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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 [...]
By Jack Lander We love to think of ourselves as creators of original ideas. Most of the time we are merely tuning in on the concepts of others. But we’re in good company when we reinvent the wheel. Did Edison invent the light bulb? He invented one version of it. Sir Humphrey Davy invented the [...]
. Tonight on Got Invention Radio … Thomas J. Colson – the president and CEO of IP.com, an intellectual property law firm based in Amherst, N.Y. He also is a registered patent attorney with extensive experience in prosecution and litigation. As an inventor in his own right, his credits include holding five U.S. patents associated [...]
on the Patent Prosecution Highway By Christopher Ma, Robert Kinberg and Steven Schwarz Obtaining a patent in multiple countries is a little bit easier these days thanks to the Patent Prosecution Highway program – an agreement among the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and numerous nations. Typically, securing a patent in multiple countries can be [...]
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office requested a $2.71 billion budget for 2012, a 16 percent increase from the previous year. The patent office says the 2012 budget “will contribute to America’s innovation economy and promote economic growth and competitiveness by cutting the average overall processing time of a patent application from 35 months to [...]
. ‘Innovation Simplified’ with NventNode New online software service helps create, track & polish ideas By Mike Drummond Independent inventors seeking to pop into the 21st century may want to throw away their notebooks and log onto NventNode. NventNode is an inventor’s notebook meets online-product-development-guide tailor made for the modern Edison and the age of [...]
Insights into Trade Secrets By Randy Kazmierski If you run a business, chances are you possess trade secrets – intellectual property in the form of financial data, engineering techniques, designs, formulas, business strategies and other proprietary information. In today’s highly mobile workforce, when employees change jobs with increasing frequency, it can be a challenge to [...]
The United States Patent and Trademark Office introduced two online discussion tools designed to solicit input from the intellectual property community on how the USPTO can update and improve the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) and Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (TMEP). “The objective is to ensure that the MPEP and TMEP are as [...]
How to Profit from Your Patents By Andrea Dick The lackluster economy and lingering credit crunch makes it hard for small companies and individual inventors to raise money for product development or growth. Yet those with U.S. or foreign patents may be sitting on valuable assets that can generate working capital or cash for other [...]
Registered patent agent Kevin Prince founded QuickPatents in 2005 to meet the needs of the independent inventor who needs low-cost, yet high-quality, intellectual property work. He’s an engineer (UC Berkeley, 1988), inventor, and co-founder of the Inventor’s Forum in 1990, a non-profit inventor assistance group in Orange County, Calif. Listen and chat live with him [...]
