Information for Invention Solicitation

In order to prepare your solicitation package we need to know a few things about your new invention.

Everything you submit to us is kept in total confidentiality.

If we have not done so already, please request a signed non-disclosure agreement between

Rounds, Miller and Associates and yourself.

Please answer the questions below and then click the SUBMIT button.

The material will be e-mailed to us and once we take delivery of it, we’ll send you a confirmation e-mail letting you know that we’ve received it and that your project is in process.

Once we have this information, we can complete the database research, produce the letters and envelopes, and create a marketing brochure for you.

1. What Contact information do you want to appear on your documents?

Name        

Address    

City                  

State         

Zip Code   

E-Mail       

Phone           

FAX          

Website   

2. How do you want your name to appear in the signature of the letters? (E.G. Mike Rounds, Michael Rounds, or M. F. Rounds?)

Typed Signature   

3. Who is the contact person when a potential licensee contacts you?

Name       
 

Phone Number   
 

E-Mail Address   
 

4. When the project is complete, we’ll be sending you a priority mail package with everything inside. Where do you want it sent?
 

Name   
 

 Address   
 

City, State, Zip Code   

5. What is your name of the invention?   

6. Do you want to use that name in the solicitation?   

7. Do you want us to create an alternative name for the invention?    Yes    No

8. What does the invention do? Please be as precise as possible.

9. What are the advantages or benefits of your invention over any existing invention that does the same thing or something similar? (Is it faster, cheaper, works better, is it a better looking design, is it more ergonomically correct, etc.)

10. Who is the end user for this invention? Please describe whether or not it applies to an object (Like an accessory for an automobile) or for use in a place (Like a kitchen tool or device).

11. Can you define an existing industry that would be most likely to be interested in your invention? (For example, a new car speedometer would be the automotive industry and a board game would be the toy industry)

12. Do you know of, or have a preference for, a specific database of potential licensees for your invention? (If yes, please tell us as much about it as you can. E.G. – who publishes it, where can we find it, etc.?)       Yes       No

Tell us what you know about the database   

13. Do you have an organizational logo that you want to appear on your materials? (If yes please e-mail us a copy so we can integrate it into the materials)       Yes       No

14. Do you have digital photos of the Invention? If no, how do you want to obtain them:   Yes       No

• You’ll take them or have them taken and e-mail them to us   Yes       No

• You want to send us the invention and have us take them take them. (If yes there is NO charge for the photos but you MUST pay the shipping charges, both ways, to get the for the invention to us)   Yes       No

15. Have you filed a provisional patent for your invention?    Yes       No

If yes, what is the Patent Pending Number?   
 

16. Do you have an issued patent on the invention?    Yes       No

If yes, what is the patent number?   
 

17. Have you applied for or been issued a trademark for the invention?    Yes       No

If it has been issued, what is the registration number?   

18. Have you applied for formal copyright on the invention?    Yes       No

If the answer is yes, what is the date of copyright and the registration number?

Date:

Copyright registration number: