Changing the World One Invention at a Time
August 16th, 2010
Book Review There’s a certain honesty to Changing the World One Invention at a Time: Acting on Your Ideas Using the Creatively Inventing Framework, by Richard Edward Rowe. The book’s goal is to “present the information you need to transform your ideas into patent applications.” And Rowe delivers on that single, focused promise. He doesn’t [...]
What Is Innovation?
August 13th, 2010
A Sit-Down with TED founder Richard Saul Wurman By Mike Drummond I’m seated in a studio with Richard Saul Wurman and the silence is deafening. Wurman is the unlikely founder of TED – the invite-only tech conference that draws the likes of Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Jane Goodall and Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry [...]
Tonight on Got Invention Radio
August 12th, 2010
Get ready for a huge night at Got Invention Radio. Infomercial pioneer and Shark Tank investor/panelist Kevin Harrington is in the house. Tune in to Got Invention Radio Presented By Inventors Digest, 8 p.m. EST/5 p.m. PST at www.gotinvention.com Call in to during the show at 877.474.3302 or e-mail host Brian Fried at brian@gotinvention.com Harrington has served [...]
Update – Prez Signs USPTO Funding Law
August 11th, 2010
Patent Office Obtains Fee-Setting Authority President Barack Obama signed into law P.L. 111-224 that gives the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) the authority to spend an additional $129 million of the fees the agency will collect in Fiscal Year (FY) 2010. Due to an improving economy and increased patent examination productivity, the agency [...]
Your Best Option May Be Catalogs
August 11th, 2010
A cheaper, faster way to that first sell By Jack Lander In its early days, a product is often relatively expensive to produce and it lacks the history of growing sales that is essential to get to first base with chain store buyers. So, how do we get sales started? And how do we get [...]
Born in the USA
August 10th, 2010
A Salute to 4 Founding Fathers, 4 Inventors By Paul Niemann In 1776, while working for American independence from England, Benjamin Franklin said, “Indeed we must all hang together, otherwise we will hang separately.” The penalty for treason against the British was, of course, death by hanging. Franklin was willing to put his neck on the [...]
Johns Hopkins Takes Grand Biomedical Prize
August 9th, 2010
A team from Johns Hopkins University recently earned first place and $10,000 in the sixth annual Biomedical Engineering Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship competition. The team’s Rapid Hypothermia Induction Device lets emergency or ambulance personnel quickly and safely administer a therapeutic hypothermia treatment to patients and improve their chances of survival. The BMEidea competition is open to member [...]
Inventors Digest Debuts iPad Version
August 5th, 2010
Release Arrives During National Inventors Month Inventors Digest is now available on the iPad for free through the iTunes App Store. The full-color tablet edition – released during National Inventors Month – offers readers another way to experience the magazine’s best-of-breed content in all its print-design glory. The Inventors Digest iPad version with its simple, [...]
A Letter from Kappos
August 5th, 2010
This week the Senate passed H.R. 5874 to increase the Fiscal Year 2010 spending authority for the USPTO by $129 million, and we expect the President to sign the bill into law shortly. This action reflects the recognition on the part of the Administration and the Congress of the vital role our Agency plays in supporting innovation [...]
Immigrant. Inventor. American Dreamer.
August 4th, 2010
With the help of Edison Nation, Michael Diep’s Emery Cat clawed its way to success By Mike Drummond Bullets from pursuing government troops zipped overhead, missing Michael Diep as he, his father, mother and younger brother fled. A man who took their money and promised to help them cross the border never showed – again. [...]
