Inventor Assistance Program ... coaching service for the do-it-yourself inventor.

First Step: Application for Eligibility. This first step gives us an opportunity to learn more about you, your invention, your progress, your objectives and time-frame. Please take a few moments to fill in our application for Inventor Assistance Program, and as a result, we will reply with eligibility to join our program.

Royalty Guide special. As an added bonus, with a completed application, we will send you our Royalty Guide; an article by Glenn Lippman entitled, “What are Reasonable Royalties in a Licensing Agreement.” Getting good royalty information is difficult as this information tends to be kept secret. The Royalty Guide was originally posted to Techno-l in 1994 and provides useful information. Since 1994 the Royalty Guide has appeared, with permission, in numerous texts on the subject of licensing and royalties. It is also available at the USPTO’s online support library.