Scooby96

Seeking a company that will help me get it to the market place?

wwp8

what is it?

pslewis

Pop the plans up here and I'll give you my professional opinion

Pete

Kevin Groat

And which professional capacity would that be then Pete

ajm

Have you tried to get it patented yet?

Nev

Have you applied for a patent yet? Personally wouldn't trust anyone until you know you own the intellectual property.

BOB.T

I'll take a look over the plans too, cross the Ts and dot the Is etc

imlach

If you've patented it already (if not, you should), you can discuss it with anyone. Just make sure you get them to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) as well before telling them too much. That way, you are protected legally too from them telling anyone else about it.

Bubba po

It's a Pensioner's Dild0 with the opening times of the Post Office embossed on it for extra pleasure.

Harry_Boy

With regard to development, manufacturing or publicity?

imlach

Have you got a prototype? Does it work?

Vegescoob

Seriously, you are now entering a minefield. I'm not nowadays up on all this but iirc first step might be to contact a Patent Agent. They will help you determine if your invention is original and then obtain protection via a patent. This will be expensive especially if you want worldwide protection.
Trying to get financial help is very hard. Look at James Dyson and others.
Search government websites esp. DTI and contact your local Chamber of Commerce.
There is lots of info out there but companies and money to develop products can be hard to locate.
Your really hard work starts now!
Good luck.

pslewis

I've forgotten more things that I have designed and invented than you will ever know!! Thats all

Seriously, if you want my advice .... pm me

Pete

That Pensioners D1ldo sounds interesting Bubba - please send me a sample

Bubba po

Will do.... It's doing the rounds at the "Happy Pastures" retirement home at present- getting passed from room to room, standing in a jug of savlon. I think what's taking so long is that the old dears are doing brass-rubbings of the opening times.

wwp8

its an automatic forum software that whenever they see pslewis' name as the topic starter it automatically sends it to the muppet threads

could well pocket you in the mi££ions

what would scooby do

just waiting for the "shipman" edition that includes a solution of high-dose morphine

chrome

ask AdamM on 22b as IIRC he is a patent lawyer
he might be able to advise impartially..

MJW

Put dated plans and reports, etc. in an envelope and send it registered post to yourself. When it arrives stash it in a safe place, then open it when the inevitible intellectual property rights court case comes about !

gravelexpress

Damn if only i could remember - they had a load of ads on the discovery channel..... the ad was in the form of a quiz and then gave you a number for an Inventors helpline

Harry_Boy

Yup - those ads ran on Channel 5 a couple of years ago....

Gutmann pug

Even if you do get a patent and someone copies it, it doesnt mean you win in court. If the item is deemed as being ''obvious'' (ie anyone could have thought of it and not inovative enough) then you dont win. Cost my company a few quid and more a couple of years ago to find that out the hard way.

Gary

Karl 227

Nice company Gary

Gutmann pug

Havent seen that one in a while

Scooby96

Thanks for the replies peeps, will try a patent agent first.

Jap2Scrap

Scooby96

Try a university, mine would do , often they'd undertake work and development for a share in the patent. Seriously could save you a lot of expense if it's no good and if it's a winner a share of a lot is better than a share of **** all cos you can't afford to get it off the ground.