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Please send us a signed copy of our Confidential Disclosure Agreement and the fee for our evaluation and consultation service. Please include Photo Copies of you Written Description, Drawings, and Model Photos if you have one. You can also send short Demo Movie on CD, DVD or Video Tape describing your new product idea. If you've created a *game, please also send us a PHOTO COPY of your Game Rules, making sure it contains a list of all the components in your game. (Please DO NOT send us one-of-a-kind, original, drawings or models at this time.) Once we receive your signed Confidential Nondisclosure Agreement and the copies of your concept materials, we'll evaluate your product idea from a "manufacturer's" perspective, and follow up our evaluation with a phone call or letter outlining the "licensing" issues we've found that impact, both, positively and negatively on your concept's potential with our manufacturing clients. If your idea has merit, we'll ask you to submit your original drawings and models. Once we receive them, we'll schedule a second review and/or play test, at no additional cost to you, to evaluate any and all "consumer-related" issues. At that time, we will also confirm your concept material's suitability for presentation to our manufacturing clients.
(Please Note: 1. We do not accept concept submissions as attachments to e-mail letters without prior approval. 2. PLEASE, and we're begging here, do not send us your concept submission packed in styrene foam "pop corn" packaging material. Bubble wrap works much better, and it doesn't stick to everything in our studio. Thanks, in advance, for this courtesy.)
Lastly: We would like to keep the copies of the concept materials you send us in our files, along with the notes from our evaluation. If you'd like them returned, please enclose the appropriate packaging and postage, and we'll be happy to return them.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * A Special Note to Game Inventors with Board Games, Word Games, and Classic Strategy Games: Please keep in mind that these games can be very difficult to license to major game companies. There have been a lot of them USA marketplace over the last 75 years, and game companies are looking for new games that contain a significant amount of play pattern innovation, in combination with unique and innovative game components. With regard to word games and classic strategy games, they are, also, currently game categories of limited interest. Submissions in these game categories have to contain a high level of new product feature and play innovation.
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If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please don't hesitate to let us know.
Paul A. Lapidus, IDSA
NewFuntiers
1936 Balzac Court
Redding, CA 96003 USA
800 846-0701 or 530 223-3330 Fax: 530 223-3033 Email:Paul_Lapidus@newfuntiers.com
If you wish to call us, our business phone hours are between 9:30 AM and 3:00 PM, Pacific Time in the U.S., Monday through Friday.
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