-- Patent Searching Made Easy (4th Edition)

-- In the past, if you wanted to assess the novelty of an idea, you had to wade through the patent database at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) in Virginia--or hire a lawyer to do a patent search for $500 and up. The cost and inconvenience of these searches often meant that good ideas were left to rot on the vine.

-- With David Hitchcock's book, "Patent Searching Made Easy," you can learn to do patent searches yourself, on the Internet, at little or no cost. The 4th edition has been completely updated to include the latest changes at the PTO's patent searching website and the latest resources available at the Patent and Trademark Depository Library system. A chapter covering the European Patent Office has also been added.

-- A computer consultant, engineer and patent searching expert, Hitchcock gives you the vocabulary, instructions and strategies you need to search for a patent quickly and easily. He explains how the PTO classifies different types of inventions, so that you can assign your idea to the right class and compare it to related ideas.

-- Quotes: --
"With patent searches costing anywhere from $300 to $700, this book should be a valuable aid to most inventors."? -- Entrepreneur
-- "Today you can find many patent-searching resources online, and David Hitchcock's "Patent Searching Made Easy" details how to make the best use of them. Hitchcock covers search strategies and gives specific search tips." -- Computer Currents
-- "Following the instructions in this book...will help you reduce the risk inherent in developing your inventions." -- George H. Morgan, Patent Agent of Morgan and Associates
-- "This book thoroughly explains how to search for previously issued U.S. patents, using resources available on the Internet and at PTDLs.... The explanations are helpful for both computer expert and newbie."

-- Try to figure it out --> With 6-1/2 billion people in this world, you hardly amount to being a blip on the radar screen. You are a cork floating in the middle of the vast ocean. What do you do to be noticed, to make your mark and to say, "Look at me!" - "What do you see?" -- "Small Business Administration" -- a short list of topics that are among the most requested on the SBA site. --

Specifically, this story will look at the ways in which customers or users of a product may tweak or modify it, and then work with a company to put it into commercial production. In some cases, the companies actively solicit inventions or modifications to their products; in others, the inventions might come to them.

This covers a broad area, but if any inventors who have good stories and would be willing to share them are interested, they are invited to contact the reporter named below. Ideally they should be working with a company that would be bringing (or already have brought) something into commercial production. It also would work if the inventor produced it on his/her own, and then worked with a company who could bring it into wider distribution.

For more information, please contact Karen Kroll, Writer/Editor for American Way magazine. Phone: 952-470-8436
Email: kmkroll@aol.com
Website: www.karenkroll.com

-- "Design My Idea - Invention Design Services" --
-- "An example of a Non-Disclosure Document" --

-- "Inventors Showcase - Invention Showcase - New Inventions" --

-- "America is a country where the minute one says, "That's impossible," someone else walks in the door and announces, -
"We just did it." and "Our visionary would certainly have designed a country with the world's most honest legal and regulatory environment .. and laws that encourage innovation through patent protection." -- "This Is America's Moment" - Reader's Digest; February, 2000, pages 65-68

-- "Videos at Komando.com" --

s >>>---- --- --- Wait a minute! Aren't we missing
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In your quest for the hidden goldmine, did you ever wish for a genie to quietly speak into your ear -
-- "Were they thinking like you were thinking yesterday? - Like you will be thinking today - after I tell you some good news.."

-- At least it will still be your idea until you find out otherwise? ~ When you find out if and maybe whether somebody else has discovered this invention long before you thought of it. They may have invented it first, but now it has gone PUBLIC

-- My thinking for today is:
-- I'm not about to re-invent the wheel, I am about to ride my golden chariot by using the other guy's wheels. [Read carefully the above prior paragraph.]

-- Some of the bad advice that the past advisors gave you:
-- You are told to quit and stop searching if and when you find that "prior art.." i.e., that thing that looks like it's 'real close' to your invention. --

-- What? Stop! Are you kidding me?!!
-- It's the Best News I've Heard All Day. - Me, Myself, and I have possibly discovered a 'dead,' fully abandoned public disclosure of how to "design/make and produce" the "[My] greatest inventive product of this age." Eureka! --

-- "It's like exposed gold nuggets laying out there on the ground!! JUST YOURS FOR THE TAKING"

-- Let's say that you find out that the Patent Office has on file your exact same patented invention. Someone patented it ahead of you years before.
-- O.K. -- Don't stop now. Look at the date of the Patent. Note that date when it was patented, and then note the date when it expired and has become 'open and free to the public.' Wonderful!!

-- You, my friend, are the Public and it has gone open, exposed, Free to You.... You can take it for FREE!! You can make it and sell it and become possibly RICH with this openly disclosed, finely detailed, unclouded $$$$$ knowledge. Everything about it has been openly bared. And isn't 'that' what YOU wanted? You wanted a 'short-cut to wealth.'

-- You wanted someone to map it out for you. To hand you the weigh-bill to the goldmine. You wanted the secret passage to becoming RICH.

-- Make your way to YOUR Goldmine. Just get in there and dig-dig. Dig to hit pay dirt. Uncover the glistening shiny metal or gemstone of quality.

-- What patent? The public that you are about to provide your product to doesn't give a damn about a patent. They want, they need, and they desire what you are handing them...the Invention. That product which fulfills their needs.

-- Let your competitors waste their time... They can't break your copied patent when you have copied it exactly. To be sure, check whether that utility patent also had a design patent attached. Also follow-up the line of any future improved patents based upon it. -- Sure, others can make it too, but you see to it that you stay ahead of them by investing your money for the production and marketing.

-- You even know that even if you can't protect your invention with your own patent, you can use your Trademark to excite the consumer.

-- Build your good name in the eyes of the public. -- Turn some other guy's lemon [failed patent] into your own lemonade.

-- It's YOU, the man or woman that produces and creates the results, that counts. -- Robert Scheinkman

-- "Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth

http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/

--> Tomorrow is like yesterday: - Backroom Deals, Secret Agendas, Hidden Cover-ups, National Security. A disaster taking control of your life. - A shift has been made. - Just a chance. - Re-affirm your own convictions.

--> "The human brain consists of more than 100 billion neurons (nerve cells) through which the brain's commands are sent in the form of electric pulses. These pulses travel at more than 400 km/h (250 mph), creating enough electricity to power a lightbulb. The brain consumes more energy than any other organ, burning up a whopping one-fifth of the food we take in."
-- "The average human brain consumes just 12 watts of power - one-tenth of what it take to burn an ordinary light bulb."

-- U didn't learn this in English Class!!!!!

-- Don't skip over this just because it looks weird. Believe it or not, you can  read it.

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod acutlaly uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg. .The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit  pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig, huh?

--> "On average, women speak 7000 words per day - men manage just over 2000."

-- Thought of the Day --
-- "There are no secrets to success: don't waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence." -- WAL*MART --

Boudreaux left the bayou and moved to Arkansas where he bought him a donkey from an old farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next day. The next day, the farmer drove up and said "I'm sorry, but I have some bad news. The donkey died last night."

"Well, den" said Boudreaux, "jus' give my money back, yeah."

"I can't do that Sir, I went and spent it already."

"OK, den. Jus' unload dat donkey."

"What are you gonna do with him"

"I'm gon-to raffle him off."

"You can't raffle a dead donkey, you dumb Cajun!"

"Well dats where you wrong!! You wait you an' you learn how smart we Cajuns are!"

A month later the farmer ran into the Cajun and asked, "What happened with that dead donkey?"

"I raffled dat donkey off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars apiece and made $998."

"Didn't anyone complain?"