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Download our Scottish Inventors and Inventions trail, ready for your visit to the museum. (nms.ac.uk)

As NASA explores, innovates, and inspires through its work, agency inventions aimed at monitoring atmospheric pollution, studying samples from asteroids, extracting oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, and revolutionizing flight have been named TIME's Inventions of 2023. (nasa.gov)

Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation ," Harvard Business School Working Papers 10-020, Harvard Business School. (repec.org)
Breakthrough inventions and migrating clusters of innovation ," Journal of Urban Economics , Elsevier, vol. 67(1), pages 46-60, January. (repec.org)
Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation ," NBER Working Papers 15443, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. (repec.org)
As soon as you believe you have conceived a new technology, submit an Invention Disclosure to Innovation & Technology Commercialization (ITC). (lsu.edu)
This Section, entitled "Inventions and Innovation in Advanced Manufacturing", focuses on innovative research related to cutting-edge manufacturing technologies, processes, and methodologies. (mdpi.com)

Fully revised and updated for 2020, 1,000 Inventions and Discoveries explores recent inventions and discoveries - from the Amazon Echo to the first photograph of a black hole - as well as showcasing revolutionary historical inventions such as the wheel. (dk.com)

Our ongoing Reclaim Invention campaign urges universities not to sell patents to trolls. (eff.org)
The analysis found that industry-funded inventions yielded patents and licenses more frequently than federally sponsored ones, with results consistent across technical fields. (nsf.gov)
In all, Henry was granted 49 United States patents over the course of her career and is responsible for over 100 inventions. (invent.org)
Mr. Washington had numerous patents on inventions from Y-12 classified processes. (cdc.gov)

The inventions and discoveries he made over his lifetime, particularly in the late 1800s, are the basis for much of our modern lifestyle. (howstuffworks.com)
Tesla built on these discoveries and inventions to create the first wireless remote control boat, fluorescent and neon lights (which he did indeed bend into letters), wireless bulbs that were lit by energy from the earth and an AC power plant that harnessed the hydroelectric power of Niagara Falls. (howstuffworks.com)
By the time Tesla died in 1943, his money and fame were on the wane, but his inventions and discoveries have made much of our current technology possible. (howstuffworks.com)
Because corporations usually get first crack at negotiating licenses to the inventions they sponsor, there is an assumption that corporations tie up innovative discoveries in a way that restricts access to a broader audience. (nsf.gov)
Dip into this illustrated account of key inventions and discoveries, listed year by year, with intriguing facts about each invention and the person (or people) who invented it. (dk.com)
From the prehistoric hunting tools our early ancestors used to the modern-day smartphones that connect the entire planet, this book provides a fascinating tour through the history of humankind's inventions and discoveries. (dk.com)
Whether you're a budding inventor, a history buff, or both, this amazing guide is packed with the inventions and discoveries in science, technology, transport, medicine, and mathematics that changed the course of human existence. (dk.com)

The electrical coil named for its inventor is one of Tesla's showiest inventions, and he used it to its full dramatic extent in demonstrations held in his New York City lab. (howstuffworks.com)
He received the Advanced Technology Award for the International Inventors Club of America, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Invention Award, and the Inventor of the Year Award in Robotics from Martin Marietta Energy Systems. (cdc.gov)
3. Who is the inventor and who owns the invention? (lu.se)

Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman (right) speaks with Caren Franzini, the chief executive officer of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, at "Celebrate Princeton Invention" on Dec. 3. (princeton.edu)
Prucnal and Coller were joined by a number of their colleagues, including organic chemists, mechanical and aerospace engineers and computer scientists, to share information about their inventions at the second annual "Celebrate Princeton Invention" reception. (princeton.edu)
From left, President Tilghman enjoys a conversation with Jonathan Rochelle and Ronald Ho of Google, a co-supporter of the Celebrate Princeton Invention event. (princeton.edu)

In particular, whereas copyrighted works in the nineteenth century were frequently created by multiple individuals working together, which necessitated the collecting of rights in order to make use of the resulting copyrightable work, patentable inventions were almost exclusively perceived to be invented by individuals. (ssrn.com)
2. Is the invention new and patentable? (lu.se)

Invention disclosure - how do I seek IP protection? (sfu.ca)
Contact the TLO to submit an Invention Disclosure . (sfu.ca)
Upon receipt of your Invention Disclosure Form, ITC will conduct an intellectual property analysis and a commercial viability analysis to determine LSU's ability to protect and commercialize the invention. (lsu.edu)
Within 15 days, someone from ITC will contact you to discuss the invention disclosure. (lsu.edu)

The basic idea of a helicopter, flight through rotating horizontal wings or 'rotors', goes back at least 1,500 years, through a simple invention known as the 'Chinese top' that still survives today in different forms. (faqs.org)
Of the inventions, nearly 1,500 were supported at least partly by private industry. (nsf.gov)

At its height, the Roman Empire was the largest civilization in the West, owing largely to the innovations and inventions driving its exceptional growth. (worldatlas.com)
In this regard, we would like to propose honoring in a group memorial the great black inventors from the age of segregation, whose greatest inventions brought about major innovations in regards to transportation in America and the world. (change.org)

We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. (repec.org)
We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. (repec.org)
Patenting growth is significantly higher in cities and technologies where breakthrough inventions occur after 1984 relative to peer locations that do not experience breakthrough inventions. (repec.org)
But perhaps his most influential breakthrough was his invention and marketing of the first incandescent light bulb that was long-lasting and practical for wide use. (history.com)
Find out which 10 breakthrough inventions deserve credit for turning the travel sphere on its head. (smartertravel.com)

The event honored more than 200 University researchers who participated in the technology transfer process in 2010 and also recognized the importance of partnerships with industry to place Princeton inventions in the public domain, where they can be developed to improve wellbeing and promote economic growth. (princeton.edu)
The Second Industrial Revolution , which lasted from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, saw a surge of new technology and inventions that led to dramatic changes in the economy and how people lived and worked in Europe, Great Britain and especially the United States. (history.com)
The completed invention form (called the "Employee Invention Report" or "EIR") is then fed to the CDC Team at the National Institutes of Health where they handle patent prosecution and make the technology available for licensing. (cdc.gov)
More specifically, it investigates how the European and US patent systems interpret and apply the so called "inventive step" (Europe) or "non-obviousness" requirement (U.S.) vis-à-vis bio-pharmaceutical technology with a special emphasis on DNA-and protein related inventions. (lu.se)
Before you begin your application, it is also important to make sure that the invention is sufficiently different from existing technology and that it really can be patented. (lu.se)

We're asking universities around the country to protect their inventions from patent trolls by signing the Public Interest Patent Pledge . (eff.org)
Last year, EFF, along with our partner organizations, launched Reclaim Invention , a campaign to encourage universities across the country to commit to adopting patent policies that advance the public good. (eff.org)
Typically, this type of agreement requires the employee to disclose any such inventions to the employer, to "assign" (legally transfer) ownership rights in such inventions to the employer, and to assist the employer in getting a patent on any such inventions. (nolo.com)
Patent law's failure to modernize and develop an inventions made for hire doctrine has led to a string of significant court opinions holding that employers had not received adequate assignments to their employees' patented inventions, despite the parties' intentions to the contrary. (ssrn.com)
Within 12 months of filing a U.S. patent application, TTO will update its initial patentability and market assessments, and after consultation with the Division that sponsored the research leading to the invention, file international patent applications as appropriate. (cdc.gov)
When appropriate, TTO files national stage patent applications in those countries where it is believed that patent protection is required for the full development of the invention. (cdc.gov)
If a company would like to acquire rights to use or commercialize either an unpatented material or a patented or patent-pending invention, a license is normally required. (cdc.gov)
Most biomedical companies, whether large or small, desire worldwide patent protection to secure foreign markets or to use their assets in establishing strategic alliances which can add to the further development of the invention and the distribution of its benefits to the public. (cdc.gov)
The researchers also found that industry-sponsored inventions were more highly cited in subsequent patent applications--known as 'forward citations'--the most widely used marker of a patent's quality and importance. (nsf.gov)
The Reclaim Invention Act is a model state law to help ensure that state-funded universities don't sell their inventions to patent trolls. (eff.org)
Remember that, in order to be patented, the invention must be new in relation to what is generally available on the day the patent application is submitted. (lu.se)
The person named as the patent applicant, and thus the person who owns the rights to the invention, is therefore never Lund University. (lu.se)

Where appropriate, licenses to CDC inventions are granted on a worldwide basis. (cdc.gov)
The commentary's authors analyzed 12,516 inventions and related licenses at nine University of California campuses and three associated national laboratories. (nsf.gov)
Notably, among the corporate-funded inventions with exclusive licenses, half seemed to go to third parties and not the sponsor. (nsf.gov)
The authors acknowledged that they might not have identified all third party licensees that were actually affiliated with the original corporate sponsor, but Wright said this does not affect the finding that licenses to corporate-funded inventions are not more likely to be exclusive. (nsf.gov)

Overall, corporate-funded inventions were licensed exclusively 74 percent of the time, while federally funded inventions were licensed exclusively 76 percent of the time. (nsf.gov)

Upon approval by the TLO based on standardized criteria, the TLO will cover all legal fees for IP protection of a new invention and work with the creator to develop a IP licensing revenue stream. (sfu.ca)
It's a collection of inventions, made over decades, integrated to do a lot of complicated work in a blink of an eye. (makezine.com)
If you do creative, engineering, design, or development work, your employer might ask you to sign an invention assignment agreement: a contract giving your employer ownership rights in inventions and intellectual property you develop during your employment. (nolo.com)
Although there are exceptions where the invention results from the work the employee did for the employer or relates to the employer's business or anticipated research or development. (nolo.com)
The toilet users rolling desk in an invention for persons who wish to work and drink coffee whilst sitting on the throne. (improbable.com)

The finding calls into question assumptions that corporate support skews science toward inventions that are less accessible and less useful to others than those funded by the government or non-profit organizations. (nsf.gov)

In California, for example, an invention assignment agreement is not valid as to inventions created entirely on the employee's own time, without using any of the employer's resources or property (including intellectual property). (nolo.com)
Where necessary to ensure the rapid and effective development of a particular discovery, TTO seeks intellectual property protection (both domestic and foreign) on CDC inventions. (cdc.gov)

When universities invent, those inventions should benefit everyone. (eff.org)
Reclaim Invention asks universities to focus on by bringing their inventions to the public, rather than. (eff.org)

Drew's first tape invention was a masking tape made for painters in 1923 (this tape was designed to help painters paint a straight border between two colors). (enchantedlearning.com)
The "internal disks" (that are made by molding engineering ceramic) that mix water and the "control rod" (made in billed brass) are specifically developed for this invention. (polimi.it)

Jan Assmann, one of Germany's most influential historians and intellectuals, breaks new ground in The Invention of Religion . (princeton.edu)

Below are some inventions that were crucial to the development of the empire, and that continue to be use -in some form or another- today. (worldatlas.com)
The Invention of Religion is a powerful account of how ideas of faith, revelation, and covenant, first introduced in Exodus, shaped Judaism and were later adopted by Christianity and Islam to form the bedrock of the world's Abrahamic religions. (princeton.edu)

In this episode of Make: Inventions I do my best to make an airbag system that can detect a crash and deploy safely in 1/20th of a second. (makezine.com)
It also was a period when innovators dared to dream big and take great risks, either by devising new inventions or finding ways to make existing products more efficiently. (history.com)
In this brilliant, imaginative, and comprehensive study of the Book of Exodus, Jan Assmann draws on his extensive and nuanced knowledge of ancient civilizations, cultural memory, and biblical texts to make the case that the Exodus story of the liberation of a people is also the story of the unprecedented invention of a radically new conception of religion-one that became the basis for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. (princeton.edu)

Two eminent invention/design firms are quarreling very much in public about a dustpan. (improbable.com)

Members of the University community, investors and industry representatives circled around the Chancellor Green Rotunda Friday, Dec. 3, to learn about Princeton inventions that could become the beneficial applications of the future. (princeton.edu)

Approximately one year after the filing of an international application, TTO again reevaluates the commercial potential of the invention. (cdc.gov)

Join Isla on her adventure round the museum to discover some Scottish inventions and how they have helped shape our lives and the world around us today. (nms.ac.uk)
Discover the fascinating story behind amazing inventions and learn how they have changed the world. (teachervision.com)
Discover the origins of art essentials in 13 Art Inventions Children Should Know . (dickblick.com)

California employees who are asked to sign an invention assignment agreement must also receive a written notification of these rules. (nolo.com)
Ordinance (527/88) respecting employees' right to inventions. (ilo.org)
Regulates the application of Act (656/67) respecting employees' right to inventions. (ilo.org)

For example, the agreement might ask the employee to list all inventions the employee created before working at the company (which the employer will not own the rights to). (nolo.com)
This prevents the employee from later claiming rights to any inventions that are not on the list. (nolo.com)
Below, you will find a list of common invention techniques. (lu.se)

A license is a legal agreement by which the owner of an invention promises not to take action to exclude the licensed party from making, using, and/or selling the invention. (cdc.gov)

If you have questions about the Reclaim Invention Act or are planning to introduce it in your state, then please contact EFF activist Elliot Harmon . (eff.org)
Targeted questions about the invention of riveted jeans. (abcteach.com)

Invention techniques are strategies which can be used to generate ideas for written assignments. (lu.se)
As with other invention techniques, the idea of clustering is to generate ideas for essays or other projects. (lu.se)

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