Did you know that Dial Corp. (the soap and cleaning products manufacturer) has a web-site devoted to “how to submit your patented/patent pending idea to Dial Corp.“?Q: What is the process for submitting a patented or patent pending product idea? A: In order to review all of the product ideas that we receive each year, [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2004
If you like JibJab…
Flowgo with an animated political cartoon sure to offend both parties…
Germans and gas
PatentPending Blog: Germans didn’t have gas during WWII
Annova: Germans invent pork, sauerkraut and beer diet
Coincidence?
About.com with interesting article series for inventors
Lessons on Turning a New Invention Idea Into Money
Lesson 1: Understanding Intellectual Property
Lesson 2: What can I Patent?
Lesson 3: How Do I Know if my Idea is Patentable?
Lesson 4: Conducting a Search for Prior Art
Lesson 5: To Patent or Not to Patent
Lesson 6: How to File for a Patent
Lesson 7: Proving this Idea [...]
Blawger Bowl Update
One of the things us Blawger Bowlers do every week (for our own entertainment) is take turns writing a weekly wrap up. This week, it is my turn.
Game #1. Invent Blog v. Patently Obvious – Battle of League Giants. Coming off a week 6 win where the PO team raked in a whopping 148 points (winning by [...]
iPod Design Patent
Today: Patently Obvious Blog on: Patent Law Blog: iPod Receives Design Patent (D497,618)
Adding to Dennis’ above post, I note Apple already has a design patent covering the first generation iPod: D472,245.
I also found the below patent one time in a patent search for some totally unrelated technology and thought it was interesting how much it [...]
My only pre-election political rant
I am so dreading the next 4 weeks. Elections are just 6 days away, but I am afraid that the results are likely to not be known for weeks thereafter. With all of the reports of voter intimidation and counties where more people are registered to vote than live in the county, my gut tells [...]
EULA – Stick it to Ya
This post is a follow up to my recent post on Software Gaming Patents. Earlier today I listened to the audio of an interesting discussion Ernest Miller had with Michael Madison (professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh) and Seth Finkelstein (an anti-censorship activist and programmer) regarding the Bnetd v. Blizzard case. In the case, Bnetd had reverse [...]
Update to Guide to Downloading Patent Copies
freePatâ„¢ 0.5 (beta) for Windows. From blogger Peter Eliopoulos (Eliopoulous Intellectual Property Law – Canada) comes this free Windows program that “can download US, European, PCT, Canadian, French, German and UK patents to your computer as a single PDF file at no charge.”
UPDATE: Version 0.6 is out.
Podcasting and CLE for blogging
Denise Howell at Bag and Baggage Blog wrote this week’s IP Memes. One of her topics was “podcasting” which is essentially (read her post for a full explanation) providing a regularly updated audio file on the Internet for people to download and play on their computer, iPod or other device. Some of you use an [...]
