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There are many inventors everyday who invent extraordinary things which improve our daily lives. Some invent medical instruments to relieve daily physical stresses. Others invent new forms of communication whether through phones or sites like Twitter. And others stumble upon inventions by chance such as Charles Goodyear who accidentally learned the process of vulcanization by accidentally dropping raw rubber on a hot metal surface.Many inventors have no formal scientific training and often make their inventions through simple common sense. The need a widget that does x and y, so they build another widget with the same elements of x and y which fixes whatever need they have. For instance, if someone were to need a laser pointer and a ball point pen, but do not want to carry both in their pocket, they would simply manufacture a housing with the pen on one end and the laser pointer on the other.Now although many of these inventions can prove to be very useful and marketable, not all are necessarily patentable. In order for an invention to be patentable it must be one of its kind. But more importantly, it… More >>