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registered mark

May 10, 2021

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 like “I’ve fallen and I ...

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spotlight beams

May 10, 2021

Celebrities and Their Inventions

A dozen movie and music celebrities and a brief description of their patented inventions:...

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rocket patent

May 10, 2021

We Have Liftoff

Rocket have been lifting off the ground a long time....

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flying machine

May 10, 2021

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 may actually be just around the...

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Lincoln patent

May 10, 2021

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 Great Lakes and Ohio and Mississ...

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wiper motion

May 3, 2021

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. He f...

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laser beam

May 3, 2021

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 tried to...

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April 29, 2021

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 granted protection to inventors,...

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