Fuel your "Eureka!" moments and become a successful inventor
Envision breakthrough new products using the proven methods and applied reasoning techniques of today's successful inventors. The Eureka Method: How to Think Like an Inventor lays out a systematic approach to innovation. Discover how to look at social developments and trends to find new ways of combining and improving existing technologies and systems. Plain-language examples of real-world patents, products, and inventors illuminate each point along the way.
Find out how to:
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Gain regular flashes of inspiration based on your understanding of the inventive process
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Improve and expand existing products in ways that fill social needs
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Fuse elements from different products into new and useful combinations
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Discover new opportunities by side-stepping rules and gaming the system
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"Futurize" your inventions and prevent them from becoming obsolete
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Identify emerging regulations and use them to your creative advantage
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Learn about comprehensive patent applications that protect your rights
Preface
Part I : Thinking Like an Inventor
Chapter 1 : The Three Questions That Should Follow a Eureka! Moment
Chapter 2 : Improvement Inventions
Chapter 3 : Developing an Inventive Mindset by Gaming the System
Chapter 4 : Increasing Dimensions to Spark Eureka! Moments
Chapter 5 : Combination Inventions
Part II : Seeking a Eureka! Moment
Chapter 6 : Law, Regulation, and Standards
Chapter 7 : Overcoming and Using Constraints
Chapter 8 : Be Driven by the Bottom Line
Part III : Appendixes
Appendix A : Patents : Mileposts of Invention
Appendix B : U.S : Patent 6004596 "Sealed Crustless Sandwich"
Appendix C : Inventors and Inventorship
Index
