Does Your Idea Have a Chance?

Many inventors often hesitate entering into the expensive invention market because they are worried that their product is already out on the market or that there may be obstacles that they will run into. With a little effort on your part, you can investigate on a preliminary basis whether or not your product will succeed, and while it is not a one night project you should be able to complete the project in 30 days. I think every inventor should do this to ascertain whether or not the product has a chance at success before spending a lot of money.

Start with a search at Google Patents

Goggle Patents has a feature called prior art searching. Typically, patents are granted only if the invention is new and not obvious, which means in patent language, that there isn't prior art, which simply means the product hasn't been publicly disclosed previously either in a patent, by being sold, or in some other fashion. The Prior Art Finder makes it easy to search multiple sources simultaneously for prior art. You can experiment with it by clicking on the "Find Prior Art" button from a patent's main page, or on the "Related" link in patent search results.

The Prior Art Finder identifies key phrases from EPO (European Patent Office) and post-1976 US patent documents, combines them into a search query, and displays the results from Google Patents, Google Scholar, Google Books, and the rest of the web.

Is Your Product Ready to Introduce?

When you start out with an idea you have a vision of what the product will be like. After working on the idea for a while, the product starts taking shape and you have something people can react to that will indicate how the product will sell. You are entering a phase where you may be spending a lot of money, and may need to get investment partners. So you need to take a deep breath and reevaluate where you stand. Inventors tend to move forward with lots of enthusiasm at this point. But that can be a big mistake as now is your last stopping point before a major investment.

This article will have a summary of the five points, the next five articles will cover each of the five points in more depth.

1. How effective are your patent claims? Many, many times inventor's patent claims are scaled back by the patent office and they end up not being significant. The way to judge a patent claim is how many qualifiers or steps there are. When the first claim (the most important claim) has four or five points, a competitor only needs to only be different in only point to not violate the patent.
2. Does the product have good value when compared to competitive products? People are solving the problem your product addresses in some other way. If your product costs the same as other solutions, but does a much better job, then you are providing value. If it costs less, that is even better. 

Hiring Respected Long Distance Movers

When someone is planning a long distance move, there are a lot of things that they need to think about. It can be very costly deciding whether or not to keep everything or to purchase new when they arrive at their destination. There will always be some things that need to be taken into consideration.

When someone chooses to move from one place to another, they do not want their items put on one truck at their home and then moved to another truck down the road or several times throughout the commute. This is how things get lost. They want the same truck to be delivering it that picked it up.

They can pack up the home in boxes as well. Some people will prefer to pack up their own belongings because they do not like people searching through their things. A respected moving company is going to have experience in packaging the fragile items though.

They will make sure that the items are safe and will be delivered unharmed in any way. The customers are going to be able to feel comfortable with the moving company that they hire too. They want someone who is going to be delivering their stuff on time as well. Many companies will know when they can arrive at the location.

While accidents can happen anywhere and to anyone, it is important to make sure that the items will be insured if something does happen. Nobody wants to think about that especially if they are hauling a treasured piece that was passed down for several generations. Sometimes, it is not the monetary value of an item that people want because it may have other meaning to them.

Moving companies want the items to arrive in the same condition that they picked them up in. They may have different kinds of trucks and equipment to help them in this process too. Every customer is going to have different products with different values that need to be moved long distances when they are moving.