The prototype

The prototype is subject of nearly every patent negotiation.

Keep in your mind that your first conversational partner often comes from a commercial division or he/she is member of the marketing department. So technique lacks of understanding should not be amazing.

Otherwise, most people need the possibility of touching new and unknown things. In addition to this behavior has further advantages:

It reveals the best tooling equipment, spends informations about propable machine hour rate, optimization of material, object list, tolerance range, optimized fittings and so on.

Furthermore, it responds to questions of marketing like design, customer acceptance, advertising costs, sales trend and profit expectations.

And last but not least a prototype facilitates the decision-making in general and may answer questions until the return of investment.

But there are too risks like the danger of copying or a workaround besides other inponderables.

Think about all these pros and cons and make you free from the notion of a decision in the space of few days. It is better to calculate with four weeks and more and as the case may be with the necessity to negotiate with a rival business.

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Yours sincerely

Dr. Dr. Hans Schreiber