Posts Tagged: invention
Beyond the Slice and Dice: Turning Your Idea into an Invention
The patent process actually starts well before you file a patent application or seek assistance from a patent attorney. Every patent application starts with an invention, and …
Moving from Idea to Patent: When Do You Have an Invention?
When you are moving from idea to invention to patent, regardless of how or why you find yourself stuck in the idea phase, the first order of …
Protection Strategies for Growth-Phase Companies
When it comes to the IP rights of your competitors, what you don’t know can hurt you. As your company brings new products to the marketplace, …
The Death of Invention
George Santayana is attributed with the aphorism: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This is modern § 101 in a nutshell. Every horror we …
Investing in Inventing: A Patent Process Primer for Startups
The patent process is long and complex, but well worth the effort if it means protecting your invention and your new company. Key decisions made along the …
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 …
