AbsolutelyNew Blog: Vermont. Yes, Vermont! At least that’s what Forbes magazine says, if you measure inventiveness based on states’ patents per capita — in other words, each state’s number of patents relative to its population size. And what states round out the top 5? 2. Idaho 3. Washington 4. California 5. Massachusetts Of course, these […]
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Associated Press: Got a bright business idea? Take a number. Americans haven’t stopped dreaming up newfangled gizmos or sketching engineering marvels on the back of cocktail napkins, but tight credit and business cutbacks have slowed the pace of getting the latest U.S. innovations to market. Venture capital investments have plummeted. Lenders aren’t lining up to
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The Sydney Morning Herald: He has been called a “born creative thinker” and “a man of extraordinarily high principle”. Others consider his inventions frivolous and derivative. Not that Frederick Bailier Richardson III – aka Ric Richardson – particularly cares. As of last week, the 47-year-old inventor, surfer and one-time dirt-biker stands to reap the lion’s
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Patently-O: Patent Attorney Mark Bergner provided the following five points that may help independent inventors control the cost of their patent application. 1) Provide me with the best write-up that you can up front with some illustrative (even hand-sketched) diagrams, along with any design documents you may have. 2) Try to do as much of
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Fast Company: Innovators don’t invent all by themselves: To paraphrase Isaac Newton, great inventors see further than others because they stand on the shoulders of giants. Researchers at the Center for Technology Assessment hope to use that insight to clear out the enormous blacklog of U.S. patent applications, which is stifling American innovation simply because
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SCORE: 1. The first thing to do with a new idea is to get a patent. 2. If my product has not been on the market before, I can patent it. 3. Having a patent stops others from copying or imitating my product. 4. Getting a patent is something I can do quickly, at low
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Zyrist Blog: Zyrist launches a range of new services and solutions for both Innovator Companies and Individual Inventors to facilitate buying, selling, licensing of Patents across the globe. Not only can users list their patents for licensing but for a variety of reasons including exploring partnership opportunities, in search of service providers or simply to
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IPWatchdog: Increasingly on the Internet, invention advertising is taking an odd and seemingly inexplicable turn toward advising independent inventors to not seek patent protection, which is undeniably bad advice that will undoubtedly cause much disappointment and heart break for those who actually follow it. But why is it that you are starting to see more
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Up And Running: First, the global view: You’re rowing upstream. You’re facing several real problems. 1. First, the real value in business isn’t the idea but rather the building of the company to create, market, sell and manage the idea. That’s where the money is. 2. Second, ideas are very hard to sell as just
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The New York Times: Flash of Genius” is a doggedly workmanlike variation of an old story: the lone crusader doing battle with the big bad establishment. Picture Jimmy Stewart as a passionately outraged everyman speaking truth to power, then take away the passion. What gives the movie a frisson of freshness is that the little
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