Pitching a Trademark Idea - The Brick Wall

zackary71

Hi. Hope someone can offer some advice please.  I have a short slogan Trademark registered in UK, with further applications filed in USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and China. It's a one-off idea that I''m seeking to bring to market under a License Agreement. I have no desire to produce it myself and don't fancy going on Dragons Den to ask for £1 million in return for 1% of the business. 
I'm finding it impossible to get in contact with the right people to pitch what is a 5 -6 minute 'vision'. Ideally it would be to a major household-name manufacturer in the UK, who have their own online shop presence and who also sell into department stores and supermarkets. Similarly,  a company who has major presence in the North America market. 
I've tried Linkedin, with messages going unanswered. Direct emails to customer services don't result in getting any further forward. Appreciate any advice on next steps.

DullGreyGuy

Its impossible to know how good your targeting is being but I'm a transaction manager in the world of insurance and yet get 3-4 LinkedIn messages a day for things like building security and video conferencing infrastructure.

I'd personally more try emailing the people than LinkedIn messages, it's not hard to find the corporate email address structure (obv most are firstname.surname@domain.com). Still many will just be deleted as spam but work emails are looked at more consistently than online messages. 

Bringing a new product to market is expensive and high risk for a massive manufacturer and so either its got to be an exceptional idea that they cannot think of a reasonable way to bypass the trademark or you may have more luck with a smaller more targeted company 

Savvy_Sue

I have absolutely no knowledge or experience in this area, but I'm just wondering if it's worth approaching the companies who show videos of their 'wonder product' in hardware stores and department stores. I'm thinking of Dyas as one example, and I can't say I've seen any lately but then I haven't done much shopping lately.