This guide to marketing and protecting ideas and inventions takes the reader step-by-step through the protection process - from how to patent, trademark or copyright an idea, to saving money in legal fees. It includes the names, addresses and phone numbers of over 2000 associations, public and private marketing services and sources of information. there are sample legal and licensing agreements and dozens of reproducable forms to help the reader save time and money. A section on Ripoffs presents findings of US Senate hearings (September 1994) on invention marketing scams, as well as the FTC's Dirty Dozen list.