10-Year-Old Creates College Football App
January 4th, 2012
First & Goal A fifth-grader from North Florida has released a college football app for iPhones. An avid college football fan, 10 year-old Jack Templeton came up with the idea for a college football roster app when he received an iTouch for his birthday. The 99-cent app provides users with all 120 Division I college [...]
Food for Thought
January 3rd, 2012
Crabgrass, Vegan Eggs and Package-less Orange Juice Homaro Cantu’s Recipe to Change the Way We Eat By Mike Drummond Celebrity chef Homaro Cantu would rather tinker with lasers, ultrasound and liquid nitrogen than talk haute cuisine and name drop. Despite the fact he and sidekick pastry chef Ben Roche had a cooking show called Future [...]
Winning Strategies for Wider Exposure
December 28th, 2011
By Jennipher Adkins Every self-respecting inventor with a product to sell should be searchable on YouTube, ebay, Amazon, Facebook and Twitter. However, serious players also will post their products on targeted sites frequented by retail buyers, innovation companies and licensing groups. TheProductNetwork.com is “where inventors and consumers unite.” With a high ranking on Google, the [...]
New Inventions from Inventors
December 27th, 2011
Every month, Inventors Digest features new inventions from independent inventors in our Under the Radar section. Get your invention in the magazine; email info@inventorsdigest.com. Put “Radar” in the subject. Spot Me Scott Naidus of Manchester, N.H., has been inventing for some 15 years and has two patents so far. The fitness-industry consultant has practiced what [...]
A Flock of Angry Birds
December 23rd, 2011
How the Crowd Can Help Find Prior Art By Cheryl Milone Prior art research is playing an increasingly important role for companies and inventors with potential exposure to intellectual property litigation. Millions of dollars in legal expenses are being spent to understand the true value of patents. In some cases, entire industries are threatened by [...]
Five Questions With … Val Valgardson
December 21st, 2011
Val Valgardson is the technical director at Suburban Artworks, which specializes in 3D product imaging. The company has built a reputation producing top-notch virtual prototypes, 3D illustrations, architectural renderings, 3D floor plans, animations, product images, sell sheets, webpages and logos. Suburban Artworks can turn your cocktail napkin sketch into a professional 3D drawing. We talked with Val [...]
Rev Your 3D Software Engines
December 20th, 2011
By James Richardson A hundred years ago if you wanted to make a prototype, you broke out your hammer, chisel, lumber, metal, forge and other brawny hardware. Today, you use a keyboard and a mouse. Although 3D modeling software has been around for many years, it was very expensive and used mainly by large corporations. [...]
Do-It-Yourself Patent-Infringement Policing
December 14th, 2011
It turns out Rich Holmes, assistant general counsel for Edison Nation, didn’t need his law degree to fight knock-off operations that were trafficking in one of the company’s top-selling products, the Gyro Bowl. This year Holmes discovered shady Chinese manufacturers selling cheap imitations of the Gyro Bowl on eBay and Alibaba. “I saw a photo [...]
Patent Reform Fails to Halt Fee Diversion
December 12th, 2011
That Giant Sucking Sound The America Invents Act approved in September directly affects independent inventors and patent filers of all stripes. We examine how the new law alters the playing field – and what you need to know to avoid new pitfalls and take advantage of new opportunities. By Joshua Nightingale Despite the America Invents [...]
Patent Law Takes Out ‘False Marking’ Trolls
December 9th, 2011Aftershocks of the America Invents Act The America Invents Act approved in September directly affects independent inventors and patent filers of all stripes. We examine how the new law alters the playing field – and what you need to know to avoid new pitfalls and take advantage of new opportunities. By Robert M. Bryan and [...]
