The Eureka Method: How to Think Like an Inventor
Fuel your "Eureka!" moments and become a successful inventor

Envision breakthrough new products using the proven methods and applied reasoning techniques of today's successful inventors. The Eureka Method: How to Think Like an Inventor lays out a systematic approach to innovation. Discover how to look at social developments and trends to find new ways of combining and improving existing technologies and systems. Plain-language examples of real-world patents, products, and inventors illuminate each point along the way.

Find out how to:

  • Gain regular flashes of inspiration based on your understanding of the inventive process
  • Improve and expand existing products in ways that fill social needs
  • Fuse elements from different products into new and useful combinations
  • Discover new opportunities by side-stepping rules and gaming the system
  • "Futurize" your inventions and prevent them from becoming obsolete
  • Identify emerging regulations and use them to your creative advantage
  • Learn about comprehensive patent applications that protect your rights
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The Eureka Method: How to Think Like an Inventor
Fuel your "Eureka!" moments and become a successful inventor

Envision breakthrough new products using the proven methods and applied reasoning techniques of today's successful inventors. The Eureka Method: How to Think Like an Inventor lays out a systematic approach to innovation. Discover how to look at social developments and trends to find new ways of combining and improving existing technologies and systems. Plain-language examples of real-world patents, products, and inventors illuminate each point along the way.

Find out how to:

  • Gain regular flashes of inspiration based on your understanding of the inventive process
  • Improve and expand existing products in ways that fill social needs
  • Fuse elements from different products into new and useful combinations
  • Discover new opportunities by side-stepping rules and gaming the system
  • "Futurize" your inventions and prevent them from becoming obsolete
  • Identify emerging regulations and use them to your creative advantage
  • Learn about comprehensive patent applications that protect your rights
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The Eureka Method: How to Think Like an Inventor

The Eureka Method: How to Think Like an Inventor

by John Hershey
The Eureka Method: How to Think Like an Inventor

The Eureka Method: How to Think Like an Inventor

by John Hershey

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Fuel your "Eureka!" moments and become a successful inventor

Envision breakthrough new products using the proven methods and applied reasoning techniques of today's successful inventors. The Eureka Method: How to Think Like an Inventor lays out a systematic approach to innovation. Discover how to look at social developments and trends to find new ways of combining and improving existing technologies and systems. Plain-language examples of real-world patents, products, and inventors illuminate each point along the way.

Find out how to:

  • Gain regular flashes of inspiration based on your understanding of the inventive process
  • Improve and expand existing products in ways that fill social needs
  • Fuse elements from different products into new and useful combinations
  • Discover new opportunities by side-stepping rules and gaming the system
  • "Futurize" your inventions and prevent them from becoming obsolete
  • Identify emerging regulations and use them to your creative advantage
  • Learn about comprehensive patent applications that protect your rights

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780071770408
Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date: 09/22/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 352
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide

Table of Contents

Part I: Thinking Like an Inventor
Chapter 1. The Three Questions That Should Follow a Eureka! Moment
Chapter 2. Improvement Inventions
Chapter 3. Developing an Inventive Mindset by Gaming the System
Chapter 4. Increasing Dimensions to Spark Eureka! Moments
Chapter 5. Combination Inventions
Part II: Seeking a Eureka! Moment
Chapter 6. Law, Regulation, and Standards
Chapter 7. Overcoming and Using Constraints
Chapter 8. Be Driven by the Bottom Line
Part III: Appendixes
Appendix A. Patents: Mileposts of Invention
Appendix B. U.S. Patent 6004596 "Sealed Crustless Sandwich"
Appendix C. Inventors and Inventorship
Index
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