Click and win: Inventors cash in on their ideas

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Click and win Inventors cash in on their ideas

• (NYT, 4/22/01)

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www.ideas.com

• Michael Smithson suggested a frozen drink in a
  container that children can wear on their wrists,
  sipping it as it thaws, not losing it
• 5000 from Coca-Cola

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www.ideas.com

• Albert Muller perfected a better nozzle for
  heavy-duty vacuum cleaners but didnt want to go
  through the patent process
• 5000 from Sears Roebuck

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www.ideas.com

• Several new sites that buy or sell intellectual
  property
• Caution Inventors may be losing the rights to
  their ideas just by submitting them!
• Coke is posting all 889 new ideas on their
  internal website

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www.brightideas.com

• A competitor to www.ideas.com
• Companies pay the site 50,000 to host a contest

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Other competitors

• www.ideadollar.com
• Waterproof shower poster is now being sold in
  stores
• www.brainhead.com

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