Posts Tagged: invention
Understanding Substitutes: Is your invention desirable to consumers?
Frequently one of the most challenging aspects of inventing is determining what need a particular invention fills. This is not to suggest that inventors do not know …
Inventorship 101: Who are Inventors and Joint Inventors?
Inventorship is one of the most fundamental concepts in patent law. Of course, fundamental does not mean easy or uncomplicated. Patents are granted to inventors, which is …
AUTM Licensing Survey: Ominous trend likely attributable to eroding patent rights
Concerns about the ability of academic institutions to keep contributing to the U.S. innovation economy go well beyond federal funding stagnation according to the recent AUTM …
10 Critical Pieces of Advice for Inventors
There really is no one-size-fits-all approach inventors can follow, and there is no inventing roadmap to success that will work in all cases. Notwithstanding, there are certainly …
Advice for Young Inventors
Inventing success for young inventors comes when they are passionate, inspired and dedicated, which is not unlike success in all areas of life... While passion is required, …
Securing Ownership Rights in Patents in the Real World
The basement inventor is increasingly rare, although I am old enough (and lucky enough) to know several. Invention in the “real world” is often a messy, team …
FTC wins preliminary injunction against operators of World Patent Marketing
At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida has issued a preliminary injunction against World Patent …
How to Create Patent Rights
Intellectual property is distinguished from “real property” because the property itself exists in our heads and needs to be “created” through a process of description and examination. …
Turning Your Idea into an Invention
Like anything in life that is new, whether it be returning to exercise after a lengthy hiatus or learning a new language, you have to walk before …
Academic Patent Licensing Helps Drive the U.S. Economy
What's even more impressive is the impacts on gross industry output and GDP are up 14% while the number of U.S. jobs supported rose 12% since the previous …
Invention to Patent 101 – Everything You Need to Know to Get Started
This page and website contain contain detailed information to help inventors on the road from invention to patent... Below are a sampling of inventor help links to …
Inventing Strategy 101: Laying the Foundation for Business Success
Inventors know very well what they have invented and what they plan to do with their invention. But the typical inventor has a terrible sense of what …
Opening Pandora’s Box in an Age of Artificial Intelligence Innovation
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is coming for your job. But is it coming for the job of your photographer or inventor? The driver-less cars, automated factories, and automated …
Inventing 101: Protecting Your Invention When You Need Help
Once you get that first provisional patent application filed you are ready to approach others for assistance with your invention. You have a measure of protection, but …
Inventing to Solve Problems
Sometimes inventors get so caught up in the creation aspect of inventing that they fail to stop and ask whether they should be investing the time, money …
