Can I Patent a Name?
[12-June-15 12:37:07]Naming Generally It is common for most people to confuse patent, trademark and copyright protection when it comes to naming. A person might attempt to...
2015
Protect Your Ideas
[10-June-15 19:37:22]Having the Idea is the First Step Most inventors do not believe that their ideas are patentable. In fact, they actually have an idea that...
2014
Garrett Morgan, Inventor of the Improved Traffic Signal
[10-December-14 18:00:57]African American inventor Garret Augustus Morgan invented an improved traffic light in 1923 (US1475024). He was born in Kentucky on March 4, 1877. He only received...
What is a Patent?
[8-December-14 20:40:55]A patent is an intellectual property right granted by the United States government to an inventor “to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale,...
Apple Inc. Claims Patent Infringement On Charger Products
[5-December-14 18:07:38]Those fancy 8-prong and 30-pronged chargers that you see at local stores might be in violation of patent and trademarks owned by Apple Inc. A...
Microsoft’s MTM Gestures Patent
[3-December-14 19:45:06]Most tablet computing devices allow users to execute various functions by touching the surface of the touchscreen with a single finger and then dragging that...
What Do You Understand About Your Business?
[29-October-14 18:31:07]How do you manage the behind-the-scenes operations of your business? What do you understand about your business? Learn how to stay on top of your...
US Patent 5,255,452 Michael Jackson’s Anti-Gravity Lean Shoes
[22-October-14 23:54:01]Believe it or not, United States patent 5,255,452 was issued to Michael J. Jackson in 1993. The patent shows how Michael Jackson and his world...
What is a Patent?
[24-July-14 15:50:40]A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in...
Development of the modern patent system
[24-July-14 15:45:34]Patents were systematically granted in Venice as of 1450, where they issued a decree by which new and inventive devices had to be communicated to...
Correction of Granted Patents
[24-July-14 15:39:14]he Office may issue without charge a certificate correcting a clerical error it has made in the patent when the printed patent does not correspond...
A Patent Does Not Give Unlimited Rights
[24-July-14 15:35:12]A patentee, merely because he/she has received a patent for an invention, is not thereby authorized to make, use, offer for sale, or sell, or...