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Our goal is to help inventors

If you search the web, you will that there is there is an entire industry of “service providers” who offer their services to inventors. You will find a diversity of such services: patenting, marketing, prototype building, manufacturing – as well a diversity of products, books, do-it-yourself kits, and more.

It is easy to be confused by the contradictory advice given by many of these service providers. Especially among those who are attempting to sell you their product or service, you will find many biased opinions. It is only natural that people in business providing their own service will try to convince inventors that the inventor’s money is best spent on their service.

Unfortunately, many service providers take the unfortunate step of “bashing” other service providers in the misguided belief that it will bring them more business. Their individual agendas slant the information they provide to inventors. For example, many patent attorneys and patent agents call anyone who promotes inventions a “fraud” – because they are in direct competition for clients.

People who market products, and who sell books about ‘how to market an invention using little or no money’ try to convince inventors that they don’t need a patent. Many patent attorneys will subtlely point out the lower qualifications required to become a patent agent, and leave the inventor with the impression that they will receive lesser representation, and a poorly written patent application unless they use a patent attorney. Many patent agents will try to convince you that when you hire a patent attorney you are undoubtedly overpaying - just because the patent attorney has a law degree. Thus, they claim that their fees are reasonable since they provide the same representation at a lower cost.

The failing of these providers is their own insecurity. If they believe in the service they are providing, they would recognize that their customers could make an informed choice whether to use their services – without slanted information. In the end, none of them are “right”, and none are particularly helpful to the inventor who is simply trying to be diligent and careful in deciding how to proceed.
Our goal is to help inventors make an informed choice by showing them the full spectrum of available resources. Our suggestion is to evaluate them all carefully, and then decide in which your money and effort is best spent.