Previous Patents
Existing Products
Potential Market
The available market for our product is the total number of restaurants in the USA. The exact number is unclear, but it is about 1 million restaurants in the US. Our potential market would be about 1.666% of the market because there are from my research about 60 companies in the market of solving our same problem. These companies include ones selling products like coolers and containers, but also ones that created chemicals/preservatives that keep fruit from spoiling.
Individual Summary
From our research in Part B, we were able to find previous patents and products that solve our problem in various ways. To find the patents that already exist, we searched on Google Patents. To find competing products, we searched on amazon to find bigger companies, and searched on kickstarter, and other crowdfunding websites to find lesser known products. The solutions we found are descent solutions, but they have flaws including being to big, not keeping the fruit cold enough, and being too expensive.