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	<title>Inventors and Entrepreneurs Blog &#187; Innovation</title>
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		<title>Protect your Invention</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey</dc:creator>
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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>Fail Often to Succeed Sooner!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey</dc:creator>
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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 makes an Invention Patentable?</title>
		<link>http://www.bandacorp.com/blog/what-makes-an-invention-patentable/</link>
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		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[how to patent an invention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Invention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inventors help]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obtaining a patent]]></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>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>
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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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		<title>The Magic of Innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.bandacorp.com/blog/the-magic-of-inventing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Patent]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the words of Albert Einstein:  &#8220;For an idea that does not at first seem insane, there is no hope.&#8221;  In this two part series, we are going to take a look at the Process of Inventing, including; what exactly is an &#8220;Invention&#8221;, where do the ideas come from, and some ways to grow and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you an inventor?</title>
		<link>http://www.bandacorp.com/blog/are-you-an-inventor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bandacorp.com/blog/are-you-an-inventor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Audrey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[New Invention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patent and Trademark]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have a great idea that you&#8217;ve been wanting to market? Do you observe new inventions in stores or on television and wonder &#8216;why didn&#8217;t I think of that?&#8217; If this sounds like you, you&#8217;ll definitely want to learn more about what it takes for inventors to get their products on the market. Here [...]]]></description>
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