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Believe it or not, it’s not as hard as you may think to land a royalty deal on a product invention…provided you have a truly “good” idea to start with, and you have some important steps completed before approaching companies.
To begin, let me step back and explain what I mean by “royalty deal”, [...]

I just came across a great blog post by a fellow attorney, J. Michael Hurst at Keating Muething & Klekamp PLLC. Apparently, 19-year old Jimmy Winkelmann created a company called The South Butt LLC, which was meant as a parody of The North Face.
Here are the two logos at issue:
 

Apparently, Jimmy has a [...]

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 The fastest ways to bring your product to market is to get it on QVC!
 The best, and fastest, way to do that is hire a QVC agent!
What is a QVC Agent?
A QVC Agent is an independent person, or group, that can get your product or new invention in front of a QVC buyer. [...]

If you wonder what the world will be like in the future, the near future that is, take 8 minutes out of your day to watch this presentation at the recent TED conference, where the best of the best gather to take our world to the next level. This particular innovation is an information tool. [...]

This week’s featured invention is “Skissors”, invented by husband and wife Dawn and Bob Kenny. The Kenny team works with our invention commercialization partner, Invention Home, to help them find marketing/licensing opportunities for their invention. They created, developed, and patented their unique product to assist children with the task of learning how to use and properly hold scissors.
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Skissors integrate finger covers over the holes in the handles of [...]

This week’s featured invention is “Rotatable Pill Splitter”, from inventor Walt Cheney.  Walt works with our invention commercialization partner, Invention Home, to help him find marketing/licensing opportunities for his invention.  Walt created, prototyped, and patented a unique product to ease the task of splitting medications in halves and/or quarters.
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Rotatable Pill Splitter gives individuals a convenient and simple way to halve [...]

Brand monitoring is essentially the process of researching mentions of your brand including its name, officers, products, and more.  This is a vital part of branding for many reasons.  It can help you find brand evangelists, join conversations with prospects, correct misinformation, find opportunities for free publicity, police your trademark, or even find ideas for [...]

This week’s featured invention is “PODillow”, from inventor Anthony Calvert.�
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Anthony works with our invention commercialization partner, Invention Home, to help him find marketing/licensing opportunities for his invention.  Anthony created, prototyped and produced a unique product to address a major “pain in the neck”.
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PODillow is a patent-pending, trademarked product which offers individuals a more comfortable way to lie when catching [...]

In the late 60’s Andy Warhol proclaimed his belief that everyone was destined for at least 15 minutes of fame.  While the definition of “fame” may be up for interpretation, the prediction does hold some truth.  It also begs a question for companies.  Will your brand be ready?  If yes, your 15 minutes could easily [...]

Ever call in your spouse, the one without the fear of spiders, to help escort the creepy crawley little monsters outside?
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Inventors Karen Quigg and Anthony Allen have patented a device that could save you arachnophobes countless nights’ sleep and put you in caring control of spider “situations” in your home. They’ve worked closely with our [...]