INVENTIONS

Invention Gear is dedicated to informing inventors, to help them navigate through the often frustrating challenges associated with inventing, prototyping, patenting, marketing and licensing their invention.

First Step: Inventing Your Invention

The first point inventors should consider when inventing is to seek to develop an invention that is appealing to the marketplace.

That is, if your invention cannot sell due to the invention's lack of appeal, market demand, or inferiority compared to other inventions, your invention is doomed from the start.

As a result, a professional inventor does not simply seek to invent an invention to have a new product, but rather seeks to invent an invention for a specific need.

Every invention should fulfill a need that is desirable.  Often that means that the invention solves a common problem that consumers want.

Knowing what consumers want in an invention is not always easy to ascertain, since even companies involved in an industry cannot forecast with complete certainty what consumers will want in an invention in the future.

Consequently, inventors need to watch a specific market closely and determine what problems need to be solved and seek to develop features and benefits that consumers want in an invention.

Invention Questions Inventors Should Ask

Inventors should ask the following questions regarding their invention:

• What features do consumers want in an invention?

• Is my invention timely or will the invention be considered outdated?

• Who are the likely people who will buy my invention and is the invention appealing to them

Main Point About Your Invention

Invent your invention with the goal of it reaching the marketplace to fulfill a need.  If nobody wants your invention, your invention is worthless.