Is your idea more than a concept?
What is your evidence that it can work?
Can you give a detailed description of the invention, including drawings
(if necessary) to show how it works?
Are your descriptions:
- thorough
enough to allow a person skilled in the invention's field of technology
to make and use the invention?
- able
to identify the invention's best mode of operation?
- able
to provide a basis for an explanation of the terminology in carefully
worded claims?
Is
your idea:
- novel?
not previously anticipated in the field or disclosed in a prior invention,
called the "prior art"
- useful?
if it is of some benefit qualitatively (some demonstrable utility)
- obvious?
would one skilled in the art consider the invention obvious, even
if the prior art did not actually anticipate it?
Has
the invention been described in a U.S. or foreign publication?
Has it been on sale or in public use in the U.S. for more than 12 months?
Is
it a process? A product?
Have you published your idea in a writing? Read by another? Presented
at a conference?
- If so, when?
Are there others who have worked with you on this idea? Inside/outside
the University?
Did you create it using university resources? With outside public or
private funding?
Are
there existing patents that are similar to yours that your idea is an
extension of?
Can you demonstrate that your idea is superior to what is presently
on the market?
How
do you envision your idea becoming commercialized?
What are the existing competitions?
Do you have a licensee in hand, possible licensees in mind?
Can
you identify barriers to getting your idea commercialized?
Will it require federal regulatory approval such as the Food & Drug
Administration?
Can you estimate the financial commitment necessary to bring this to
market?
Can you estimate the marketing cost, the selling cost of the final product?
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