On Thursday, November 4, 2010, I attended the 15th Annual Inventors Conference at the USPTO. In my article Reporting from the 15th Annual USPTO Inventors Conference I discussed the morning sessions and lunch speaker, for day one of the conference. After lunch, and a panel discussion of the morning speakers, the attendees of the conference went into two sets of…
Invention promotion firms, sometimes referred to as invention promotion companies, have been widely criticized in numerous circles, including political circles in Washington, DC, for many years. The American Inventors Protection Act (AIPA) was enacted into law in 1999 and by its very name sought to address head on the problems faced by so many inventors. In truth, the title of…