Before filing for a patent, be sure to conduct research on your invention's patentability to see if it meets the requirements. UnderU.S. patent law, anyone can be awarded a patent if they invent or discover something new and useful. In order to be eligible for a utility patent, your in...
To see if your app idea has already been patented, you can do a few things. First, you can look online using websites like the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) or Google Patents. There, you can search for similar apps to see if someone already has a patent for someth...
I would urge all of you to stay you criticism of the public transport in whichever part of the world you are reading this, until you have endeavored to take a coach to a Buddhist Holy Mountain in China when several thousand people in a room not much bigger than small church also intend ...
In this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll learn from an entrepreneur who had to get creative in his marketing to advertise about a taboo topic.
Make it simple and get straight to the point—while grabbing attention. Personal stories and unique statistics are both great ways to do this. For example, if you're pitching an online collaboration tool, your hook could be something like: "73% of all teams will have remote workers by ...
So, if I were going to invent something, I’d probably start by creating an affordable jeweler’s workbench, not least because I’d be able to test it, and because I already know all the distribution channels I’d need to hit in order to sell it. Naturally, while doing my market res...
Stardog provides an Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform whose end result is an Enterprise Knowledge Graph. An Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform enriches and amplifies RDF graph (as a data structure and a data model) into something greater than the sum of its parts. And it does this by adding ...
find good ideas that you can use in your invention (in expired patents) and even more often you'll find that someone has patented the idea ahead of you. If you haven't found prior art that's close to your invention then you probably haven't looked hard enough or in the right places...
When shopping for running shoes, it's common to come across patented tech marketed as providing a high level of comfort. But you really just want to look for something with a tall stack of foam (like almost any Hoka running shoe). You can also try running shoes that use p...
In 1937, an American actor named Leona Chalmers patented the first commercially available menstrual cup, designing something that would fit in with her on-the-move lifestyle. Her design was very similar to some of the bell-shaped menstrual cups we have today. However, manufacturing it was hard...