Posts Tagged: inventing
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 …
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, …
America innovates most when government stands behind a stable property rights regime
America innovates most when property rights are stable and government gets out of the way so risk takers can dream the impossible and then go accomplish those …
Increasing Number of Women Patent Holders Can Spur U.S. Innovation, Grow the Economy
On Thursday, December 1, I attended the Innovation Alliance's panel on Closing the Patent Gender Gap: How Increasing the Number of Women Patent Holders Can Spur U.S. …
Canada is underestimated as a patent filing country for US applicants
Even with its relatively small population, Canada is the largest export market for the US, with about 200 billion dollars worth of exports each year. Exporting to Canada …
Invention Harvesting: Best Practices for Turning Aspiration into Action
Invention harvesting can be leveraged in the context of active development projects to ensure that valuable project-related intellectual property (IP) is duly protected. Significantly, invention harvesting also …
Patent Strategy: Laying the Foundation for Business Success
Patents provide a competitive advantage, and those sophisticated in business know enough to look for and exploit whatever competitive advantage exists. Patents are the 800 pound gorilla of …
Maximizing innovation requires a strong patent system
If a weak patent system were the answer you would expect countries that have a weak patent system, or no patent system at all, to have run …
Limitless range of 3D printing applications fuels rapid industry growth
There’s almost no limit to the range of practical items that could be created through 3D printing equipment. A team of chemical researchers working at the …
Plausibly estimating the market for your invention
There is nothing wrong with dreaming, but there is an extremely important cautionary tale to be told about the tremendous harm that can be done to opportunity …
A beginner’s guide to patents and the patent process
Whether you are an independent inventor, an fledgling entrepreneur or a seasoned inventor who is going out on your own for the first time, the best thing …
Every invention starts with an idea
The truth is you cannot patent or protect an idea or a concept. However, it is also an undeniable truth that all inventions start with an idea, …
Dark Days Ahead: The Patent Pendulum
All of this can really be traced all the way back to the flash of creative genius test by the Supreme Court, which Congress specifically outlawed in …
John Calvert, A Champion for Indepenent Inventors
John Calvert, a twenty-four year veteran of the USPTO, retired in June 2014. If you are in the independent inventor or product commercialization communities you undoubtedly know Calvert. …
