Trademarks are More than Just Words
When most people think of trademarks, you usually think of logos such as the Nike® “swoosh” and the Apple® “apple” or phrases […]
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Celebrities and Their Inventions
A dozen movie and music celebrities and a brief description of their patented inventions: MARLON BRANDO – US6,812,392 – A drumhead tensioning […]
We Have Liftoff
Rocket have been lifting off the ground a long time. Starting in China, somewhere around 1230, gunpowder-propelled rockets were used in battle […]
Flying Cars
In the future, everybody is going to be flying around in their cars….it sounded great back in the 1950s but the future […]
The President’s Patent
Abraham Lincoln is the only president to have been issued a patent. It started when he was a young man working on […]
The Intermittent Wiper
Robert William Kearns invented the most common intermittent windshield wiper system used on the majority of automobiles from 1969 to the present. […]
The Long and Straight Beam
Gordon Gould, a physicist, is credited to be the inventor of the LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation). Although he […]
A Brief History of IP
The history of patent protection goes way, way back. It is suggested that the ancient Greeks at around 600 to 500 BCE […]