2010 Green Inventors Wanted
Of those who invent, only one in three submit their inventions to the Patent Office. The other two tell how they thought of that years ago!
An inventor must always see the big picture, Don't be a loser.
Invention Story
Take for instance, this 22 year old college student who invented Soy-Yer Dough (Playdough) is a wheat free and fun scented modeling compound. The leading modeling compound that we all grew up with is wheat based, which causes children with an aversion to wheat to feel completely left out. Modeling compounds stimulate a child's mind and inspire creativity, but kids with celiac disease, autism, ADD and ADHD are forced to find other means of creative inspiration. Now, with Soy-Yer Dough, all children can experience the benefits of handling a modeling compound that is gluten free, non-toxic, and fun scented. Got a patent and started making and selling his product from his wedsite, making money slowly.
He went on a TV show ( Shark Tank on ABC ) to get some money $125,000 to expand his operation. Three of the investors were fighting to get his patent rights and help him become a millionaire. By age 23 he will be a millionaire. BY INVENTING !
We have a fondness here for inventors & start-ups. Inventions that make life better and richer do not spring solely from old or new companies, but from individuals.
America Needs Inventors
Remember that without new products (cell phone, ipod, laptop, light bulb) the future of America and the World will come to a standstill. Progress is creativity in action and inventors build the future. You don't have to be rich or a genus to make money from your ideas, you just need to invent it. New products are alive and making millions and Patents, trademarks are the keys to these millions. Ideas are like lottery tickets.
Turn great GREEN ideas ( save time,reduces water,reduces waste,saves energy,innovative,etc. ) that improve lives and help our planet into actual products and services. Get your green idea out there because Green is Big.
Patents, Trademarks, Servicemarks, and Copyrights?
What Is a Patent?
A patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor, issued by the Patent and Trademark Office. The term of a new patent is 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent was filed in the United States or, in special cases, from the date an earlier related application was filed, subject to the payment of maintenance fees. US patent grants are effective only within the US, US territories, and US possessions. The right conferred by the patent grant is, in the language of the statute and of the grant itself, “the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling” the invention in the United States or “importing” the invention into the United States. What is granted is not the right to make, use, offer for sale, sell or import, but the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, selling or importing the invention.
There are three types of patents:
1) Utility patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement. 2) Design patents may be granted to anyone who invents a new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture. 3) Plant patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant.
What Is a Trademark or Servicemark?
A trademark is a word, name, symbol or device which is used in trade with goods to indicate the source of the goods and to distinguish them from the goods of others. A servicemark is the same as a trademark except that it identifies and distinguishes the source of a service rather than a product. The terms "trademark" and "mark" are commonly used to refer to both trademarks and servicemarks. Trademark rights may be used to prevent others from using a confusingly similar mark, but not to prevent others from making the same goods or from selling the same goods or services under a clearly different mark. Trademarks which are used in interstate or foreign commerce may be registered with the Patent and Trademark Office. The registration procedure for trademarks and general information concerning trademarks is described in a separate pamphlet entitled "Basic Facts about Trademarks".
What Is a Copyright?
Copyright is a form of protection provided to the authors of “original works of authorship” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, and certain other intellectual works, both published and unpublished. The 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to reproduce the copyrighted work, to prepare derivative works, to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work, to perform the copyrighted work publicly, or to display the copyrighted work publicly. The copyright protects the form of expression rather than the subject matter of the writing. For example, a description of a machine could be copyrighted, but this would only prevent others from copying the description; it would not prevent others from writing a description of their own or from making and using the machine. Copyrights are registered by the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress.
Start Inventing !!!
GOOD LUCK !!!!
" It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves"