The Intellectual Property Owners Association Education Foundation elected three new board members, all with expansive intellectual property bona fides. The new members in alphabetical order are: Louis Foreman is the founder and...
Read MoreLegalZoom Named as Primary Sponsor Due to demand, Inventors Digest has extended the deadline for the 2010 Collegiate Alt-Energy Challenge. The Challenge deadline is now Aug. 31 – running throughout National Inventors Month – ...
Read MoreAnthony Salcito is one of Microsoft’s more peripatetic execs. As vice president of the company’s Worldwide Public Sector-Education, he’s in Puerto Rico one month, Russia another, and maybe Fresno, Calif., the next. Why? To gain...
Read MoreBy Jon H. Muskin As a patent attorney, I cringe every time I hear someone give questionable advice about provisional patent applications. The advisers are usually those without law degrees. Their recommendations often include...
Read MoreThe PBS television series Design Squad is offering child inventors ages 5-19 a chance to have their inventions professionally prototyped and appear on an upcoming episode. Seeking to get kids excited about engineering and...
Read MoreFrustration spurred Tom Patterson’s quest to reinvent men’s undergarments. The founder of Tommy John undershirts appears on Got Invention Radio tonight to share the secrets of his success. The former medical device salesman...
Read MoreJust Say ‘No’ to Rejection By Ron Komorowski How long should we really push an invention before giving up and moving on to the next idea? I guess this is the age-old question dating back to when we started making fire. I can...
Read MoreBy Gene Quinn Over the last few months, I’ve chatted with several giants in the patent world – industry leaders who revere the concept of intellectual property, but have deep concerns with the existing patent system. To one...
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