Patents in Commerce provides you with all the tools and know-how you need to successfully commercialze your inventions. Use them correctly and you'll have a 100% successrate.

More than 20 experts show you how to establish initial low-cost protection (it doesn't cost 5 cents!), develop your ideas into viable products, secure manufacturing and marketing, patent your inventions with strong patent protection and license them directly to industry. Check out what you will learn.

You will learn techniques experts have used for years to have partners pay development costs...not the other way around like an invention promotion company. Good ideas don't need any of your money, there are others willing to invest. The PIC experts will show you how to find these partners and licensees. Follow the Patents in Commerce system and in just a few weeks you can be talking to potential partners and licensees and discussing your options.

The Patents in Commerce tools, software and materials consist of:

• Guidance from the most powerful collection of invention experts ever brought together. Watch, listen and counsel with our experts. 30 hours of highly focused guidance leads you step by step through the invention development process.
• America's #1 invention development guide. The most highly recommended invention development guide From Patent to Profit is your textbook. The 3rd edition (c) 2005 uses all of the most modern methods.
• A legal journal to preserve your rights. The Scientific Journal protects your rights as you track development and commercialize your invention.
• All the forms you need. The From Patent to Profit Resource Guide has attorney approved, up to date, confidentiality agreements, license agreements, disclosure forms and more.
• Your own personalized research books. Each DVD has a corresponding research workbooks that may become the most powerful assets you own.
• Patent searching and patent writing software. PatentHunter software and the Patent Search Handbook help you produce professional patent searches in minutes. If you decide to purchase it, you will also receive a Complementary Patentability Opinion. PatentWizard software help write patent applications fast. Save hundreds of dollars and several days, even weeks. The new TrademarkHunter helps you search trademarks effortlessly.

For innovators, there are three exciting options. The are:

1. Meet with an experienced SBDC Affiliate counselor and use all of the above FREE.
2. Attend PIC seminars sponsored by SBDC Affiliates.
3. Purchase the series online for distance learning.

Or, you may apply any combination of the three. Whatever your choice, you will proceed step by step with the confidence you're doing the right thing, taking the rights steps, and saving thousands of dollars in the process.

Still not sure what to do? How to proceed? Visit an SBDC Affiliate and receive your free DVD and PIC starter kit...and afterward you'll clearly know what to do.