Chapter 13: Developing Your Idea

In Chapter 1, we talked about why you want a patent, and how it pays to take a closer look at your own reasons before jumping in. In this chapter, we are going to talk about what exactly you want to patent, manufacture, and market, and how it pays to take a closer look at that before jumping in too far.

Often, the idea for a new product strikes like lightning. You are doing something, perhaps something you do every day, and you realize:

If I just had this thing, it would be so much better!

And suddenly, you came up with an idea for this thing that would make it so much better! Immediately you wondered—does something like this exist? If it doesn’t exist, then why didn’t anyone think of it?

So you decide: This is it! Let’s patent it, make it, and sell it…

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