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Michael PotterDistinguished Researcher
Kate Gleason College of Engineering
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York 14623
Office 585-475-5561
FAX 585-475-7845
mdpemc@rit.edu
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Agenda
• Secrets of Inventing Success– All you need to know (sort of)
• Some ‘not-so-good’ ideas
• The main reasons for failure
• Some more regarding Success
• Some great recent inventions
• What’s on the Horizon
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• What is the first thing an inventor needs to know?
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• What is the first thing an inventor needs to know?– What’s the problem?– Problems are opportunities– Necessity is …
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• What is the first thing an inventor needs to know?– What’s the problem?– Problems are opportunities
• Necessity is the female or male parental monospecific polychromatic bipedal heterotroph of all invention
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• Some help for innovation– The “Henry Ford” approach
• Example Post-it notes
• “If you know what you are looking for, you are limited by what you know.” (Jerome I. Friedman)
– Cross paradigmatic thinking• Alterable Threshold Voltage FET’s Embedded
Electronic Charge MEMS Technology
– Keep quiet, NDA, CDA, need to know, etc.
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• What is the second thing an inventor needs to know?
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• What is the second thing an inventor needs to know?– Is my solution novel? Is there new teaching?
• Literature search
• Patent search (www.uspto.gov)
• Picture hanger hook
– The inventor is the champion• “…..one of ordinary skill…..can practice the invention…..”
• Patent attorney editing
• Office actions
– Cell phone prior art
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• What is the third thing an inventor needs to know?
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• What is the third thing an inventor needs to know?– Is there a market?– If not, it’s probably a bad (economic) idea– If the idea is disruptive, apply “The rule of 10”
• Square wheels
– The {10 – 40 – 40 – 10} rule
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• Some examples (actual issued patents) where market research may have been less than perfect
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Some Reasons for Failure
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• FACT: Very few independent inventors ever see their inventions succeed
• Many causes of failure, one is greed (money, control, unwilling to share)
• “I focus on doing the right thing and the money comes.” (Kathleen Dever)
• The fantasy that “Everybody will want one”
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• What is the fourth thing an inventor needs to know?
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• What is the fourth thing an inventor needs to know?– A good idea is a good idea – don’t give up– MeterMark– iBot
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iBot & IT• Dean Kamen
– A True Visionary– Creates the future as he sees it
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The iBOT – Mobility on Par
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Personal Transporter
“The Segway”
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Distance: 120 feet Flight time: 12 seconds
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SOLO TREK
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Micro-Power Supply
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Energy Harvester
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Hot Areas of Commercial Nano Development 5 yrs 10-15 yrs
Personal health diagnostics 6 17
Personalized drugs 3 9
Disposable Displays 6 9
Artificial bone tissue/organ 3 8
Novel foods 0 6
Solar power 6 6
Retinal/cochlear/ neural implants 0 6
Smart paints/pigments/coatings 33 6
Security/crime detection 2 3
Smart clothing 3 2
Prevention of congenital disease 0 0
Robotic surgery 0 0
Microsatellites 2 0
Space medicine 0 0
Games/entertainment 5 0
Survey of 100 (so-called) worldwide “nano” experts
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Not all experts are futurist
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The first human trials of the detectors will begin this year. http://link.abpi.net/l.php?20020110A2 . (9/5/2001)
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Summary
• Anyone can be an inventor– What’s the problem– Prior art search– Estimate the “real” value– Realistic and fair expectations– Persistence
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