Invention services
Invention development services
One of the first things you’ll discover as an inventor is that you’re on your own. Most forms of business support don’t apply to individuals with pre-business invention ideas, and it’s difficult to know who else to trust or believe.
Our services are designed to help inventors help themselves. We provide specialist advice and support that is rarely found elsewhere. And importantly, the inventor stays in control. We’re here to help, not take over.
Invention evaluation
‘One of the most important things for an inventor to know is when he’s wasting his time.’
….Dave Melton, inventor of Firetrace fire protection products.
Not all inventions succeed, so your first priority must be to research market and intellectual property potential. We can do the research for you, based on our experience of thousands of invention evaluations over many years. If the outlook isn’t good, we’ll say so and give you the evidence. Or if it might be improved with some changes, we’ll give you our thinking on that too.
We provide two levels of fixed-price service, depending on how much information you need and how much you want to pay.
Research & Report
Due diligence research that includes a patent search and looks mainly at originality, market potential, technical and design feasibility and IP potential. Also includes strategic IP advice to help you plan appropriate and cost-effective IP protection.
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Invention Advice Email
If your invention idea is still at ‘back of an envelope’ stage, an informal opinion from experienced advisers may be all you need. There’s less searching than with Research & Report, but for that reason we can advise you more quickly – normally within 10 days.
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Other services
The cost of our other services varies according to what’s needed, so call or email us to discuss your possible requirements.
For example, we can provide:
Invention project planning and management
If your idea has potential, what do you do next? We can help you locate the resources you need and even manage parts of your project for you.
Business planning
A business plan will be essential if you want investment or business partners. We can create or improve your business plan, which for an invention project must meet very high due diligence standards. (The way the business world sees it, invention + inventor = well above average risk.)
Funding assistance
We can help you find development or start-up funding, but this is rarely easy so in many cases a good business or project plan will be a minimum requirement.
PR and marketing
Publicising an invention can be a good and inexpensive way of attracting investor and business interest – if the message and its timing, placing and follow-up strategy are right. We can help you plan and manage it all.
Invention services for business
We can be the interface between inventors and companies or innovation support organisations that lack resources to deal with inventors. See Consultancy.
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