A new service to help entrepreneurs and innovators has been launched in San Francisco.

London based Innovate Product Design, has recently opened their U.S.A. headquarters in San Francisco, CA, to help American entrepreneurs and individuals develop their invention ideas. Established for over 10 years in England, with offices in London and Salisbury, Innovate Product Design are an international product development company designed to help individuals across the globe successfully protect, design and commercialize their new product ideas. 

 “Setting up in America is an exciting development for the company, not only does it offer American individuals the opportunity to explore their invention ideas cost-effectively, but it provides a gateway for them into Europe. Likewise it opens up the route for our European customers to break into the American market. We have already seen some fantastic ideas from our American clients and have been very encouraged by the feedback we have received.” commented Alastair Swanwick, Managing Director.

Jessica Vann, Client Manager in San Francisco said, “I am really excited to be helping Alastair launch this service to the American market. The response so far has been great, I look forward to working on these innovative projects with the rest of the team.”

The team at Innovate Product Design consists of highly qualified patent researchers, Intellectual Property specialists, project managers, product design engineers and prototypers. Our clients always retain 100% ownership of their idea and any resulting product, we aim to help them along that journey as much as possible by providing sound advice and skill.

For more information please go to www.innovate-design.com

The Intellectual Property Office and Aardman, the brilliant team behind Wallace & Gromit, have joined forces to launch a Cracking Ideas brand new challenge for 2012 – 2013 based around one of the creative duo’s favourite subjects … SPACE.

Inspired by Wallace & Gromit’s cosmic adventures in ‘A Grand Day Out’ they want you to develop your own innovative space-age Cracking Ideas and get them rocketing to them for a chance to win some out-of-this-world prizes. This year there is also the added bonus of a cracking creative challenge by constructing your own Cracking Ideas Moon Bug piloted by Wallace & Gromit and complete with spaces for your designs of galactic gizmos and crater making contraptions!

They want as many 4 – 16 year olds as possible throughout England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales to have fun, learn and participate.

Follow this link to find out more and to get involved!

Innovate client Damon Meredith from sinkstation, was interviewed by Pauline McCole on the Simon Mayo show, BBC Radio 2.

In the interview Damon describes his product, talks about how he came about the idea and how he went about getting it developed.

Aired on the 4th May 2012, Simon Mayo Show.

Listen to radio clip

Innovate Design feature in the latest issue of Quality World magazine. The article – “Mind the Gap (in the market)”, looks at how inventors can take their innovation from the drawing board and into practice.

QW spoke to Innovate’s Clio Davies about creating an organisation-wide ethos for innovation, keeping the momentum going for a new innovation and taking it to market.

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We feature in the March issue of Salisbury Life, the Business Insider – Fantastic Four feature.

“Fantastic Four – Our pick of the most exciting, intriguing or important local business sories right now.”

Dragons’ Den, Salisbury Style

“…few of us, perhaps, realise that lurking in Salisbury’s Endless Street is something very similar – Innovate Product Design, the UK’s largest product design company, where the ideas of individual inventors and entrepreneurs are analysed for potential, developed and shaped.”

To read the full article – click here

Innovate Design feature in the latest issue of Forward Focus, the magazine for business people with a vision.

You’ve had your one percent of inspiration – now it’s time for the ninety-nine percent perspiration. Today’s inventors need more than just bright eyes if their products are going to translate into profits. Nick Green looks at what it takes to turn a concept into a commercial reality.

View the full Forward Focus article

Innovate Product Design’s Clio Davies analyses inventors most common misconceptions surrounding intellectual property, in the latest issue of Intellectual Property Magazine.

The fast-moving world of new technology and innovation seems a million miles away from many people’s everyday lives, but with current media platforms such as Dragons’ Den, The Apprentice and American Inventor championing the everyman inventor and entrepreneur, new opportunities are arising for ‘ordinary’ people to enter into this pioneering environment.

With a lack of teaching on the subject of intellectual property within educational institutions, very little is known about the steps involved in bringing a new product idea to fruition. As an established UK-based product design consultancy specialising in intellectual property and product commercialisation, Innovate Product Design Ltd see a number of ideas come through the door on a daily basis, the majority of which are from people who have no experience of the innovation industry and what steps they should or should not be taking. Due to a lack of knowledge or misconstrued advice, for some, unfortunately, it can be too late, as they come seeking protection for a product they already have on the market. It is patenting, in particular, where most misconceptions lie and this can potentially jeopardise the future of the product, as disclosure prior to applying for a patent can prevent it ever being granted.

“Hearsay surrounding the cost of obtaining intellectual property rights is often one of the greatest deterrents that prevents inventors from successfully securing the right form of protection at the right time.”

View the full Intellectual Property Magazine article

In October 2011, Innovate Design and two of our clients, BoginaBag and Chargem, featured in Eureka! a monthly supplement in The Times.

A Shedload of ideas – Tales of everyday invention. By Megan Walsh

View The Times – Eureka! article

Innovate Design features in the most recent issue of New Design Magazine (94). Editor Alastair Welch recently visited our design studios to find out what we do and how we do it.

“The workshop at Innovate Product Design’s Salisbury headquarters feels like a cross between Q’s laboratory for the James Bond films and the set of the BBC business show Dragons’ Den. Amidst the bare-brick walls, machines and gizmos, one half expects to bump into Desmond Llewellyn pitching a fountain pen that fires poisin darts to an unimpressed Duncan Bannatyne. It is a fitting home for a business that specialises in using design to help individual inventors and entrepreneurs realise an idea and take it to market.”

To read the full article and to see some great pictures of our studios, click the link below.

New Design Magazine article

Sonia Day has won the Concept Award at the 2011 Concept and Innovation Awards from the Baby Products Association. Tooth Ticklers is a uniquely designed toothbrush specifically for babies and toddlers.

While there are existing toothbrushes on the market for children with variations in handle designs, these are generally smaller versions of adult toothbrushes which make cleaning little teeth unsatisfactory and fiddly. Tooth Ticklers have bristles all the way round the head so top and bottom teeth get brushed at the same time with different length bristles for hard to reach places. The ergonomically designed handle with a weighted bottom also ensures that Tooth Ticklers remain upright to keep the bristles away from unhygienic surfaces.

The award was presented by Simon Veale, director of leading parcel and carrier manager Global Freight Solutions (GFS) official sponsor of the BPA Concept & Innovation Awards. Simon commented: “We at GFS are very proud to sponsor these awards for the second year running and the five finalists here today are a shining example of the high standard of entries overall.

“However, the entries stood out not only for their product design, but their business planning, commitment to their product and also visitor feedback during the Baby Show for Trade.”

Innovate Product Design conducted the worldwide patent search and CAD drawings for Tooth Ticklers. Congratulations to Sonia and all the best for the successful progression of the project. For more information, please visit  www.toothticklers.com