If you have an idea for a product and you're not ready to develop a full fledge business out of it, you have the option to sell the idea and profit from it.  Let's face it, taking an idea and turning it into a product then getting it into retail stores and selling it to consumers is not an easy task.  If this is your first idea and you're limited in resources, selling the idea would be a viable option.

You don't have to fully develop and patent the idea or turn it into a product in order to sell it.  Having a Provisional Patent on file is sometimes all it takes to provide for legal protection until you or a buyer decides to fully patent the idea later on.

There are organizations that provide the service of offering ideas for sale.  Below is a list of those organizations that can help you find buyers for your idea.

 

 

Organization

Service

Description

Cost

Free Patent Auction

Sell

License

An online auction site that let you list and sell your patent for free.

Free

Idea Connection Sell

License
Idea Connection lets you list your invention/product where it could be sold.  It has over a million visitors a year and publishes weekly newsletter that goes out to over 41,000 subscribers.  They do not take any fee for any sales transaction. Free

Idea Trade Network

Sell

License

Idea Network allows companies and individuals to license, buy or sell ideas, new inventions as well as patents and trademarks.

Free

Idea Buyer, LLC

Sell

License

An online auction site that let you list and sell your patent for free.

Free

Intellectual Ventures   Intellectual Ventures purchases inventions from individual inventors and companies of all sizes and licenses them to the world’s most innovative companies  
Invent Spark   Invent Spark lets you list your product so that companies searching for inventions/products to buy can find them.  

Davidson Integration

Sell

License

Presents your invention to potential buyers for a fee.

 

Patent Auction   Patent Auction lets you list your invention/product for license or sale.  They conduct an auction and the deal goes to the highest bidder.  

Yet2.com, Inc.

Sell

License

Presents your invention to potential buyers for a fee.

 

Sellidea.com   This site lets you list your list your invention/product for sale where interested parties could find it.  

 

 

An interesting service:  Quirky will help you develop and bring your product to market without out of pocket cost

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