Mary Dixon Kies- U.S. Patent # Unknown (lost in U.S. Patent Office fire of 1836) For the first 144 years of its existence, women were not treated as equal citizens of the United States of America. In fact, they weren’t even allowed to vote until the women’s suffrage movement, led by Susan B. Anthony, Alice … Inventor Highlight: Mary Dixon Kies
Zeppo Marx – United States patent #3,426,747 There is an old expression: “Serious as a heart attack.” Clearly, cardiac health is not something that people joke around about. For that reason, it is more than a little ironic that a lifesaving invention for measuring the regularity of a heartbeat came from one of America’s most … Inventor Highlight: Zeppo Marx
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“Well I started Masimo, we launched our product and about two years later this company came out with an infringing product. If we were unable to sue the patent infringer, we would have just been out of business. But, the fact that the patent system was as strong as it was, it allowed us to … Quote of the Week: Joe Kiani Founder & CEO, Masimo Corporation
Harry Connick, Jr. – United States patent # 6,348,648 It’s been said that necessity is the mother of invention. What may also be the case, however, is that passion is its father. Such is certainly the case with renowned singer, songwriter, pianist, band leader and actor Harry Connick, Jr. A passionate musician, Connick was never … Inventor Highlight: Harry Connick, Jr.
So I think the message that the United States sends when it reduces the the protection afforded intellectual property rights is we send a message to the rest of the world, that they don’t need to adopt rules. It use to be, in my view, what the United States was doing when we were negotiating … Quote of the Week: Deanna Tanner Okun, Former Chairman, U.S. International Trade Commission
Never before have we needed to have more incentive for people to innovate, for people to take risks and the most powerful government piece of incentivizing people to take risks and to create new things, whether it’s curing disease or solving environmental problems or energy problems. The only part that the government can hold out … Quote of the Week: Dean Kamen Founder, DEKA Research and Development
Meet Celia, an intrepid inventor with a great idea and big ambitions for changing the world. Little does she know the legal pitfalls that await if bad patent legislation makes it through Congress…
The U.S. patent system was designed for a specific purpose. It was designed to give the individual the right to own an invention, just like an author has the right to own a book, and it’s there for an incentive. What that does is it incentivizes incredible risk-taking by thousands of inventors around the country … Quote of the Week: Greg Raleigh CEO, ItsOn
Adding uncertainty and costs to getting and maintaining patents will be the largest single cost of the decline of innovation and therefore the economy in this country that I’ve seen in my lifetime. – REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS MASSIE