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	<title>Inventors and Entrepreneurs Blog &#187; Audrey</title>
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		<title>Do I need a Patent Attorney to file my Patent?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest questions facing the inventor is whether to hire a Patent Attorney to prepare and file for patent protection for their invention.&#160; To start with, we must first be clear on the rule of law which contain absolutely no requirement that one must have a patent attorney to; file a patent application, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Patentability Searches&#8221; Defined</title>
		<link>http://www.bandacorp.com/blog/what-is-the-difference-in-patentability-searches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bandacorp.com/blog/what-is-the-difference-in-patentability-searches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.&#160; 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 distinctions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protect your Invention</title>
		<link>http://www.bandacorp.com/blog/protect-your-invention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, you have this great idea that you have been tinkering with, but you&#160; haven’t quite ironed out all the wrinkles to where you are ready to file your patent application.&#160; How can you protect against someone else stealing your idea and beating you to the patenting “punch”?&#160; Well, there is one very important premise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation Contests</title>
		<link>http://www.bandacorp.com/blog/innovation-contests/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bandacorp.com/blog/innovation-contests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, we are going to take a look at three multi-million dollar Innovation Contests sponsored by the X PRIZE foundation.&#160; All conceived to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity.&#160; All participants must be primarily privately funded, a model intended to leverage the elements of public interest, entrepreneurial spirit and cross-disciplinary development to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patent Search</title>
		<link>http://www.bandacorp.com/blog/patent-search/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bandacorp.com/blog/patent-search/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Patent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patent Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to patent an idea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to patent an invention]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[obtaining a patent]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[patent analysis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Search? A Patent Search is a search of the prior art, namely, that which is known and already invented.&#160; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fail Often to Succeed Sooner!</title>
		<link>http://www.bandacorp.com/blog/fail-often-to-succeed-sooner/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bandacorp.com/blog/fail-often-to-succeed-sooner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process. &#8211;  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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is NOT Patentable?</title>
		<link>http://www.bandacorp.com/blog/what-is-not-patentable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bandacorp.com/blog/what-is-not-patentable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Invention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copyright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to patent an idea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to patent an invention]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[obtaining a patent]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[patent my invention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trademark]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What makes an Invention Patentable?</title>
		<link>http://www.bandacorp.com/blog/what-makes-an-invention-patentable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bandacorp.com/blog/what-makes-an-invention-patentable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to patent an idea]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;Novel&#8221;.  This means that the invention was never described in a publication, used  or for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Technology: Bridging the Gaps to the Digital World</title>
		<link>http://www.bandacorp.com/blog/new-technology-bridging-the-gaps-to-the-digital-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bandacorp.com/blog/new-technology-bridging-the-gaps-to-the-digital-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sixth Sense]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8216;SixthSense&#8217;, a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Magic of Innovation &#8211; part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.bandacorp.com/blog/the-magic-of-innovation-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bandacorp.com/blog/the-magic-of-innovation-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Invention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patent]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” &#8211;Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel Prize 1937 &#160; Welcome back to our series on the Magic of Innovation.&#160; In this installment, we will be discussing growing and developing an idea or invention.&#160; If you missed out on part one where we talked about [...]]]></description>
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