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“Patentability Searches” Defined
A Patentability Search is the first task on the road to obtaining protection for your invention. Where to go and how to start is the oft asked question. While all Patentability Searches have the general goal of identifying inventions with the same characteristics as the topic of the search (Prior Art), there are certain [...]
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Protect your Invention
So, you have this great idea that you have been tinkering with, but you haven’t quite ironed out all the wrinkles to where you are ready to file your patent application. How can you protect against someone else stealing your idea and beating you to the patenting “punch”? Well, there is one very important [...]
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Innovation Contests
Today, we are going to take a look at three multi-million dollar Innovation Contests sponsored by the X PRIZE foundation. All conceived to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. All participants must be primarily privately funded, a model intended to leverage the elements of public interest, entrepreneurial spirit and cross-disciplinary development to [...]
Patent Search
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 [...]
Fail Often to Succeed Sooner!
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 [...]
What is NOT Patentable?
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 [...]
What makes an Invention Patentable?
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 sale in [...]
New Technology: Bridging the Gaps to the Digital World
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 to interact [...]
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The Magic of Innovation – part 2
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 what actually [...]
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Do I need a Patent Attorney to file my Patent?