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From scams to not knowing the steps, we’ve put together a selection of resources aimed at helping inventors. For your convenience, this section is further broken down into the following categories:

Here’s a listing of all our Inventor’s Help articles:

Advantages of Rapid Prototyping

Rapid prototyping has various advantages relative to regular, traditional prototyping and also to the technologies which have taken its concept further. The revolutionary capability which it introduced is the automatic creation of physical 3D forms from computer images. Moreover, the additive fabrication technique which it utilizes has the ability to produce almost any geometric shape [...]

Financing My Invention

You don’t have to sit around wondering “How am I going to afford financing my invention ?” when there are steps that you yourself should be taking to ensure you are financed appropriately. Your invention is important to the world in some way, but they will never know if you aren’t getting financed to get your invention [...]

Full Service Invention Marketing Companies

There are two things that you must know before you start your search for full service invention marketing companies. First, there aren’t always credible offers, as there can be fraudulent companies out there that you must be wary of. Second, finding a credible company will definitely offer great benefits for inventors that aren’t quite sure [...]

Government Money for Inventors

Until recently, inventors were dependent upon their own funds or, if they were close to the breadline as was most often the case, on the good intentions and support of their patrons. For example, Einstein had Max Planck to finance his early years and Da Vinci had the Borgia family. The idea of patronage is [...]

Grants for Building an Invention Prototype

Are you interested in grants for building an invention prototype, but not sure if they even exist for your invention or market? There are important measures you can use to search and research, and find out for yourself, as well as seek out the advice, guidance, and even assistance of invention marketing and manufacturing companies [...]

How Can I Get Money to Start My Own Business?

One of the first questions an entrepreneur will ask is “How can I get money to start my own business?” It is no question that it can be much more difficult to obtain needed finance for small business startups—which is why you must be aware of the options around you. There are many resources for [...]

How to Get a Prototype of Your Invention

Producing a prototype for an invention is not always essential. In order to convey an idea to an investor or company representative, it may be sufficient to provide a graphic presentation. If the design is computer aided and produced by a specialist design company it will very much look the part, and this may in [...]

How to Patent an Invention

Before patenting an invention, it should first be decided whether it is ‘patentable’. This normally means that it needs to fulfill the following 3 criteria whereby it must be: ‘novel’ – i.e. not made public anywhere at any time before the date that the patent is applied for ‘unobvious’ i.e. be inventive and involve ingenuity  [...]

How to Start a Small Business

Wondering how to start a small business? Small businesses are emerging everywhere, and it is almost virtually impossible to establish your business without taking the right steps these days. While the past saw unorganized businesses prosper, the weakened economy of today demands more from their entrepreneurs and small businesses-requiring that you remain on top of [...]

Importance of a Patent Search

An inventor seeks to have an invention patented usually because of a wish to gain from it commercially and, at the same time, to prevent others from taking commercial advantage of it. Having a patent gives an inventor legal powers to seek redress if another party imitates the invention. Having produced something sufficiently original and [...]

Importance of Market Research Before You Create an Invention

Market research is a tool for converting a new product or invention into cash. There is no sense in spending time, effort and money making an item which either duplicates an existing patented or well-established product, or does not satisfy some previously unsatisfied need or desire of consumers. The most basic level of market research [...]

Invention Design Development

Have you encountered the invention design development stage of your idea and feel a bit anxious about the experience to come? There is a lot that will have to do with confidentiality, followed by a process that involves various steps you will complete either on your own or with the help of a qualified company [...]

Invention Help

For novice inventors, the inspiration itself may come easily but they may find they need help getting their invention started. Fortunately there are a great many resources available for exactly this situation. In any area where dreams and vanity are concerned, there are always people looking to try and exploit these illusions. Therefore it makes [...]

Invention Manufacturing Company

Inventors today have a wealth of options when it comes to commercializing their ideas to a profitable level. While selling invention ideas is often a chosen route for investors desiring a profit without the risks of self-management, you can also choose an invention manufacturing company if you desire to manage your own invention and even [...]

New Product Launch

Once a product has been developed, it needs to be launched as effectively as possible in order to make it a success. The theory behind achieving this can be isolated from the specific product or industry thus giving rise to product launch checklists, product launch formulae and product launch plans which may be delivered by [...]

Rapid Prototype Machine

It is only obvious that to perform rapid prototyping, a rapid prototype machine must be used—but which one? There are different machines out there today used by engineers, designers, manufacturers, and rapid prototyping companies, all which ensure faster processes during rapid prototyping of your invention for commercializing. Rapid prototyping machines can differ from company to [...]

Rapid Prototyping Costs

Rapid prototyping is not a procedure that is generally suitable for the stereotypical inventor who dreams up gadgets to solve the problems of daily life. His or her requirement is for a physical representation which demonstrates the idea in a way that can be readily understood by friends and family, and ultimately someone who might [...]

Selling Invention Ideas

Do you know the ins and outs of selling invention ideas? Unfortunately, there are several inventors out there that just don’t know much about the selling process. There are specific steps you must follow, various channels to operate through, and multiple methods by which you can sell your ideas, if you wish to do so. [...]

Types of Rapid Prototyping

While your ideas may be great for manufacturing, you may not know the different prototyping methods that are available to ensure that you are able to ensure that your products are able to enter the market for sale or manufacturing as quickly as possible, such as the different types of rapid prototyping. It is no [...]

What is Rapid Prototyping?

Rapid prototyping (RP) was developed and first used in the 1980’s. It is a somewhat misleading term because its defining feature is not its speed – although it is, relatively speaking, a speedy process that can in some cases take only hours. The definition of rapid prototyping is the automatic fabrication of an object directly [...]