Another name for creativity is 'invention'
Why should we know about patents, the friend of invention?
The world needs creative people!

A unique career path book for teenagers who want to excel has been published, "Teenagers Who Know a Little About Inventions and Patents."
The latest career trend and key keyword is ‘creativity.’
Competitive universities and companies want to recruit creative talent.
In that respect, 'inventions' and 'patents' that can show off your creativity, which is your unique strength, are the most powerful self-introductions and become an excellent competitive edge.

Why should we learn to invent? The reason is that the world we will live in desperately needs creative talent, and invention is the culmination of this creativity.
Inventions don't have set problems or answers.
(…) Creative thinking creates new jobs for businesses and society, and also provides a foundation for dramatically improving seemingly impossible problems.
Additionally, original ideas are protected under the name of intellectual property rights and can become intangible assets.
_ From the prologue

The author emphasizes that inventions and patents are fields that were difficult to understand because they were unknown to the author, but are actually very easy and fun to learn.
This book is designed to help you learn the process of how to turn a random idea into an invention and obtain a patent, in an easy and fun way.
This book contains practical, up-to-date information, including what specific inventions are patentable, the patent examination process and criteria, invention contests for teenagers and how to prepare for them, and four ways to make money with patents. It is filled with detailed, helpful information and adorable illustrations.
In addition to patents, it also contains useful information on recently popular topics such as trademarks, design rights, and copyrights, allowing us to more wisely prepare for the coming era of intellectual property rights.

In fact, I think the reason we find invention difficult is because we haven't had many opportunities to properly experience it.
When we hear the word 'invention', we only see and hear about the great achievements of genius inventors like Edison and Steve Jobs, so we naturally think that invention is something that only people with very special talents and advanced knowledge can do, and so we never had any interest in it.
Invention is much more about how you approach a problem from a different perspective than how much knowledge you have.
---From "Can you invent even if you're not good at math or science?"

The invention that we should pay attention to is the improvement invention.
An improvement invention is an invention that improves an existing product or method to create a new effect that did not exist before. It is also called a utilization invention.
Since all objects around us are the subject, the materials are also infinite, and it is an invention that anyone can easily approach without any special expertise.
Therefore, if we redefine invention from the perspective of improved invention, we can say, 'Even if you find an inconvenience and make it convenient, it is an invention.'
In fact, most inventions and patents made in modern times can be considered as improvement inventions.
---From "Inventions That Become So Easy Once You Understand Them"

The purpose of patents in the Patent Act is clearly stated as ‘to promote national industrial development by protecting and encouraging inventions.’
Here, it is necessary to understand the part that says 'to promote industrial development'. Patents are required to disclose the contents of the invention to the public after one year and six months from the date of application.
In other words, if I keep the details of my invention hidden in a place where only I know, I cannot get a patent.
---From "What is a patent?"

Intellectual property rights can be broadly divided into industrial property rights, copyrights, and new intellectual property rights.
Industrial property rights are an area that protects intellectual creations that are used or have the potential to be used in industry, and are comprised of four types: patent rights, utility model rights, design rights, and trademark rights.
Among these, the most well-known 'patent' is also called a great invention, and it refers to protecting highly sophisticated inventions.
---From "What on earth are intellectual property rights?"

Companies are starting to introduce a teaching system for invention principles called 'TRIZ'.
TRIZ can be seen as a theory that suggests a direction for finding a solution.
It can also be seen as a methodology related to invention, systematizing common characteristics that appear in creative inventions.
(…) Many companies are finding answers to the contemporary challenge of ‘innovation’ in TRIZ and are using it to find ideas necessary for cost reduction, product value enhancement, and patent avoidance.

---From "Even large corporations learn the principles of invention?"