Making a snowman seems simple enough. You roll the balls of snow around until they are the size you want, and you stack them. Once they’re stacked, decorate your new snowman as you see fit. However, one inventor has decided his frosty deserves to be patented. In the patent application Ignacio Marc Asperas from Melville, […]
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Jock Gear Headgear combined with binoculars, a headset, and a fan. Where’s the TiVo? Bulletproof Desk Invention relates generally to personal assault protection for those in vulnerable environments such as school rooms. Don’t taz me, bro! Leaf Chaps Invention consists of modified pants or trousers fitted with a net between the leg stalls so that
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Mario P. DiForte, an inventor, is battling heart problems so he has decided to give away some of his patents. Of course, he isn’t handing them off to just anyone reports The Baltimore Sun. The catch: DiForte says he will hand over patents, including pending and provisional ones, on 22 products to “legitimate” companies only
Jon Muskin, writing on Inventor Digest, explains that there’s no such thing as a provisional patent, and other mistakes contests make on Shark Tank: Contestants frequently make the same mistake which annoys me every time. The sharks commonly ask the contestants whether they have a patent on their invention. The contestant frequently replies with, “I
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In this edition of Inventor’s Journal, Rich Whittle teams up with MIT Libraries to learn what a patent is and why patents can be important to your research. If you’re interested in viewing the rest of the video tutorials, use the links below. These videos were produced by MIT Libraries and we use them under
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Forbes: A recent exploration of the U.S. Patent Office’s searchable database unearths a wide range of patents held by big-name tech chiefs. Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer has one. Oracle’s Larry Ellison has four, Google’s Larry Page has six, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has nine. The late Steve Jobs won more than 300 patents during his lifetime
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Samuel Morse may have come long before the invention of the Internet, but that didn’t stop him from trying to patent the basic idea behind it, reports The Wall Street Journal. This would have been a patent for all uses of the telegraph—and would also have included the Internet. The 19th-century justices refused to block
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The Sacramento Bee: The number of women obtaining patents has grown at an accelerating rate over the past 35 years and in numbers considerably higher than previously reported, a new study commissioned by the National Women’s Business Council (NWBC) has found. The largest spike came in 2010, when 22,984 patents were granted to women, a
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There has been a lot of talk about patent reform and how it will change from a first-to-invent form to first-to-file. AJC looks at some of the other major elements involved in the reform. Gives the Patent and Trade Office more authority to set fees and keep the fees it collects so that it has
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Last year on this day, Rich Whittle explained the seven easy steps for getting a provisional patent on Inventor’s Journal. Video below.
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