Did you know Thomas Edison wasn't the first person to patent the light bulb? His competitors filed for and received a patent before him, but Edison challenged them in court and proved his case with a detailed record of the new invention idea.

To document your inventions or new product ideas, use a permanently bound book with numbered pages. This book can be used to document new invention ideas for future development, or to document the progress of an idea from concept to completion.

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