Quote from: TDoS on Dec 15, 2024, 06:38 AMHow much basic market research have you done to see if these toys bump into some concept already out there that might cause a patent problem? Not the legal patent angle, just similarities. Just for the hell of it I did some googling for like building shapes with toys for kids, and while nothing looked exactly like yours, there are quite a few snap together parts/patterns/objects type things out there that appear similar, although none I could find that were exactly the same.

I used quite a few different building sets while teaching.  The Robotics classes which have developed over the last 20 years or so use them.  Every company that makes parts for Robot toys has some patented parts, as will I.  What is different with PolyPandora is that I am making it developmentally integrated.  It starts with basic shapes and sets that are geared for 3-5 year olds to play with experimenting, then moves up to more complex shapes and connections for 6-9 year olds and completes the developmental process with the age 10+ sets.  The beauty of this system is that the kits you buy for the kid to play with at age 3 still have useful parts you can put into models ypu build for a university level architecture course.  If A parent buys a kid a different kit each year growing up, by the time they get to college they'll have a full array of parts to build almost anything you can imagine.

Nobody else does anything like this.  Companies either make the Preschool level building blocks or the complex Robotics stuff.  Nothing is compatible with anything else, in general.  PolyPandora solves this problem and creates a whole new world for a child to grow in and with.  You can think of the PolyPandora world a little like the wotld of the Transformers films, which are based on the Hasbro Transformer toys.  You could make movies based on PolyPandora World also, if it ever got that popular.

Of course, it takes selling and marketing to get to a point like that, and the toy industry is very nasty for idea theft and big companies squashing small ones.  So there's a huge gulf between what I am currently doing and seeing any financial gain from it.  I'll do what I can to protect it as I go, but my funds are limited and Patents are expensive.  Just have to see how it goes, one step at a timer.

RE