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Thursday marked the ten-year anniversary of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), a landmark piece of legislation that refashioned the United States patent system and intellectual property development. Passed on September 16th, 2011, this Act was sponsored by Senators Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Representative Lamar Smith of Texas. When signing this Act, President Obama …
Introduction Hello, this is John Cronin in Invent Anything. Welcome to Episode 5, “Types of Creativity 3.” We are going to be talking today about continuous improvement thinking. We will cover the first topic of the history and the theory of continuous improvement thinking, and in Topic 2, we will give you some tools and …
John Cronin appears on the SharkPreneur Podcast Hosted by Seth Greene. Listen to this illuminating Sharkpreneur episode with John Cronin about guarding your intellectual property.
In this series, John and Seth share insights relating to invention, creativity, and intellectual property collected over 17 years at IBM (becoming its top inventor with over 100 patents and 150 patent publications) and over 30 years of combined experience as ipCapital Group’s leaders (working with over 1,500 companies and approximately 15% of the Fortune 500, hundreds of mid-size companies and hundreds of startups and governmental laboratories).
A business has just been threatened. A close competitor got a very broad patent just issued, and the company believes they are violating the patent. Now what do they do?
Use of intellectual property without the consent of the owner, or assignee, is infringement. When considering patent infringement, there are several different types, the most obvious being direct infringement.
Blue Gas is poised to revolutionize transportation and energy. But what inventions will be needed for it to really take off in our lifetimes?
How Turntide Technologies Makes Motors More Efficient. A patent application filed in 2015 describes the basic concept.
Archeologists may have discovered the location of the world’s oldest brewery, in Abydos, Egypt. What can we learn about our ancestor’s invention?
In the third installment, John discusses two major types of creativity: divergent and convergent. Divergent creativity is the process of creating a variety of many new ideas. Convergent creativity is the process of narrowing down the list to a few valuable ideas.
In the wake of the Boeing 777 engine failure, we explore several ways we can use the power of invention and intellectual property to make our skies safer than ever.
IBM recently hit 50% abandonment rate of their patent portfolio. That adds up to approximately $81 Million in savings.