Patent granted: Working-fluid generator with induction heating coil
A novel method of efficiently producing steam by conducting heat from an induction coil through a container. Congratulations to our client Michael Waldraff.
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Women Inventors: The Patent Office Wants You.
USPTO is helping more women, minorities, and veterans join the innovation economy. “Expanding Innovation” is the USPTO’s new (March 2020) effort to inspire more women, minorities, veterans, and geographically/socioeconomically diverse applicants to join the innovation economy. Get your free resources and mentoring: https://www.uspto.gov/initiatives/expanding-innovation
Free IP Advice For the Socially Isolated (That Should be You).
This week we offer free IP advice to voluntary isolators. In the meantime: 1. Retake Algebra 2. Get A this time. 2. Or Algebra 1. 3. Or, OK, dividing fractions. 4. Start a biography of someone interesting in your life. 5. Write an autobiography using your iCal events. 6. Draw a cartoon series on the …
“IP 101” Tomorrow at University of Rhode Island’s Launch Lab
We’re presenting our IP 101 Workshop at University of Rhode Island’s Launch Lab tomorrow, 2/27/20, from 11:30 am — 1 pm. It’s part of the RI INBRE Entrepreneur Series. Learn about intellectual property (IP) basics and potential ways to protect your innovation as you transition from idea to product. Students, faculty and other entrepreneurs in …
Licensing 101 at the Free Library this Thursday Night
Join us this Thursday night at the Free Library of Philadelphia for Licensing 101 for Inventors. Learn about your options when considering licensing your invention to a company. Learn how licensing works; how much you can expect in a licensing deal; whether to license or produce it yourself; and how to talk to potential licensees. …
Ask Me Anything: Free IP Advice This Thursday at the Library.
Got a question about intellectual property? On Thursday, February 13 from 12 — 5, we’ll be giving free, 30-minute consultations on intellectual property at the Free Library of Philadelphia’s new Business Resource and Innovation Center. Sign up at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Licensing your Invention
Profiting from intellectual property requires a choice: license your patented invention for royalties, or produce it, market it, and sell it yourself. Here are some licensing tips Scott has compiled from his experiences with inventors over the last 15 years. Tip #1: License it or manufacture it yourself? Unless you have the the time, money, …
Twenty years of tinkering and persistence. Then a lucrative licensing deal.
Determination, dilligence and a mid-life layoff were all he needed to make his invention the biggest-selling snow shovel in the U.S. and Canada. Howie Rosenshine was a fifty-year old software engineer when his employer of 22 years, Sun Microsystems, was bought out by Oracle. It wasn’t long before the layoffs began. That’s when Rosenshine was …
Avoiding Infringement is a Subtractive Process
How do we avoid infringing others’ patents while obtaining the strongest patent possible for our own invention? When we focus on protecting our intellectual property, we sometimes fail to consider the possibility of infringing on someone else’s patent. A common belief among inventors is that The US Patent and Trademark Office protects inventors from infringing. …
Patent Granted! Convert a snowboard to a skateboard/longboard.
Congratulations to our client Roberto Smith for his snowboard-longboard conversion kit, U.S. Patent No. 10427026. Convert a snowboard to a skateboard or longboard, or convert your skateboard into a snowboard. This kit converts a snowboard to a long skateboard (“longboard”) by use of added trucks and structural supports. It combines the properties of a snowboard …