by Stephen Key | Sep 25, 2020 | How to Become Successful
Post Views: 430 Success means different things to different people. For me, it means being in control of my own destiny, being financially secure, and helping others achieve their goals. How do you achieve the success that you desire? Is there a secret recipe? Is...
by Stephen Key | Sep 23, 2020 | Truthtelling
Post Views: 442 Getting a patent issued typically costs at least $10,000 and can easily cost upwards of $20,000. Most inventors who patent their inventions hope to get their money back after their invention begins selling in the marketplace. In reality, it rarely...
by Stephen Key | Sep 22, 2020 | Truthtelling
Post Views: 517 I used to believe that patenting an invention meant no one could steal it from me. This was when I was new to the intellectual property game, and naïve. Soon enough, I discovered that’s not the way patents work. It was 2003, and spring in San...
by Stephen Key | Sep 22, 2020 | Intellectual Property and IP Strategy
Post Views: 450 Okay, maybe fighting is the wrong word. But if you want to become a professional inventor, you need to plan ahead so people end up paying you. Once, when speaking to a group of startups in Australia, someone asked, “How do you know so much about...
by Stephen Key | Sep 22, 2020 | Inventing 101
Post Views: 412 What would the world look like if there was more diversity and inclusion in inventing? Over the past few years, academic research has identified significant disparities in the rate at which people obtain patents. Women (especially African American and...
