Robert Lemelson is co-vice president and secretary of The Lemelson Foundation, founded by his father, the late prolific inventor and patent holder Jerome Lemelson. Rob is an anthropologist who received his master’s from the...
Read MoreJohn Calvert, administrator of the Inventors Assistance Program at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and USPTO Special Programs Advisor Mindy Bickel are here this evening to talk about new programs the office has to help...
Read MoreInventors of Digital Camera, Bar Code, Industrial Robot, Defibrillator Batteries Are Among Class of 2011 Continuing to celebrate its mission of recognizing and fostering invention, the National Inventors Hall of Fame recently...
Read MoreUnder the leadership of Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) and Ranking Minority Member Charles Grassley (R-IA), the Senate, by a landslide vote of 95-5, approved a bill that includes adoption of a first-inventor-to-file patent...
Read MoreThe FIRST LEGO League Global Innovation Award is designed to get FLL teams excited about further developing their “Body Forward Projects.” The deadline for online voting for the teams has been extended to 5 p.m. EST, March 18....
Read MoreWhat do you get when you cross a mouse with a human liver? An award-winning college inventor. Alice Chen, a biomedical engineer and graduate student in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology (HST) and...
Read MoreUSPTO Joins with Smithsonian to Showcase Inventing “The Great American Hall of Wonders” will examine the 19th-century American belief that the people of the United States shared a special genius for innovation. It will explore...
Read MoreNow it was Inventors Digest’s turn to get into the ongoing debate in the U.S. Senate over patent reform, officially known as S. 23. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., cited a letter of support for patent reform from Louis Foreman,...
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