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Hi @Samantha, happy to be on this journey with you too! Thanks for your insight, and presence, and brilliance, and charm!

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Hello everyone,

I’m Kai Lin, a trained patent agent from Singapore with 10 years of experience in the intellectual property and innovation industry. I have worked with numerous start-up companies, helping them secure patent grants and collaborating with clients to innovate on their inventions. I understand the challenges of protecting ideas and attracting investors. Inventing can be an expensive endeavor, but it has the potential to transform lives and make the world a better place. I would love to contribute to this community to help it grow with brilliant ideas and, possibly, save lives.

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Welcome, @kailin! :waving_hand: We’re really glad you’re here and excited for our community to connect with you and learn from your experience.

Feel free to share more about what you’re currently working on, stories from your time in the field, or any insights and inspiration you think would be helpful to fellow inventors. Your perspective is appreciated, and we’re looking forward to hearing more from you in the chats and threads ahead!

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Hi
I am a serial inventor looking to collaborate while move innovations to the marketplace.
Actual priorities are: find a water desalination lab in the coastline to test my prototypes; create a sustainable ecosystem active experimentation center to help and promote actual technologies and science work to be known.

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Welcome to the community, Guillermo! :waving_hand:

Excited to have you here. Your vision for water innovation and sustainable experimentation is inspiring. If you’re looking to test your desalination prototypes at a coastal lab, here are a few potential resources you might want to explore:

Desalination Testing Resources

  • National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI): A U.S. Department of Energy–backed hub focused on next-gen desalination and water treatment. They have coastal partners that may be open to collaboration.
  • University Research Labs: Institutions like Scripps Institution of Oceanography (CA), Florida Atlantic University (FL), or MIT’s J-WAFS Lab often support real-world innovation testing.
  • XPrize Water Abundance Challenge (Past Competition): Their team list might give you leads on organizations or experts aligned with your mission.

Sustainable Innovation Communities

  • Earthship Biotecture (New Mexico): A world-renowned sustainable living and experimentation center.
  • Open Source Ecology: A global movement focused on collaboratively designing sustainable, DIY industrial machines and habitats.
  • FabLabs / Makerspaces: Local networks often have fabrication tools and like-minded collaborators to help prototype green tech.

Let us know more about your prototypes or the kind of support you’re seeking and someone in the community may be able to connect you with the right partner or resource.

Glad you’re here and looking forward to seeing your journey unfold!

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Thanks.
I am looking for a coastline lab to test my prototypes or rise funds to build one.
I will have meeting in Rice University Water Institute and with Ecolyse lab at College Station, next week.

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Hello my name is Ernie Baldwin and I’m the inventor of EZ Wrapping Assoc. LLC., “Gift wrap made easy!” I provide a service and value that saves time, money and materials for all those who don’t know how to wrap gifts, who struggles with wrapping gifts and If you can wrap gifts. EZ wraps are pre-cut, pre-measured with self-adhesive tape. EZ wrap bundles come with wrap of your choice for any occasion, gift box, packing and bow. I’m looking for partnerships with companies that have merch for sale.

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Hi, My name is Spencer Erickson. I am pursuing my first patent for a type of smart watch wrist band. I made a working prototype through 3D printing, now I am doing my due diligence to try and navigate the patent process as painlessly and smoothly as possible. My initially curiosities are about the possibilities of filing a provisional patent myself, and also how to get an accurate quote for the cost to file a patent for my idea. Also, what is the difference between a patent agent and a patent lawyer. Thanks!

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Hey @spencer537, welcome to the community! :waving_hand:

That’s awesome, congrats on getting your prototype 3D printed! It sounds like you’re already off to a great start. Filing a provisional patent application (PPA) yourself is definitely possible if you’re willing to do some research and follow the USPTO’s guidelines carefully, it can be a good way to secure your filing date while you refine your invention and explore potential partners or licensing.

As for costs, the USPTO’s filing fees are relatively affordable (especially if you qualify as a micro-entity), but getting an accurate quote for a full utility patent will depend on the complexity of your design and who you work with. A patent agent can file and prosecute patents like a lawyer but typically focuses only on patent work, while a patent attorney can also provide broader legal advice, like licensing or IP disputes.

You’ll find lots of people here who’ve gone through similar steps… feel free to post updates or questions as you go. We’re glad you’re here!

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Hello everyone! I am Louis, your fellow entrepreneur. I am hoping to find insight into getting my invention to market. It is currently patent pending. Thank you

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Hello inventor community. I’m Scott, a longtime inventor, entrepreneur, and scientist that recently started a freelance lab. I’m working on ideas that improve inventors’ success and reduce costs. Since so many government, industry and academic researchers have become independent, I’m also working to help them.

I’m so happy to connect with this community.
–Scott

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Hey everyone, my name is Harvey Marks and I love to vent. I like to get out my frustrations with the world through creating, making and implementing better systems that actually work and are much more efficient. I am here because I am beginning my inVENTING journey of actualising my frustrations in positive ways rather than just complaining about the problems. My love is with peace and so I enter into pain to find peace for others through working out why things may not be working. It is astounding to see that people actually do not see how and why their problems arise. Furthermore, I find the best way to solve the worlds problems is to be extremely selfish and solve your own problems just like Linus and his coding expeditions. Anyway, I am excited to get going and meet people on my wavelength. I am mainly looking to learn how different things work in this space and basically I am a beginning in this realm, so am looking for advice on how to move forward with documenting my ideas and getting to a final product. I find myself able to distill different ideas pretty quickly and have a mind that finds it interesting in looking at too simple ideas and putting them together. this week I was in the bath and wanted to workout a way to have baths forever through saving water with an in house filtration system so there is an almost closed loop of water usage furthermore also using bath water possibly for the toilet. I enjoy making things simpler. Hasta luego. :victory_hand:

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Hi, I’m Neil. 40 years ago I designed a different type of thermal expander for the aim of generating more usable power with less losses and less thermal waste than existing designs.

My life and career went in different directions, I moved into IT and made a life and career of that.

However today we hear that AI datacentres are screaming for more power and greater efficiency and better methods of using the waste heat from the datacentres with less water sued for cooling.

Actually they are not really screaming or looking, they are shouting at their existing suppliers whilst making themselves totally inaccessible to inventors. They want to buy the end result but they have zero intention of funding us, the people who have the view to attack their problems and find designs, they just want the people who make stuff for them to sell “something” to them.

My experience to date is that the people they buy from have zero interest in funding us, the inventors, either. They will try any means to get our ideas without paying for them.

Recognising that this year the AI companies are about to hit a wall, I finally moved my expander concept to provisional patent and submitted that myself.

I now own the provisional patent on a compander concept with claimed efficiency much higher than a turbine and with manufacturing ease from multiples to tens of times easier than turbomachinery.

The design also consumes datacentre waste heat with power output, runs on any thermal source, Nuclear, gas, biomass, solar thermal or even oil fuels as it has the ability to run as an internal combustion engine. The original concept.

The clock is ticking down on non provisional. Attempts to reach out to those who need this have resulted in zero responses.

I will be leveraging AI to reduce my cost to non provisional but unless I can get some form of funding this will not lift off the ground and I don’t have that funding.

As you can see from the 40 years, I do not have another 40 years to bring this to fruition.