Category: Featured

The Cupcake Rack inventor overcomes the heartbreaks of inventing—and life—with help from friends.
“I didn’t have a leg to stand on! I was horrified, it was Christmastime, everyone was on vacation, and I was bawling my eyes out every single day.” —Liz Crouch
A neurosurgeon told family members there was no hope; her infant grandson’s brain was swelling, his skull fractured, a leg broken.

How to make your own breaks as an inventor.
One of the biggest mistakes you can make as an inventor is to have expectations of someone you don’t know. That’s not only unfair to them, it’s unfair to you.
Try to make connections and appointments before you go to a trade show. Then you’re different from most of the attendees because your contacts will be expecting to see you.

Team’s wearable device provides comfort, can save natural resources.
“What we discovered was that there are two dimensions of temperature”—what a thermostat is set to, and how that feels.
—Sam Shames, Embr Labs CTO

Photographer wants SCOTUS to take up his case against Nike.
The image features Michael Jordan in mid-air and flying toward a basketball hoop with his left arm and both legs outstretched.

10 questions with Mary Boney Denison, USPTO commissioner for trademarks.

USPTO has been a source of historic anticipation, action in 2018.
IP experts were cautiously optimistic after Andrei Iancu was named director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office but said action would be the true barometer of progress. They didn’t have to wait long.
Revised standard operating procedures for the Patent Trial and Appeal Board were hailed as likely “game-changing.”

The Inventors Digest website was reworked a couple years ago — streamlined and...

Trends show more liquidity for enforcing good patents. New buyers who were not even in this market a year ago have specific needs and are ready to pay cash for the right assets.

Biomedical engineer makes soft robotics understandable.