Profit From Your Idea

How to Make Smart Licensing Deals

License your invention without the risk -- protect your idea

You’ve got a great idea and are ready to strike it rich. But finding a company you can trust, hashing out a fair licensing deal, then watching your idea hit the marketplace—well, you’ll need help.

Turn to Profit From Your Idea. It will help you negotiate and draft a licensing agreement that will protect your interests. In the end, you’ll know all about:

• the licensing process

• your intellectual property rights

• ownership issues for inventor-employees

• working with licensing agents

• protecting confidential information

• finding potential licensees

• licensing overseas

• showing your invention safely

• negotiating your agreement

• reviewing changes to an agreement

Disclosing your invention requires a balancing act: Presenting the best aspects of your invention while protecting the confidential aspects of your work. Use Profit From Your Idea to help you effectively maintain the necessary balance and minimize the risks of disclosure. The fully updated edition comes complete with the current licensing law and patent rules, as well as includes brand new FAQs, many from the author's popular blog, Dear Rich: Nolo's Patent, Copyright & Trademark Blog.