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Monthly Archives: September 2009

Patent Search

By Audrey | Published: September 28, 2009
Why Search? A Patent Search is a search of the prior art, namely, that which is known and already invented.  A patent search is important because it can not only save an applicant the expense of filing a patent application on subject matter already patented or within the public domain, but also afford an applicant [...]
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Fail Often to Succeed Sooner!

By Audrey | Published: September 21, 2009
I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process. –  Thomas Alva Edison Canadian inventors Chris Haney, Scott Abbott and John Haney struggled with the board game Trivial Pursuit. While it only took them 45 minutes to create the conceive, they lost $45,000 trying to market it in over four years before [...]
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What is NOT Patentable?

By Audrey | Published: September 17, 2009
As discussed in the previous post, an invention is only patentable if it is Novel, Useful and Not Obvious. Additionally, it must be adequately described or otherwise enabled in a patent application, and claimed by the inventor in a patent application in clear and definite terms.  The Supreme Court has stated that anything under the [...]
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What makes an Invention Patentable?

By Audrey | Published: September 12, 2009
There are three major requirements for patentability: The invention must be Novel, Useful and Not Obvious.  Lets take a closer look at each of these criteria: Novelty To start with; in order to be considered patentable, an invention must be “Novel”.  This means that the invention was never described in a publication, used  or for [...]
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New Technology: Bridging the Gaps to the Digital World

By Audrey | Published: September 9, 2009
Today, we are going to take a look at some of the new technology that is on its way into the market place and into your life. SixthSense We will start off with ‘SixthSense’, a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures [...]
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The Magic of Innovation – part 2

By Audrey | Published: September 5, 2009
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” –Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel Prize 1937   Welcome back to our series on the Magic of Innovation.  In this installment, we will be discussing growing and developing an idea or invention.  If you missed out on part one where we talked about [...]
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The Magic of Innovation

By Audrey | Published: September 2, 2009
In the words of Albert Einstein:  “For an idea that does not at first seem insane, there is no hope.”  In this two part series, we are going to take a look at the Process of Inventing, including; what exactly is an “Invention”, where do the ideas come from, and some ways to grow and [...]
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