Look for us next week at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, which is hosting its 14th Annual Independent Inventors Conference Nov. 5-6 at is campus in Alexandria, Va. I’ll be meeting with new USPTO director David...
Read MoreThe United Inventors Association stumbled two weeks ago, when it accepted InventHelp’s offer to send discount membership deals via the company’s e-newsletter. It was a classic public-relations gaffe. InventHelp, an...
Read MoreInventors Digest magazine selected the four winners of its national and Carolinas youth innovation essay contests, after evaluating some 400 submissions from across the country. We announced the winners last week; we’ve...
Read MoreBy Sarah Katherine Shearin The recession this year killed Saluté Wine & Provisions, an upscale Italian restaurant in Charlotte, N.C. Well-heeled banking executives, the bread-and-butter of the restaurant in the city’s tony...
Read MoreIn 2006, Chicago-based Ocean Tomo launched an ambitious plan – provide a market where inventors, small companies and large corporations could buy and sell patents at open auction, a sort of Sotheby’s for IP. Yet after early...
Read MoreThe Lemelson-MIT Program today announced 15 teams of high school students, teachers and mentors selected to participate in the 2009–2010 InvenTeam initiative. The teams will pursue year-long invention projects and be provided...
Read MoreBy Jack Lander When it comes to tooling parts, three main principles apply: Tooling is available in a range of options based on quality and cost. Each option fits a total anticipated lifetime quantity of parts to be produced....
Read MoreThe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, under the leadership of new head and former IBM-er David Kappos, is rolling back some of the more onerous policies advanced under the former regime. We couldn’t be happier to see...
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