Patents By Don Debelak

Get Help and Get an Expedited Patent Are You Focused on the Right Things? For the most part, I feel inventors floundered around a great deal trying to launch their product. But all an inventor needs to do to succeed is convince one person with the right connections that they have a great idea. … [Read more...]

The following is Google AI's answer to this question No, cheap provisional patents are generally a poor investment because a poorly prepared or "cheap" provisional application offers no real protection and can be detrimental to your patent rights, potentially leading to loss of patentability … [Read more...]

Once inventors have a product ready to sell, they need to decide how to market the product. They might choose to sell the product themselves, which generates the most profit per sale, but sales might get off to a slow start or never get started at all. Another option is to land a marketing … [Read more...]

Inventor’s success depends on more than how great your product is.  Another factor, and maybe the most important one, is how easy it will be to sell your invention. This applies to inventors who are both planning on selling the product themselves, and inventors who are trying t license their … [Read more...]

The patent office has recently been working to speed up the patent examination process for all patents, but still it is not uncommon to get a first office action, which is the patent office’s response to your patent application, two years after an application is submitted. But the patent office does … [Read more...]

In the last two years I’ve been contacted by at least 15 inventors who have a great idea but need an investor. Most experienced investor would consider those inventors naïve, as it is not often an inventor gets one big investors.  But there are opportunities for inventors to get investors that … [Read more...]

Serial Inventors: What Do They Know that You Don’tMany inventors dream about being a serial inventor -- selling one successful idea after another. It sounds like a pipedream to most inventors just hoping to get one idea out. But serial inventors do exist and the reasons they succeed can point the … [Read more...]

Quick Strike Marketing Tactics for Inventors 1: Identify the Right Target Market Identifying the right target market can often be the difference between success and failure for new products. The right market will be more willing to accept, and ready to pay more for, the right product, and the … [Read more...]

All inventions start with an inspiration about something that needs great improvement, or just  someone coming up what they think people would like.  The Java Jacket, that short two or three inch corrugated piece that keeps the coffee cup from being too hot is an example of a problem that … [Read more...]

Getting Help – But Keeping Control Don Debelak offers affordable Patents www.patentsbydondebelak.com Getting a new product on the market requires many skills and inventors often benefit from teaming up with someone with complementary skills to launch their invention.  I personally feel … [Read more...]