◆ You get the Mother of All Ideas—what to do next?
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◆ Steps to the manual search (patents)
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There you sit, eating dinner, when, without warning, the Mother of All Ideas flashes through your mind at the speed of light. You leap up and write it down. Visions follow. A larger home. A sports car— perhaps two. Vacations. Private jet travel. Expensive watches. Jewelry. American Express Platinum. Fashion. Then, just as you reapproach Alpha Level, you ask yourself the sobering question that always follows the Mother of All Ideas: has someone else already done this?
—Richard C. Levy
You’re not alone. Every inventor, gadgeteer, tinkerer, and daydreamer asks him- or herself this very same question after feeling the kind of exhilaration that only the Mother of All Ideas can cause.