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INVENTORS AND THEIR INVENTIONS

Inventors must guard their inventions from risky, invention marketing firms possibly like those you see advertising to inventors on TV. Unscrupulous invention markeng firms may actually steal ideas from inventors or just take the inventor's money without really promoting the inventor's inventions! Many marketable products may have been lost to fraudulent invention marketing firms.

"Ripping-off" inventors is an American tradition! Your ONLY security is NEVER talk about a patent idea until it is issued a patent by the U.S. Patent Office. If you have a good product idea, get it patented then work diligently to make all the necessary business connections to try and sell it. Remember, not all inventions make money.

Ideas are a dime a dozen and talk is cheap but manufacturing a prototype of an invention can get expensive. Most ideas NEVER get patented. Most patented inventions NEVER go to market and most of the ones that do make it NEVER sell!

Less than 2% of all patented products are licensed to companies that manufacture and market newly invented products because too often the products cannot survive the development, technical and commercial stages as well as the tests required to become a successful product!

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: FT. LAUDERDALE SUN SENTINEL NEWSPAPER 8/7/95

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