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Invention Contests

By on April 5, 2005 in Ideas

Entrepreneur: “Winning a contest is a great way to achieve the kind of success many inventors only dream about. Sponsored by major companies like Staples and Procter & Gamble, these invention contests offer entrepreneurs major market introduction opportunities. Of course, you can’t win if you don’t enter. Check out the websites for the United Inventors Association and Inventors’ Digest magazine for information on contests currently underway. Entering Staples’ 2004 Invention Quest contest really paid off for Todd Basche, an inventor in Los Altos, California: He was awarded the $25,000 grand prize, plus a license from Staples, which will market Basche’s WordLock under the Staples brand name.”

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  • Julie Brennan

    We entered the Staples contest – our product Tackdots is now online at staples – in stores this week – “Do your postits fall off your monitor?” – Neil Grimwood my fiancee invented the solution and I negotiated the agreement. “TackDots, the mini-bulletin board that goes everywhere and anywhere”, but originally invented to stick onto the computer monitor. It has many other uses, too. T

  • http://www.stickdot.com Neil Grimwood

    I invented the Stickdot to keep my one important post-it from falling off my monitor. Look at it like a mini-bulletin board, a bulletin board that adheres to the bottom area of your monitor, or on a door, or a file cabinet, or a window, any area where you need to stick a note, a reminder notice, or a UPS Pickup Note.

    Staples did a contract with us, changed the name to Tackdots, and have them in all their stores and on-line. The only thing Staples did not do is inform their public about how handy the Tackdot is. Go to our website and see, thanks, Neil Grimwood the inventor of Tackdots

  • michelle

    Great site for current listing of invtion contests is at:

    http://www.americaninventorspot.com.

    They also have a calender listing most invetion events.

  • http://lmaher22frontiernet.net larry Maher

    I really think I’ve hit on a great, simple new product for the cosmetic industry. How do I bring it market. I already contacted P and G and they told me come back with a reg. pat. Is there another way?

  • cassy

    this is good news to those inventors,who wants to bring their invention to the people and present it with pride, coz every contest for them,and to be declered as winner, is a big thing and makes them proud for the success of their invention.

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