On this page you will find useful links and resources for brainstorming, creativity, idea creation, inventing, the important key subject area of how to protect your ideas and related fields...

...as well as details of our reciprocal linking program.

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Useful links for brainstorming:

Brainstorming for business, inventing or creativity using the Inventing Dreams Five-Step Brainstorming Formula

Brainstorming with the Mind Graph visual graphic language - web site includes the 'Mind Graph Ebook' for download

Mind Tools - very useful, top site with excellent content relating to creativity and brainstorming etc.

Creativity & Innovation - useful site for creativity and innovation techniques

Generating ideas is only the first step of the process. Once you have your ideas you will need to turn them into something tangible to exploit and protect them for the future...

So if you are interested in ideas, you will have to come to grips with your Intellectual Property Rights (or IP Rights for short). The main IP Rights are Copyright, Performance Rights and Design Rights.

Alternatively if you have an invention, with real commercial appeal, you may consider applying for a Patent and maybe a Trademark.

For more information on the common useful IP rights and Patents, please click on these links:

Finished brainstorming? How to Copyright ideas explained

All about Performance Rights and Mechanical Rights

UK Design Rights for three-dimensional objects

Registered Designs - a Patent alternative in some countries

Patents explained - what you need to know first

How to go about creating a prototype for an inventive idea

Assigning your rights to other people

Trademarks for branded products and businesses

How to further protect your rights - info, tips and suggestions

For further information and useful web sites relating to the above IP rights, Trademarks and Patents etc., try these links to useful web sites outside of inventingdream.com:

Intellectual Property (Copyright, Designs, Patents and Trade Marks) at the UK Patent Office

The United States Patent and Trademark Office

The United States Library of Congress U.S. Copyright Office

European Union Trade Marks and Designs Office - information about E.U. Community Trade Marks and Community Designs

The Institute of Patentees and Inventors - a wealth of useful information for inventors and inventing on idea protection, patents and trademarks etc.

If your site is related to idea creation, brainstorming, inventing, or any associated theme, we will be delighted to link to your site from inventingdream.com when you link to ours!

We would greatly appreciate it if you use the following HTML, when you link to inventingdream.com - simply cut and paste this linking code/text into your web page:

Once you have set up your link to our site and uploaded it to your server etc. complete the form below and click the 'send' button - or email Gareth Baker direct on . Thank you.

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1. A few brief words as to why you think we should swap links - e.g. you have a content or sales site appropriate for or related to our themes and web pages
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