Posts Tagged: "hollywood"

Hollywood Patents: Inventions from 12 Celebrity Inventors

How many Hollywood celebrities were inventors? Below is our list of the most interesting inventions from a number of well known actors and directors… Action figures of movie star icons and heroes have been treasured by kids for decades now. George Lucas isn’t the first filmmaker to improve his wealth through merchandising, but this design patent, issued by the USPTO in April 1982, is just one of more than 20 design patents for toy figures that the filmmaker’s Lucasfilm company has been assigned.

Verizon Says NO to Hollywood

Recently Hollywood executives approached both AT&T and Verizon to seek their help in preventing piracy over their networks.  According to a New York Times article, AT&T is working with the entertainment industry to figure out how to identify illegally copied material that is being transmitted over its broadband network.  Verizon, on the other hand, said — NO — we are…