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[Oliverclaycamp]

I have a really great idea for a device which will cash in and harness the penspinning craze.  If you haven't heard about it, this craze is sweeping across the world but so far it hasn't been capitalized well.  My idea fits exactly into the gaps of the thinking of several major companies.  I really believe I have what they've been looking for but they don't know it.  But my problem is that I am an English teacher in Central Asia, I don't have money for lawyers and such.  My first target is to sell in China, which is a place that doesn't care much about the patent anyway.  My idea is to sell the final product cheaply enough that it will undermine incentive to copy.
  But right now I don't know if I should push to make a prototype, or go some other directi

[Oliverclaycamp]

I have a really great idea for a device which will cash in and harness the penspinning craze.  If you haven't heard about it, this craze is sweeping across the world but so far it hasn't been capitalized well.  My idea fits exactly into the gaps of the thinking of several major companies.  I really believe I have what they've been looking for but they don't know it.  But my problem is that I am an English teacher in Central Asia, I don't have money for lawyers and such.  My first target is to sell in China, which is a place that doesn't care much about the patent anyway.  My idea is to sell the final product cheaply enough that it will undermine incentive to copy.
  But right now I don't know if I should push to make a prototype, or go in some other direction.  I know it hasn't been done before, and I believe the potential is really really hot but I am personally restricted by money and location.  What would you do if you had a great idea but were trapped in a place where no one has any idea what you were talking about and no money.  Any advice would be greatly appricated. 

[Oliverclaycamp]

thanks for the responses.  I think the penspinning craze is different from others because its been slowly growing for about 30 years.  Its still not big yet in America compared to Asia but it is growing.  The potential is enormous because it turns a pen or pencil into a student's favorite toy, and what other toy is a student forced to use for hours and hours everyday.  Yet how to capitalize?  Some companies are trying to sell more efficient spinning pens, but that market is already wide open and if it catches on then everyone will do it.  What is needed is a way that everytime a pen is spun then profit is made.  So I don't think the pen craze is going to go away, its only going to grow bigger, but how big and how quickly is the question. 
  So is there any practical advice?  If you were me what would you do?

Thanks

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[Isaac]

If you have a registered Patents, Trademark, Copyright or any other intellectual property which you own the rights to

Posting once in the "announcements" section would look a lot less like spam that does posting identical messages that do not address a single point under discussion.

[DogDayPM 9er9er9er]

If you have a registered Patents, Trademark, Copyright or any other intellectual property which you own the rights to

Posting once in the "announcements" section would look a lot less like spam that does posting identical messages that do not address a single point under discussion.

Well, praise Bog it looks like the mods have gotten rid of the first 20+ "unspam" posts; now we just need to get them working on this new batch...

[MYK]

If you have a registered Patents, Trademark, Copyright or any other intellectual property which you own the rights to

Posting once in the "announcements" section would look a lot less like spam that does posting identical messages that do not address a single point under discussion.

Well, praise Bog it looks like the mods have gotten rid of the first 20+ "unspam" posts; now we just need to get them working on this new batch...

Why, oh why, don't the forum admins just give every single real person here the power to nuke spam posts?  This forum gets more than any other forum I've seen.  Hell, any ten other forums.

Even requiring the "confirmation email" step that EVERY OTHER FORUM ON THE WEB (except 4chan, bless their heartless hearts) requires would get rid of 90% of the spammers.

[picotop1]

I had a new design idea on a household product.  I bought a book on how to patent my idea.  The forms I was required to complete were quite simple.  I filed my patent at the U.S. Patent Office, for a little over $200 dollars, and am waiting for a decision (which can take awhile):

 http://how-i-submitted-design-patent.blogspot.com/

[GRS Research]

"the penspinning craze" ??

I am really out of it...there's a league, competitions, tournaments, YouTube channels?

Now I'm curious...what could be this killer device?  A training device, leash, iPad app?

[ishanseo]

If you have a great, original idea that you believe people would pay for - a process, a product, an invention, a new use for an old device - then you need to take steps to protect it. The road from inspiration to patented invention is simple to explain, as in "Follow these steps right here," but that doesn't mean it is easy to do. The process can be time-consuming, costly and complex, so much so that most inventors wish someone would invent a new way of doing it. Until someone does, getting a patent is the way to go, and the only way that protects you

[farhan]

Hi All of u..
Thnx 4 info...