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About Penny Ballou
Expertise
The Invention Process; Royalties; Licensing Inventions/Products; Pricing; Direct to Market; Marketing/Promotions; Patent Searching; DIY patent writing; Types of patents/costs/how to's; Funding (grants and Angel investors); Prototyping; Off-Shore sourcing.

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I am founder of an inventors group; Advisory Board President of www.inventored.org; former Licensing Executive Society member; researcher for www.piausa.org and a consultant; plus moderate and contribute to several online inventor discussion groups.

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Invention development: well-studied and applied in all aspects of the process and an inventor myself with one invention in patent pending and others ramping up. Lived and attended schools in Mainland China and the UK.

 
   

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Inventing New Products/Inventions - New Idea for Children's Product


Expert: Penny Ballou - 10/29/2009

Question
Hello Penny,
I have an idea for a children's product.  I have been researching the internet endlessly to try and find a company to help me either license or manufacture/market this idea.  I believe I want to go the licensing route but having read that there are so many untrustworthy companies out there in this arena, I'm very hesitant.  I found Lambert & Lambert but soon thereafter saw too many complaints on them.  I'm now contemplating going with New Funtiers.  Have you heard of them or are there any other companies in this space who you would recommend?  

Thank you so very much for your time.  
Regards,
Soo

Answer
Greetings,

I haven't heard anything negative about Paul Lapidus owner of New Funtiers. He used to charge $125 to evaluate inventions not sure if that price still stands.

You might also check out Mike Marra at Marradesign.com  I personally recommend him!!
(tell him I referred you or that I said "Hi"!) He does charge a small fee too but you'll get back a lot of history about what came before your design along with his expert opinion.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Penny Ballou

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