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Ideation session  Ideation help in triggering more idea!! different people see a problem in different ways and think with their own perspective. this is good thing to leverage to solve any problem. when you want your team or organization to be innovative and create a innovative culture, just go for ideation session on specific problem areas where you want to focus.  how to do an ideation session: - Group the people into small teams(max 5)  - Give the topic or area to think for solution  - Give the background on the topic and why you are looking to work on that topic - Ask to come-up with at least 3 solution and one best solution which they want to consider in evaluation. - set a time frame for to submit their ideas e.g. 2 hr. with documentation e.g. presentation etc. - evaluate the idea. here if you have any constraints they will play important roles in choosing the best solution effectively.  - every solution is a good solution until evaluated against any defin...

Feedback or views from others are also important when you are working on an idea. It is important to listen to the feedback from others e.g. reviewers or mentors or domain experts or within the group on the idea and solution you have proposed. These feedback help in improving the idea further and cover other aspects which  you have not thought off. Take the feedback and do a brain storm session on the feedback. if it is a good feed and make sense to your idea work on the feedback to address it in your idea. if you feel that the feedback is not positive and is discourage to you. just avoid it and do not get discouraged by it. Many time it happens that the idea which you have proposed is not considered by the reviewers. in this case ask for the feedback on what is lacking in the idea so you can work on improving it. So the get the feedback from the domain experts/reviewers/ within the group to know their point of view on the idea. Listen to the feedback and think o...

Innovation - Point to consider for writing an idea Here is the list of points to write an idea: Title of the idea Objective Problem statement/Motivation  Scenarios in the problem  Explain the problem with an example Write the summary of the Proposed solution Write a detailed solution by covering all scenarios  Create a logical flow of information for the solution State what is Novel in the idea  While working these points you can also do a search on web for any existing solution for prior art. Once you are sure that there is noting out there similar to your idea you can contact a professional to write a patent draft for filing to the patent office in legal language which is acceptable or follow the guide line to write one by yourself to file it.

Innovation -  How to cultivate your idea? It is important to develop your idea to be able to make it in proper shape to make to ready for draft. First identify the problem by observing it.  Define the current and future state and identify the gaps for the problem: Current State -> Gap -> Future State So how to cultivate it and make it ready for solution: Define the problem statement clearly based on the current state Identify all the aspect of the problem Think about the scenarios on the problem Explain the problem with some examples  Clearly state the targeted points of the problem Identify the Gap: List down the gaps issues in the current state Think about the solution on these gaps Create a logical layout of the solution Write down the steps to achieve the future state by filling the gaps identified Write down the in scope and not in scope claims Cover the scenarios identified in the problem statement Link the solution with th...

Innovation: What is a prior art patent search and why it is important? Prior art search: Prior art refers to scientific and technical information that exists before the effective date of a given patent application. Prior art may be found in any public documents such as patents, technical publications, conference papers, marketing brochures, products, devices, equipment, processes and materials. A prior art search refers to an organized review of prior art contained in public documents. Prior art searches can be of various kinds: Patentability searches conducted by an inventor before filing a patent application; Invalidity searches in litigation conducted by the accused infringer;  Patent examination searches conducted by a government examiner in order to determine whether to grant or reject a patent application and State of-the-art searches for information in a technical field.  In all cases, searches are conducted using different kinds of databases, from pu...

Innovation : Innovators invent new methods of doing things. These inventions can helpful to the society for people's good or can be a way to earn money.  So it becomes important to the inventor to secure their idea and protract it form any unauthorized use by other to earn money and claim the solution as their idea. The five legal tools for protecting ideas are  Patents,  Trademarks,  Copyrights,  Trade dress unfair competition laws,  and Trade secrets.  Some of these legal tools can also be used creatively as marketing aids, and often more than one form of protection is available for a single design or innovation So get the idea protected under any one of the above on your name or if you want it to be used by anyone and make it open for social good at least publish it in any general so you can claim at any point if need in case someone tries to misuse it or claims as their idea.

Innovation:  There are multiple drivers for innovations. An invention can be either Driven by specific problem statement Driven by passion  Driven by sense of giving back to the society  Driven by gaps in the existing system Driven by need of the time and so on. Everyday there are so many things happening around us. If you are a good observer you can identify a problem which is a general problem or any specific problem.  General problem are easy to observed by most of the people but only few people are able to identify specific problem in surrounding or in any existing system. If a person is able identify the specific problems and able to think on solving it. It will lead to inventing the new methods of doing the thing in better way or address the problem. Observation is one of the quality for inventors!! So try to observer the situations around you and think on solving if there are any problems.