Patents By Don Debelak

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...]

Ten Points in a Preliminary Invention Evaluation Here are 10 points to use to evaluate whether or not your idea is worth pursuing. This evaluation helps you decide if your product is worth developing further.  This helps you decide if you should invest in a patent and prototype and spend … [Read more...]

Don Debelak offers affordable patents www.patentsbyDonDebelak.com Inventors succeed all the time, but many more inventors fail, many with excellent ideas that could be successful.  So knowing the mistakes inventors commonly make can help you avoid those mistakes, and help you avoid turning … [Read more...]

Don Debelak offers affordable patents. http://www.patentsbydondebelak.com Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) can be a useful tool for inventors to move conversations along towards an agreement with a manufacturer, marketer or distributor. When a potential partner expresses interest in moving … [Read more...]

First, you notice I didn’t say PCT patent. A PCT application is like provisional patent in that it can give you up to 30 months to file for a utility patent. The PCT application has recently become more attractive as 18 countries in Europe have a unified patent now which means when you apply for … [Read more...]

Beyond the Big Trade Shows Many inventors, especially ones short of money can benefit by starting their marketing efforts at smaller regional, or highly specific trade shows and conferences. Smaller shows are much lower in cost, and allow you to target customers who particularly benefit from your … [Read more...]

Using Other People's Money Many people struggle raising money to introducing their product. But there are ways to get around that problem by using a shoestring outsourcing approach I call OPM (Other People’s Money) deal making—or, if you prefer, the OPM entrepreneurial approach—because not only … [Read more...]

There Are 800 3D Printers in Libraries Worldwide (and There Could Be a Lot More) {Don Debelak's new book, Turning Your Invention into Cash is now available on Amazon for $3.49. Go to Amazon.com and enter inventions Don Debelak to purchase. From the author of Entrepreneur Magazine's … [Read more...]

Don Debelak offers afordable patents www.patentsbydondebelak.com  Find Your Million Dollar Idea Where is the next million-dollar idea hiding, just waiting to be discovered? In many cases, it could be right under your nose–at your place of work, or perhaps as part of your favorite hobby. … [Read more...]

Don Debelak offers affordable patents www.patentsbydondebelak.com Non-US Citizen Patents in the United States Many of the USPTO patent applications I do are for people living outside of the US.  Why do people make that choice? Primarily because the US maybe the largest market for their … [Read more...]