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This Invention: A Family Content Network

A journal, information and resources for establishing a Family Content Network, as I am doing - essentially a framework for managing all your Family's online assets and inventions for maximum exposure and revenue. This blog began as an inventor's journal, and retains the overall parent inventor's context and mindset.

Sunday, January 08, 2006

(20) Table of Contents

In this 20th post, it's time to review. I've post-edited the posts with "chapter" numbers to help with references, and avoid replicating information; this post will serve as a running "table of contents" and eventually summarized list of online resources. Though this is a blog, it's really more of a journal, perhaps some day to become a book of sorts.

(1-"It started When" - 1/15/2005) Initial idea (brief); though the inventive idea hit around August 2004, here's the first blog posting.

(2-"In retrospect" - 1/16/2005) First online searching

(3- "Checking things out" - 1/18/2005) More online searching, looked around stores, initial crude prototype

(4- "Search results" - 2/4/2005) Paid $450 for a successful patent search; created an NDA

(5 - "Multiple Fronts" - 2/12/2005) Finding a designer; evaluating patent pending application

(6- "Timeline" - 2/12/2005) Comment on timeline

(7 - "Time Flies" - 2/27/2005) General updates and concern about competition

(8 - "Return from Hiatus" - 10/22/2005) Haven't blogged in a while, so busy with Summer - complete update on marketing research, 'real' patent filing, CAD execution, Inventor's groups and contests

(9 - "The Internet and home-based business" - 10/22/2005) More marketing comments, and using the Internet/websites in home-based business

(10 - "Patent filing underway" - 11/05/2005) - working with the patent lawyer, and comments on accessories

(11 - "First Draft of patent filing - 11/13/2005) - email exchange with patent lawyer, with my complaints/concerns

(12 - "Patent submitted" - 11/25/2005) - as it says, plus more comments on prototyping and marketing

(13 - "Great advice" - 11/26/2005) - inventor's advice from alt.inventors

(14 - "Invention contest and Sirius" - 12/08/2005) - Discussion of entering an invention contest, updates on the CAD output, and getting a satellite radio

(15 - "Keep on track" - 12/18/2005) - Keeping the designer on track, getting a 'waiver' from the day job

(16 - "3-D Printing!" - 12/20/2005) - Designer discussion about 3-d printing, Contest entry progress, patent search service online

(17 - "Staying underground" - 12/22/2005) - NOT entering the contest, after all

(18 - "New Year's push" - 12/28/2005) - Humanitarian values of invention, alternate embodiments, plus packaging options

(19 - "Entirely Random" - 12/29/2005) - First comments to the blog; short discussion of Ebay

(20 - "Table of Contents" - 1/8/2006) - This one.

(21 - "Ready to Prototype"- 1/14/2006) - Ready to prototype, private schools, and Whizkids business.

(22 - "DOB: 2/1/2006" - 2/1/2006) - the first physical model is born, now deciding between prices and types of first multiple prototyping run.

(23 - "The family business" - 2/16/2006) - designing a family network of businesses around the invention, and its taxonomy

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