Effective Communication

The Importance of Effective Communication in the Invention Process

When it comes to bringing your ideas to life, effective communication is key. At For Sale By Inventor, we understand that the collaboration between your genius ideas and our expertise can result in amazing inventions becoming a reality. However, there are some common categories of information that may get overlooked during the invention process which could have major implications for legal protection, production, and sale of your idea.

The Expertise of the Inventor

As the inventor, you have an intimate knowledge about your invention that no one else possesses. You know how it works and what it does better than anyone else. Our role is to work with you to elicit this information and reconfigure it into a format required by the USPTO, Copyright Office and marketplace at large.

List of Information to Remember to Communicate

While communicating the basic idea or invention may not be difficult for most inventors, there are several categories of information that are often neglected:

Changes: Let us know if you have any changes to your invention as soon as possible so that they can be incorporated into any documents or designs we are filing on your behalf.
Test Results: If you’ve performed any tests on your invention, let us know the results because this information may be critical to our engineer’s assessment and description of your invention.
Contact Information: If you’ve changed your address, phone number, or email account let us know so we can keep you up-to-date with the status of your invention.
Proofreading: Carefully proofread anything that we send to you for review to ensure that what we’ve written accurately describes your invention.
Sales: Let us know if you’ve begun to sell your invention as this might impact any decisions being made with respect to its marketing.
Timely Responses: Timely respond to all requests from our office for additional information because some deadlines imposed by the USPTO can be unforgiving.

By addressing list of information in a timely manner, inventors can avoid potential impediments to their inventions’ legal protection, production and sale.

Effective communication is crucial throughout the entire invention process. At For Sale By Inventor, we promise to keep inventors apprised of important deadlines but sometimes accurate responses require feedback from inventors themselves. Remembering these simple tips will ensure that nothing gets overlooked and help bring those Eureka! moments into reality!

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Statement Of Non-Disclosure and Complete Confidentiality Complete this form for a free, no obligation review of your idea.

This Record of Invention Form certifies that you are the originator of the invention disclosed, including all additional information submitted moving forward from this date. This Non-Disclosure Agreement certifies that nobody within or associated with For Sale By Inventor may knowingly manufacture, sell, distribute or attempt to profit from your invention in any way from the date you submit your invention.

The information you submit may be shared with a separate patent law firm to evaluate patentability and intellectual property rights. The information shared with a separate patent law firm will be bound by attorney client privilege.

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The purpose of the Inventor Disclosure is to inform inventors that the process of creating a new product/concept and developing it into a commercial success is extremely difficult, time consuming, often frustrating, confusing and usually costly. To succeed, inventors normally must accomplish, at a high level: the legal process (patents, copyrights, trademarks, etc); engineering, scientific or technical factors; production concerns; and, market distribution. For an individual inventor, this can be a daunting task and should be carefully considered before risking talents, time, energies and capital.

Although an inventor can always represent themselves, inventors are strongly encouraged to seek advice and assistance only from licensed professionals. For Sale By Inventor’s mission is to provide coordinated, professional services for inventors to help launch their invention ideas into new products onto the market.

For Sale By Inventor specializes in consulting, researching and educating small and micro entity inventors. For Sale By Inventor never evaluates an invention in terms of potential marketability.

For Sale By Inventor refers all patent and engineering work to a separate patent law firm on behalf of inventor clients. Advertising, virtual prototypes, websites and representation services are provided by Advertising – Generation, LLC through their proprietary website ForSaleByInventor.com. This process ensures a coordinated effort and complete confidentiality.

For Sale By Inventor and any related entities neither singularly nor collectively, considers itself to be an invention promoter or developer; regardless, the following is disclosed in the spirit of full disclosure.

The total number of inventors who contacted For Sale By Inventor and any related entities over the past 5 years is approximately 125,000; from that total, approximately 60,000 submitted ideas for review with about 12,000 offered contracts for research services; resulting in 3,974 contracting for professional research services. Following research, 2,162 received positive professional opinions of patentability and feasibility and were proffered development agreements. 1,127 inventors contracted for some combination of our patent, engineering and marketing services.

Of the total clients contracting for our services, 53 received licensing agreements and 27 have reported a net financial profit while hundreds of cases still remain active. Licensing is just one option that an inventor can pursue to commercialize their invention and was not pursued by clients who only contracted for legal, engineering or sales representation services. An additional 182 inventions have reported commercial success meaning that they either have been or are currently available for sale. Since these clients have no obligation to report their specific financial records to us, we are not aware of how many of these have made more than they spent on their invention.

DISCLAIMER: Past performance of professional services can provide no guarantee of future profits or that anyone will agree to purchase, license, produce or distribute any invention idea. Bringing an invention from an idea to marketed product is a high risk venture.

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