It’s October– which means that Halloween is right around the corner! I am going to be writing a weekly scary blog about patents that are a bit spooky and quite real. Scary is in the air and cemeteries have never seemed more alive. Everyone who has driven by or walked by a cemetery at this […]
As of September 16, 2012, the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences officially became known as the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). The PTAB was implemented to comply with new provisions of the America Invents Act (AIA). The USPTO will now accept petitions for certain post-grant proceedings using a new a new online system called […]
The release of the new iPhone 5 today is not the end for Apple. Apple’s patent portfolio is extremely extensive. Since the iPhone’s initial release in 2007, more than 1,200 patent applications have been filed by Apple. (As a side note, Samsung which is Apple’s biggest competition has filed 4,000 patents since its release of […]
The following list comprises our selection of components for a new computer build geared towards video editing, along with our reasoning behind each selection. Please refer Part 1 of this article for some background information if you haven’t already. Remember, our goal is to build a relatively fast and balanced machine within a budget of […]
Heinz ketchup is being sued for patent-infringement for the flexible condiment package for ketchup, known as “Dip & Squeeze.” In a suit filed in August in the U.S. District Court in Chicago, Scott White claims he had a “flash of inspiration” after too many ketchup spills at the drive-through. He came up with the idea […]
While it is unknown as to who actually invented the first horseshoe, some credit must be given to Buffalo, New York’s African American Inventor, Oscar E. Brown. Oscar Brown was an African American inventor and a part of Western New York’s history. In 1892, Brown was issued the United States Patent No. 481, 271 […]
According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), a patent is defined as a property right granted by the Government of the United States of America to an inventor “to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United […]
This is the story of an invention made by two famous scientists – Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard – who dramatically changed the world we live in. Einstein, of course, is well known for his Theory of Relativity and the famous equation E= mc2 . Szilard, among his many accomplishments, was co-inventor and patentee of […]
The question answered here is whether or not you can patent an idea? Remember you can get a patent for the “thing” you make not the idea. “Thoughts become things…choose the good ones!” “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” […]