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Invent Something? Plan Marketing Carefully” Offers Good Advice
In a column in the The Herald in Bradenton, Florida, entitled “Invent Something? Plan Marketing Carefully“, business columnist Jerry Osteryoung offers good advice to inventors looking to hire a patent attorney to assist them in securing legal rights to their ideas. Jerry Osteryoung is a finance professor at Florida State University and executive director […]
Nine Costly Misconceptions About Patents
If life were like the popular board game Monopoly ��, obtaining meaningful patent protection would be as simple as buying up Boardwalk and Park Place. In the board game, you simply purchase the property you want, place houses or hotels on them over time, and eagerly collect a continual revenue stream from the successful venture. […]
Protecting Software Through Patent Law
Patents, not copyrights, are now the only way to give adequate protection to the most important aspects of software. The is true because the “idea” behind a particular algorithm is much better protected as a patentable method than as a narrowly limited expression in copyright law. Most software designers are interested in preventing others […]
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Beyond the Hype: A Rational Look at Internet Patents
E-commerce patents have attracted a lot of attention in the news lately and the U.S. Patent Office is facing criticism, once again, relating to their examination and issuance of patents relating to a revolutionary new technology. I say “once again” because this is not the first time a new technological development has stirred up […]
Understanding the Limitations of a Design Patent
Inventors can obtain three different types of patents in the United States, namely, plant patents, utility patents, and design patents. Plant patents are rare and are used to protect a new plant that the inventor has produced asexually (without using seeds). A utility patent can be used to protect the way a new technology functions […]
Florida Atlantic University Awarded Patent on Software
A patent has been awarded to Florida Atlantic University Professor Stuart Galup for a new software-based system for assisting local government departments in overseeing guardianship cases according to an article in the Boca Raton News. According to the article, this was the first patent associated with Florida Atlantic University to originate with the College of […]
