Publisher Description

With 50 years of experience as an inventor and close to 60 U.S. patents, Dr. James L. Cairns shares his vast know-how to help you come up with, develop and benefit from your ideas. This book takes you through the entire inventing process starting with a sound idea. It directs you through the uses of visualization and the importance of planning for all contingencies before ever investing capital. Cairns also demonstrates how to protect your creation by filing a patent. All the information about this multi-faceted process, from design patents to international patents, is laid out in an easy-to-follow format rigorously proofing by several lawyers.

Author Biography

Dr. James Cairns is Associate Professor of Society, Culture, and Environment at Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford, ON. He is active in Faculty for Palestine, and the co-author of two books (with Dr. Alan Sears): A Good Book, In Theory: Making Sense Through Inquiry, and The Democratic Imagination: Envisioning Popular Power in the 21st Century.

Long Description

With 50 years of experience as an inventor and close to 60 patents, Dr. Cairns shares his vast know-how to help you come up with, develop and benefit from your ideas.

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