Several months ago I heard an advertisement from a company who was looking for new inventions. People could set up an appointment and see if their ideas have merit. This last Friday I went to Sandy Utah to meet with a representative of the company. I have several inventions, so I thought it would be worth a shot to share some of them with this company.

I went to InventCorp(?) and talked to John Murphy. Before I talked about my ideas he and I signed a non-disclosure agreement. He then said I could present one to three of my inventions.

The first invention (a handle to make is easier to carry a bunch of groceries bags at once). Apparently it has already been invented so I will need to see if I can find some. Whoever they sere, they were brilliant.

The second invention was a shade against glare of the sun. It would be a thick plastic hand that could adhere to the glass of the front window of the car that would be place where the sun is. It would use the same type of suction cup technology as the suction grips that are used to pull up the fake floor of a server room. John said that might not work because many states do not permit items to hang from the car. I then told him of my back windows same idea. That would be a rectangular umbrella that you would open up in the back windows of the car. You would push it against the back window on a hot sunny day and you shade the car. You would have a loop on the handle of the umbrella that would hook on the head rest of the front driver.

The third item is The H0ippy. John thought it had merit. Ironically that was the invention I came up with while I was driving up to the appointment. So we’ll have to see if that one can go anywhere.

Unfortunately it would cost about $800 to do a market analysis on my third invention. He showed me a printed book that featured the types of data I would get for my investment The market analysis would be to see what other inventions are similar. To see what the market potential, type of material for construction etc. If I paid less than $1K I could also have my idea patented.

Once that is done it could cost me another $10K to pay this company to distribute the idea to potential markets. There would be no guarantee of success. He was honest about that.

I think I’ll wait. But at least I shared some of my ideas with someone. Maybe we’ll see if I can ever move forward on the hippie. The first step is to get feedback from different people and talking to John was a step in that direction.