Merry Christmas to all. Pls, try to help with these guys. TIA

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Six projects that fulifill certain specific guidelines of certain specific industries. They should indeed have the opportunity they seem to have missed. Thanks in advance!

Good Morning. Again, hoping for referrals to possible licensees. Thanks!!!

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Good morning everyone. It is all about exposure.

Have a nice Sunday.

Sweet! Got a cool endorsement!

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Another day. Morning everyone! These have been sone of my recent efforts that I need help with. Well, I already mentioned that. Thanks in advance.

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Just 852 views? I’ll think of something :o)

I really hope for any referrals for my projects listed below. So, I bring this back to the surface. Beyond the mere conception of the ideas there was a lot of effort and a lot of time time in research and preparation of the materials. A lot. No shortcuts.

I honestly believe they deserve an opportunity. I believe I have to try whatever I can. And that is basically to look for help. I can’t do much marketing. And I don’t enjoy the process much. I rather get into creative challenging stuff.

Any agents out there?

Thanks again.

Luis

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Maybe somebody can help with Nascarito. It’s gonna be tough, because there seems to be only one prospect for this. F1 cars do not have any similarity with sneakers.

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Hello again, fellow members.

I hope I can get some suggestions regarding companies that may consider the projects below.

1) Bendroads™ is a toy system that I certainly believe promotes creativity, motor skills, eye-hand coordination, while providing fun, entertainment and a beautiful opportunity for parent-child bonding.

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2) AlphaPlus™ is a USB connected product that can be sold at trendy Boutique stores. I personally want one. Right now. I have actually developed it even further, but the enthusiasm to produce additional materials has indeed been depleted.

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3) SuaveShade™ is an accessory to complement electronic devices. Well, I must also say I personally want one. Right now.

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4) PenaltyGrid™ is a contraption to help optimize Soccer skills.

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Thanks in advance for any suggestions. This is indeed a difficult thing that we do, or try to do.

I’ll remove it again tomorrow. So…

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It was just a breeze taking some dimensions all by myself with Zeroin™. I just loved it!

What could conceivably be the additional cost per unit? A couple of cents? Could that be perhaps dwarfed by a $2 premium retail price? Or never mind the premium… Compete at the same price and own a larger share of the market? Interesting dilemma…

Pretty cool, in my definitely biased opinion. Pretty cool.

I like it. Where can I get it?*

*In the interest of full disclosure it must be stated that Joaco & Luis are the same guy :o)

Hello again.

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It is really cool to see that ‘themaximum2001’ registered on youtube right after the

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video was published, just to post a comment.

Come on, ‘themaximum2001’ don’t be shy. Come and say hello…

Good Morning, All!

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Little video…

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More feedback, please?

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Please, stay tuned…

Badabing Bada… BUMP!

bumpity bump…

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Thanks all. Keep ’em coming!

Using this as a general example,

My first thought is, I could not imagine someone else hasn’t thought of it and based on my experiences patent searching I would be surprised if there were not a number of fairly similar products which have already been invented. And I haven’t seen any of them on the market. Actions speak louder than words and consumers just haven’t shown much interest I assume. There is probably a reason / are reasons for that, similar to those touched on by Greg above (and which I can think of).

That’s not to say there would be no potential here; even if most consumers only feel really slightly inconvenienced by tape measures, sometimes such market opportunities can be most attractive as other mistakenly overlook them as irrelevant. But it speaks to challenges presented. Attracting the mass market, with any similar product would probably be quite challenging; if a consumer only viewed conventional tape measures as a slight inconvenience, then any slight inconvenience associated with using your product can be sufficient to single-handedly render your invention as a useless waste of money to that consumer. And you cannot count on casual consumer feedback to spot such slight inconveniences, and you have little room for error if your product doesn’t end up working as intended. Likewise, if you put forth the time, effort, and what not to ensure no such inconveniences, perhaps your costs dictate a higher price than the market may be willing to pay.

If I didn’t already think so before viewing your illustration re: how your invention is compatible with Nuedge, I would say the approach may be wrong here. I don’t know much about Nuedge, but the process of applying tape when needed yells out lazy to me; even if it might not be so inconvenient, it looks inconvenient and lazy and reminiscent of a desire to keep costs down without regard to implications. If you are simply skimping on costs here, my guess is you end up with a product that most people don’t need or have sufficient use for, and even those niche markets which could have sufficient use for the product….those markets could buy the product if there were no better alternatives per se, but a.) you probably won’t meet their needs well enough to justify the premium you might need to charge in order to profit from a smaller customer base, b.) they won’t necessarily form a high opinion of your brand, and c.) it’s possibly a matter of time before someone else introduces a better product to suit their needs.

Regarding the presentation, aside from general concerns regarding efficiency, if I am busy and looking over a number of submissions, I want an illustration, or at least a hint, regarding what your product does on the first page. And I hate that “This project may cooperate with co-submission ‘Nuedge’ for even more advantages” is repeated twice before you even touch on the product. I am not the least bit concerned regarding “even more advantages,” and I will be skeptical of such a claim, until I have come to believe that advantages that already exist.

And, please, let us not forget about this, the original ’How’bout This?’

Thanks!

Let us join the ‘bumping’ trend :o)

My mistake. It was actually a lay-out mistake. Convex it is. I soitanly know conacve and convex.

So, How’bout this?

Kelce was right about convex, and outside curve. Concave is an inside curve. The printing on the concave, or inside curve, is less susceptable to wearing the marks off. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Convex

Yes, Greg, It should certainly all be easier!

I need to correct myself: No law whatsoever allows the diversion of funds. The diversion of funds, in fact, is unconstitutional. But that is another topic.

I would speculate that Luis, like myself when I posted one I did a month ago, is more concerned with generating input into the process/his submission that is instructional for himself and anyone else who cares to dip an ear into the thread than in one particular idea going anywhere. It is a long game prolific inventing strategy I think.

The new law (US relevant only) specifically calls out enabling publication as prior art that does not impede the inventor who published. That prior art exception is good for 12 months, similar but worded different than the current state. In either case I don’t read that the US first inventor to file publication exception does anything to protect you internationally. Strictly in the US you could almost say it is first inventor to publish, because your publication is prior art excluding someone else from patenting the invention. But all laynman interpretation.

I would still advocate a conservative approach. I can file patent under the World IPO rules in any country & claim priority. Its a minefield so be careful out there! You are courting companies like Stanley, Irwin, Snap On who want products they can market internationally & don’t want the hassle of dealing with some cheap knock off using a dodgy patent to gaurantee their Ip rights. Remember an invention is only worth what you are willing to pay to protect it. I hold some patents in Africa, Europe, New Zealand, Australia. It keeps me poor!

Relief!

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Love your avatar, Mogie.

Thanks for the comments. I don’ know what to say. Don’t know anything about the new law, except that it still allows the diversion of funds.

Thanks, Ralf.

I didn’t read the new patent law but I can only hope first to file means you can disclose all you want because nothing counts before someone files. But I doubt the law would make that much sense.

Luis, I would be concerned about disclosure. The idea is now in the public domain so you cannot claim any IP rights if you are thinking of commercialising it. It has merit though.

Thanks, fellows. Much appreciated. Keep ’em coming.

How’bout This™ may become a series :o)

Kelce,
The magnets are a great idea but has already been done. I use a tape measure frequently for determining the distance between two metal fence posts for a gate measurement. The manufacturer has attached two small round magnets to the flat hook end and I have been surprised at the strength of those to hold the end to a post at distances over twenty feet while extended along the ground and up to ten feet while being held off the ground.
At any rate the idea is sound.

I like how you’ve approached the document which illustrates the various uses and conceptual advantages of the device. I found the big callout to your other submission on each page distracting from the message in this one; making me think I can only partially understand this one sans that context.

As to the device itself, for me a tape measure is a multi-scenario general purpose measuring device. The most common uses I have are for measuring against walls and floors as well as task measures for cutting boards and similar. My biggest complaints are torsion, fixing against a flat surface, and snap-back. This embodiment feels appropriate for specific measuring scenarios (e.g. length of a piece of furniture) but of limited use in the ones I commonly encounter. And I don’t envision situations where I’d want the overhead of using tape to fix or stabilize it. Given snap-back, as a consumer, I would perceive the overlarge end on this as having even scarier prospects for personal injury whether true or not.

In the potential submissions I rejected down to the one I made:
One had an alternate spooling mechanism that significantly would prevent torsion and snap-back
Another had a toggle end to allow the end to position straight, up, or down as well as a rotating middle in the end with gel type pressure sensitive adhesive rubber (as Ralf alludes to)

I like it. If prior art is a problem, why not make the product an add on to existing measuring tapes and throw in an adhesive tape dispenser that clips on the measuring tape to make them one unit. What would be great is inventing something that sticks to anything without losing its stickiness or leaving behind a residue. That would make a great tape measure hook. Hmmm, I have an idea.

Kelce, there is no parade. Weather does not matter.

Greg, I am interested in objective, unbiased feedback, abstracted from any circumstances.

Kelce: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/concave

Thanks again,

Luis

I hate to rain on your parade, but …

1. Extended dimension hooks already exist for improving catch up, down and to the side. You can even buy an attachment plate into which your original hook fits a slot, so that you can have a larger hook than the one with which the tape measure originally came. I have some. I think they were about $1 in a bin at Home Depot, near the cash register, a few years ago.
2. You swapped the terms convex and concave in your flyer. You propose printing on the convex side. The concave side is the one that is already printed.
3. Printing measurement marks on both sides of a ruler is already known. Patent 6237243, filed in 1999 has printing on both sides, although one side is inches and the other is metric. The patent owner had to add a bunch of limitations in the claim to obtain a patent – more limitations than one would expect to see in a product on a store shelf. So it probably never covered a commercially successful product.

However … You might be onto something with the hook adapted to permit easy use of an adhesive tape. My hook extenders are circular, with teeth on the side that is supposed to catch an edge of the object being measured.

Maybe adding something to the hook or hook extender, to use a different force than mere friction of the hook edge. You proposed adhesive tape. But perhaps a permanently-attached magnet, might work. Rare earth magnets. like the type you can buy at Radio Shack, are small. I keep several in my garage for odd uses. In the past, I have used some of them to help hold my plate extender to metal surfaces, but that was a temporary configuration.

Maybe alternate shapes for the hook extender could be considered.

So, is this somthing you didn’t submit to Irwin or something you did but didn’t make it?

Are you interested in feedback on the idea itself or on your presentation of the idea or both?