Profit from Your Idea: How to Make Smart Licensing Deals

The most complete guide to licensing your idea available! Like most inventors, you dream of striking it rich -- finding a company you can trust, hashing out a fair licensing deal, watching your idea hit the marketplace and then raking in the profits. But where do you find the right company? And how do you draft an agreement that protects your interests? Turn to Profit From Your Idea. This book provides the practical advice and the legal licensing language you need to turn your brainchild into a moneymaker. It helps you understand the licensing process, determine your rights, work with agents effectively, find potential licensees, funding invention licensing, license overseas, show your invention while protecting your work, negotiate a fair licensing deal, draft your own licensing agreement and understand, review and negotiate changes.