1. How to Be an Inventor Instructor: Drew Boyd Week 3

2. What does it take to be an Inventor? Smart? Creative?

3. What does it take to be an Inventor? Smart? Creative? No!!!

4. What does it take to be an Inventor? Smart? Creative? No!!! You need to be: –Observant –Curious –Disciplined –Persistent –Question asker –See possibilities

5. Agenda Review –Second Tool: Replacement –Lab Books Third Tool: Multiplication Introduction to PATENTS

6. How Do People Invent Things? Find a Solution…

7. How Do People Invent Things? Find a Solution… then…..

8. How Do People Invent Things? Find a Solution… then….. Find a Problem

9. Dont Invent Things Like This!

10. Review Lab Books Who has an idea or an invention from their Lab Book that they want to share?

11. Second Tool: Replacement 1.Find a product and list all of its parts 2.Take a part away 3.REPLACE the part with something else 4.Imagine your Virtual Product 5.Ask, Who would use this?

12. 1.Screen 2.Remote Control 3.Volume 4.Channel 5.Speaker 6.Box 7.Plug Take away the screen…

13. And REPLACE it with what? Computer screen Projector Head mounted

14. Examples Stapler Tape-ler Ice SkateRoller Blade Coke CanTwist Top Can Phone CradleBelt Phone

15. Third Tool: Multiplication 1.Find a product and list all of its parts 2.Multiply, or create a copy of one of the parts 3.Change the multiplied component in some way 4.Imagine your Virtual Product 5.Ask, Who would use this?

16. Example: Multiply a Part

17. Picture-in-Picture TV

18. Patents A patent is a property right Granted by the Government Excludes others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention How? Apply to the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office (USTPO)

19. Patent Examples

23. Next Week Review all the tools so far Review your LAB BOOKS –Invent something!! Learn a new tool Practice!