He Works Hard for the Money
July 30th, 2010
IPWatchdog’s Quinn Shadows Kappos for a Day
I know it’s vogue in some circles to diss government as bloated, over-reaching, corrupt and even menacing. But to paint all government workers and leaders with such a broad stroke is to throw the tea out with the tea bag, to mangle a metaphor.
Which brings me to David Kappos, [...]
Tonight on Got Invention Radio
July 29th, 2010
Shortly after earning his MBA in entrepreneurial finance from San Diego State University in 2001, Erik Gantz co-founded 1-800-LAS VEGAS, a travel management company dedicated to the city of Las Vegas.
While Gantz was the chief executive officer of 1-800-LAS-VEGAS, the company recruited “Mr. Las Vegas,” Wayne Newton, as its celebrity spokesperson and went public in [...]
Houston, We Have a Program
July 28th, 2010
The Houston Inventors Association and the University of Houston Small Business Development Center is hosting the Fourth Annual Inventors Tradeshow, Wednesday Aug. 11, from 5- 8:30 p.m.
The public is invited to this free event to meet inventors, companies and others from the inventing industry, who will help inventors solve problems and offer business advice.
The partial lineup [...]
IP Pros Named to IPO Education Foundation
July 27th, 2010
The Intellectual Property Owners Association Education Foundation elected three new board members, all with expansive intellectual property bona fides. The new members in alphabetical order are:
Louis Foreman is the founder and chief executive of Enventys, an integrated product design and engineering firm. Foreman is an inventor with 10 U.S. patents. He is th creator of the [...]
Alt-Energy Challenge Deadline Extended
July 26th, 2010
LegalZoom Named as Primary Sponsor
Due to demand, Inventors Digest has extended the deadline for the 2010 Collegiate Alt-Energy Challenge.
The Challenge deadline is now Aug. 31 – running throughout National Inventors Month – giving U.S. college students and teams more time to hone and submit their 2-minute Web videos.
Inventors Digest also is proud to name LegalZoom [...]
Five Questions With Microsoft’s …
July 21st, 2010
Anthony Salcito is one of Microsoft’s more peripatetic execs. As vice president of the company’s Worldwide Public Sector-Education, he’s in Puerto Rico one month, Russia another, and maybe Fresno, Calif., the next. Why? To gain insights on different education systems and, as you might imagine, to drop Microsoft’s technology into the conversations. We caught up [...]
Pitfalls of Provisional Patent Applications
July 20th, 2010
By Jon H. Muskin
As a patent attorney, I cringe every time I hear someone give questionable advice about provisional patent applications.
The advisers are usually those without law degrees. Their recommendations often include filing a self-prepared provisional application and claiming this method benefits the filer in all kinds of ways.
The filing fee is a mere $110, [...]
Trash to Treasure
July 19th, 2010
The PBS television series Design Squad is offering child inventors ages 5-19 a chance to have their inventions professionally prototyped and appear on an upcoming episode.
Seeking to get kids excited about engineering and inventing, the 2010 Trash to Treasure competition challenges kids to take everyday discarded or recycled materials and re-engineer them into functional products.
Three [...]
Tonight on Got Invention Radio
July 15th, 2010
Frustration spurred Tom Patterson’s quest to reinvent men’s undergarments. The founder of Tommy John undershirts appears on Got Invention Radio tonight to share the secrets of his success.
The former medical device salesman thought he could improve the un-tailored generic t-shirt, which failed to flatter men’s bodies. Generic cotton Ts also tend to shrink and develop [...]
Stoking Ideas, Igniting Inventions
July 14th, 2010
Just Say ‘No’ to Rejection
By Ron Komorowski
How long should we really push an invention before giving up and moving on to the next idea?
I guess this is the age-old question dating back to when we started making fire. I can only imagine how many ways our hairy ancestors thought of ways to create fire. Who [...]
