Many of us know Joy Mangano from the movie "Joy". In fact, she is a woman who fights for patents for her inventions, fights patent infringement, and ultimately wins her own battle with her success.
Joy Mangano was born on February 15, 1956 in New York. Joy, who likes to dream and invent new things, invents a collar with a quick release and reflector system at the age of 16. It is known that she designed this invention after her beloved dog Mitzy suffered from drowning several times. Unfortunately, it was not registered that Joy invented this collar. At that time, neither she nor her family had any knowledge of patents.
It can be said that the creative spirit of Joy Mangano, who graduated from high school with the first place, has been eroded later on. Because the problematic relationship between her parents hindered her creativity.
When the calendars showed the 70s, the paths of musician Tony Mirane and Joy crossed. Influenced by each other, the couple decided to get married. However, the relationship ended in 1989 due to Tony's frivolous and irresponsible character. Joy Mangano, who studied business administration at the university, had three children in this process. She worked as a night waitress to take care of her three children, and worked for the airline on the weekends. While the endless housework strained Mangano's patience, she made an invention that would change her destiny, just in this period. She first drew the mop he named “Miracle Mop” on her daughter's drawing book with dry crayons. She then wrapped ninety fiber threads with her hands, without the aid of a machine. So the her first prototype was ready now.
Promoting and marketing the Miracle Mop was more difficult than she expected. She signed with a home shopping channel called QVC. In the evening, during peak hours, Miracle Mop would be presented to the public by experienced marketers. However, nothing turned out as Joy expected. The program was interrupted because of the marketer who did not fully understand how to use the Miracle Mop. It wasn't just the program that was interrupted but the dreams of Joy and her family.
Later, on the same channel, she had the opportunity to promote Miracle Mop herself and succeeded; 18,000 broomsticks had already been sold in twenty minutes! They could not keep up with the successive orders and were always producing more. But Joy's struggle had not yet come to a happy ending. The factory where Miracle Mop was produced copied Joy's drawings and produced counterfeit products. On top of all this, she was misled for the patent registration of Miracle Mop.
She realized that she couldn't trust anyone, so she decided to figure this out on her own. She read all contracts, patent registration processes, patent infringement, precedents over and over again. She won all rights to Miracle Mop by challenging the middlemen who scammed her. Everything would be different now…
Joy has repeatedly read all contracts, patent registration processes, patent infringement, precedents. She won all rights to Miracle Mop by challenging the middlemen who scammed her.
Joy Mangano, who founded her own company; It has a total of 89 inventions in different fields such as triangular shaped head for ship, expandable multi-compartment suitcase, accessory bar for belt and tie, cool wine glass, hanger expansion hook and so on.