The coronavirus has affected the world in a way in which most of us have never seen. Years ago, my father told me the story of how he was at high school football practice when it was announced over the PA speaker that President John F. Kennedy had been shot and...
"Ryan, I can't wait to tell you about the product I want to license!" my new inventRight student proclaimed to me in an email prior to our first meeting. "Nothing like it exists!" he went on to explain. The following day, I took the student's call. He explained the...
When a new student joins inventRight, he or she is paired up with a personal coach who will hold their hand through our 6-month "boot camp" journey. The end goal, of course, is to obtain a licensing agreement for their product and to leave us with the knowledge and...
Yesterday while fishing, I realized that inventing products for different industries is a lot like fishing. I grew up fishing and I've always enjoyed watching a largemouth bass jump out of the water after my popper. Timing is everything and you have to hook 'em at...
Every entrepreneur expects obstacles along his or her journey. Expecting them and successfully overcoming them, however, are two very different things. I recently had the pleasure of coaching inventRight students and cousins, TJay Kleeberger and Billy Maroo, who know...
One of the single most exciting things an inventor can hear along his or her inventing journey is without a doubt, "Can you send me a prototype?" For many, this is the first time their idea has received any level of validation. To a novice inventor, the request to...
There are many important things that go on a sell sheet, and many things that should not go on it. While some of those things are easy to weed out (such as long paragraphs about your product), others are a bit more difficult to decipher if you need it. Do you...
Watch the video to this article at the bottom of the post. Hi, Stephen Key here. In this article, I'm going to discuss my book, One Simple Idea, and why everyone who has ideas needs to read it. Back in the 2000s, I received a call from a vice-president in the San...
Watch the video to this article at the bottom of the post. Hello, and welcome to another inventRight blog article. My name is Andrew Krauss. I'm one of the cofounders here at inventRight. The topic for this article is inventor help for patents, design, and licensing....
Watch the video to this article at the bottom of the post. Hello inventors. It’s Stephen Key again. In this article, I will explain what you need to license a big idea. Now, if you've been following inventRight on YouTube or social media for any length of time, you...
Watch the video to this article at the bottom of the post. The topic of this article is how to patent an invention idea. I need to make it clear from the very beginning that I'm not a patent attorney and I'm not giving legal advice. So, there you go; there's my...
Watch the video to this article at the bottom of the post. What happens next if you have an idea or you have an invention? What do you do? My name is Stephen Key, and I'm going to take you through some of the steps. This could get fairly long, but I'll keep it fairly...