chapter 7: Applying to Register Your Design
- Chapter 8: Applying to Register Your Trade Mark
- Chapter 9: Using Your Copyright to Stop the Pirates

Part III: Developing Your Idea
- Chapter 10: Showing That Your Invention Works
- Chapter 11: Hiring Helpers and Using Service Contracts
- Chapter 12: Evaluating Your Invention's Potential
- Chapter 13: Going into Production

Part IV: Preparing to Enter the Market
- Chapter 14: Developing a Business Plan
- Chapter 15: Finding Funding
- Chapter 16: Keeping Control with Your Own Business
- Chapter 17: Partnering and Manufacturing Arrangements
- Chapter 18: Preparing for Launch

Part V: Developing Your Market
- Chapter 19: Marketing Your Product
- Chapter 20: Advertising Your Product
- Chapter 21: Licensing Your Product
- Chapter 22: Negotiating a Licence

Part VI: The Part of Tens
- Chapter 23: Ten Key Contacts
- Chapter 24: Ten Inventions (and Inventors)
- That Changed the World
- Chapter 25: Ten Inventors to Emulate

Part VII: Appendixes
- Appendix A: Sample Agreements
- Appendix B: Sources of Help

- Index

Peter Jackson is a Patent Attorney, Intellectual Property Consultant, and an adviser to new inventors. Philip Robinson is the inventor of the ZorinPump. Pamela Riddle Bird is the founder of Innovative Product Technologies, Inc.

"...covers every aspect of the invention process, from developing your idea...to building a prototype and starting your own business." The Business July 2008 "...aimed at helping inventors to take their gleam-in-the-eye idea towards commercialisation...valuable sections are intellectual property basics and protecting your idea." Professional Engineering Wednesday 21 May 2008 "...aimed at helping inventors to take their gleam-in-the-eye idea towards commercialisation...valuable sections are intellectual property basics and protecting your idea." Professional Engineering Wednesday 21 May 2008

"...covers every aspect of the invention process, from developing your idea...to building a prototype and starting your own business." The Business July 2008
"...aimed at helping inventors to take their gleam-in-the-eye idea towards commercialisation...valuable sections are intellectual property basics and protecting your idea." Professional Engineering Wednesday 21 May 2008

"...aimed at helping inventors to take their gleam-in-the-eye idea towards commercialisation...valuable sections are intellectual property basics and protecting your idea." Professional Engineering Wednesday 21 May 2008