Bird, Pamela Riddle. <br/><br/>
Inventing for dummies / 
by Pamela Riddle Bird ; foreword by Forrest M. Bird. 
 - Hoboken, NJ :  Wiley Pub.,  c2004. 
 - xx, 358 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - For dummies .
 - For dummies. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-342) and index. 
<br/><br/>Part I: Making your idea yours -- The innovation process -- Patent basics -- Conducting a patent search -- Applying for and receiving your patent -- Maintaining and defending your patent -- Part II: Securing other intellectual property -- Trademarks and trade secrets -- Stopping copycats with a copyright -- Mum's the word: keeping it confidential -- Part III: Developing your idea -- Prototyping: making it work -- Hiring helpers and working with work-for-hire agreements -- Evaluating your invention's potential -- Looking at the production process -- Part IV: Commercializing your invention -- Developing a business plan -- Finding Funding -- Keeping control with your own business -- Partnering and manufacturing arrangements -- Preparing to take your invention to market -- Marketing your product -- Advertising your product -- Licensing your product -- Negotiating a license -- Part V: The part of yens -- Ten key contacts -- Ten inventions (and inventors) that changed the world -- Ten inventors to emulate. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0764542311 (pbk.) 9780764542312 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004102440 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Inventions--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>T339  / B618i 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>608