Sentences with phrase «small inventor»

So what do you do if you're a small inventor, working in your free time on coding new software, and all of a sudden you're threatened with a patent suit?

My authority on the matter: I am a small inventor with IP, and I have a right to protect my inventions from being stolen by bigger fish while I actualize and bring them to the market.

For years the small inventor has been victimized by unscrupulous large entities stealing inventions telling the inventor to go sue in court.

As a small inventor, Schlager and a partner hired a patent licensing consultant to help them present the technology to cellphone companies like Qualcomm and Motorola.

«It's incredibly important and rewarding to defend a small inventor's interests in the current anti-patent environment», said Raskin.

In addition, small inventors often include a declaration asking for a reduction in the filing fee.

Worse still, it can also put a chill on smaller inventors or companies who don't have the funds to fight such battles.

Moreover, an examination of publicly listed NPEs indicates that little of the direct costs represents a transfer to small inventors.

Recently we have heard that big portfolios of large companies pose a threat to small inventors, «patent trolls» who exist solely to sue real companies have hijacked the marketplace for new ideas and colossal lawsuits prove that America's patent system is broken.

Using data on all patents granted by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and the US Patent and Trademark Office, we find a significant drop in the fraction of patents granted to small inventors in Canada coincident with the implementation of first ‐ to ‐ file.

The role played in the economy by small inventors — «Edison, Hewlett and Packard, Jobs and Wozniak» as the authors put it — is a matter of debate among economists, so for that reason, and despite the undoubted efficiencies consequent upon the change in the system, it's unclear whether a net benefit will result.

So let's focus on the argument: Would the Innovation Act have hurt small inventors and empowered large corporations in the small inventors pursuit against infringement from the large corporations?

Thanks for the comment but don't you find it funny how many of these «small inventors» can fund Washington PR people who spout rhetoric like what we see in the comments below;)

Myhrvold and company are not doing this to protect small inventors from big, bad corporations.

A better question is how to stop the real problem: infringement by large corporations who muscle their financial power in the legal system, which obliviates small inventors, which is the very reason Intellectual Ventures came to be so they could protect inventors.

And the Innovation Act was set out to destroy those rights granted to small inventors and innovation while empowering large corporations with more legal bullying power.

Would the Innovation Act have hurt small inventors and empowered large corporations in the small inventors pursuit against infringement from the large corporations?

This bill offered absolutely no positive reform for inventors, simply because, if passed, it would have empowered big enterprise with more infringement bullying power, as small inventors would not be able to survive a legal battle to enforce their patent protection rights.

The costs to defendants in NPE suits, most of whom invest heavily in R&D, are much larger than the possible flows to small inventors.

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Small inventors are not a patent troll since you had something to do with the innovation (being an inventor).

The Patent Reform Act of 2007 could come before the U.S. House of Representatives for a vote as soon as this week despite objections from some labor unions, small inventors, and some small tech vendors.

To make their case for why they need easier access to bigger money awards, the patent owners tell stories about small inventors who have their inventions ripped off by big companies who use all sorts of tricks to avoid paying the inventors on their patents.

Here's a screenshot of the musings from the man whose patents are being used to sue dozens of small inventors:

Some empirical research actually suggests that a similar transition in the Canadian system correlates with a drop in the percentage of patents granted to small inventors.

Not exact matches

It was also then that some of the biggest marketers succeeded with a business model that may still hold about an 80 percent share of the DRTV market: Find products created by a would - be Edison somewhere in America, market them on DRTV, give a small royalty cut to the inventor, and share the risk of a capricious DRTV audience across your product portfolio.

Ray Kurzweil, an inventor, entrepreneur, and a futurist, should never be accused of thinking small.

In a fraught environment where small businesses owners are extremely guarded about their intellectual property — in particular their patents — wizard inventor Elon Musk caused quite a stir on Tuesday at the electric car company's shareholder meeting in Mountain View, California.

This fundamental innovation was created during a remarkably short period of time — most of it between the late 1870s and the beginning of the 20th century — by a surprisingly small number of inventors, engineers and scientists.

After having to replace three windshields due to small breaks, inventor Dr. Frank Werner teamed up with chemical engineer Bill Wiele to find a way to repair windshields rather than replacing them.

The Grommet, which markets and sells products from small companies and inventors, uses Pinterest to help determine which products to promote online.

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It's the kind of place you should know about if you are an inventor or have a small company with good ideas but no way to get distribution.

But the inventor who had first caught Fortune's eye more than two decades earlier was someone else: a rebellious physics genius, not yet 30, who «never took the trouble to graduate from Harvard» and who had started a small company in a cellar on Boston's Dartmouth Street.

Those who have benefited over the years include: everyday people, inventors, entrepreneurs, attorneys, doctors, small businesses, large corporations, college classrooms, military personnel, and government organizations including the SBA, SBDC, SCORE, and USDA.

Adams described Nickerson as a «clever inventor but not much of a businessman» but added that he «was known for taking a small idea and making it reality.»

Find USPTO resources and programs for inventors, entrepreneurs, and small businesses seeking assistance with legal matters, including application filing, locating a registered...

In the process, she has worked with small and large companies, academic inventors and university tech transfer offices, as well as government research organizations.

Save the Date: May 1 -31 When we spotlight the diverse and brilliant small businesses, entreprenuers, organizations, and technophiles that are inventors / doers / game changers of DC's InnoMAYtion Nation.

Bryana wrote me this morning to point me towards an interview with Tereson Dupuy, Inventor of Fuzzi Bunz over at the Sundance Channel's blog, Big Ideas For A Small Planet.

On this list, you'll find inventions by moms that begin to teach kids independence, gear that saves time and money, and products that help streamline a mom's busy day — no small feat, but these inventors are moms who just get it: they get what moms and kids need, because they live that Mom Life every day themselves.

if you give a small minority of people a second vote (Say, inventors, or National medal of Honor recipients), that won't materially affect the influence of everyone else with 1 vote.

In 2014, five engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory tested independent inventor Guido Fetta's Cannae Drive, a prototype space engine that's basically a microwave emitter within a small metal cone.

As a young inventor in Massachusetts, he'd been fascinated by old - style bateaux, fur - trading boats with shallow drafts for negotiating small rivers and flat bottoms to provide stability when heavily laden with pelts.

«My work is mostly with U.K. - based small businesses and individuals, so I nearly always deal directly with the inventor.»

Even small companies usually have some incentive or reward policy in place for inventors.

Dean of Invention Dean Kamen — college dropout turned multimillionaire inventor of wonders like the Segway Personal Transporter and advanced prosthetics — brings his take on innovation to the small screen.

For example, he notes that the University of Florida returns royalties just to the inventor's program when the revenue stream is relatively small, but spreads the wealth across the institution's broader crop breeding programs when revenues are bigger.

«Things don't always work right the first time as an inventor,» said Eric Fossum, who invented small digital camera sensors for NASA's interplanetary spacecraft that led to cell phone cameras.

The new system may be more expensive, however, for small - scale inventors looking to patent in only a few E.U. nations, Freeland says.