Do you need help with a Competing Product Search?

Let Inventor Start help you by performing product research of competing products related to your idea invention.

How to do product research correctly?

In order for an invention to be patent-able, your invention must be new. This means you have a new part, element, feature, or step in a process in comparison to other products, services, or publications currently on the market.

How to do I perform thorough and accurate product research? Let Inventor Start teach you.

Inventor Start’s Research of Existing Products download will walk you through the proper procedures in order to perform a competing product or service research. This download comes with step-by-step instructions, research products forms, product analysis tools, and samples created by Patent Attorney Mat Grell. In using his inventions, DripID® and Sneaker Doodle™, you’ll have an easy to follow, do-it-yourself approach to privately researching your invention. Get started today!

What is product research?

Product research is research on competing products. Whether you do the research yourself or you hire a research company or market research firm to perform market research for you is up to you. The purpose of this research is to first locate all the competing or relevant, similar, or related products. Next, you’ll evaluate each product and identify each product’s parts and pieces to determine if your invention has a new part, element, feature, or step in a process in comparison to the competing products located during your search. You may have an invention to patent if you have a new element or part not found in the competing products relevant to your invention.

Documents included in the digital download:

• Product Research Information & Instructions

• Product Research Form Clean

• Product Research Sample1 DripID

• Product Research Sample2 Sneaker Doodle

• Product Research How to Evaluate Commercial Viability

Why perform research of existing products?

There are a number of reasons why an inventor should spend time searching and educating themselves about existing products. In order for your new idea to be patent-able, it must be new.  To be new or novel, means you typically have a new part, element, feature, or step in a process that no other product contains. To know if you have a new part, element, feature, or step in a process you must research all of the competing products on the market.

Where do you look for existing products?

Search online, in stores, search or attend trade shows, and search industry magazines. Gather information, publications, and pictures of these products to identify their parts and features. Step back and compare your invention’s list of parts to the existing products found during your product research. Then you’ll be ready to determine whether you have a new part or feature. If yes, you may have a new idea that may be protected by a patent.