Transcript How to Be an Inventor - Innovation in Practice

How to Be
an
Inventor
Week 3
Instructor: Drew Boyd
What does it take to be an
Inventor?
• Smart? Creative?
What does it take to be an
Inventor?
• Smart? Creative? No!!!
What does it take to be an
Inventor?
• Smart? Creative? No!!!
• You need to be:
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Observant
Curious
Disciplined
Persistent
Question asker
See possibilities
Agenda
• Review
– Second Tool: Replacement
– Lab Books
• Third Tool: Multiplication
• Introduction to PATENTS
How Do People Invent Things?
• Find a Solution…
How Do People Invent Things?
• Find a Solution…
then…..
How Do People Invent Things?
• Find a Solution…
then…..
• Find a Problem
Don’t Invent Things Like
This!
Review Lab Books
• Who has an idea or an
invention from their Lab Book
that they want to share?
Second Tool: Replacement
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Find a product and list all of its parts
2. Take a part away
3. REPLACE the part with something else
4. Imagine your “Virtual Product”
5. Ask, “Who would use this?”
Take away the screen…
1. Screen
2. Remote
Control
3. Volume
4. Channel
5. Speaker
6. Box
7. Plug
And REPLACE it with what?
• Computer screen
• Projector
• Head mounted
Examples
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Stapler
Ice Skate
Coke Can
Phone Cradle
“Tape-ler”
Roller Blade
Twist Top Can
Belt Phone
Third Tool: Multiplication
1.
Find a product and list all of its parts
2. Multiply, or create a copy of one of
the parts
3. Change the multiplied component in
some way
4. Imagine your “Virtual Product”
5. Ask, “Who would use this?”
Example: Multiply a Part
“Picture-in-Picture” TV
Patents
• A patent is a property right
• Granted by the Government
• Excludes others from making, using,
offering for sale, or selling the
invention
• How? Apply to the U.S. Trademark
and Patent Office (USTPO)
Patent Examples
Patent Examples
Patent Examples
Patent Examples
Next Week
• Review all the tools so far
• Review your LAB BOOKS
– Invent something!!
• Learn a new tool
• Practice!