When I give workshops on intellectual property, one of my favourite stories is about Procter & Gamble's success with Pringles. P&G isn't really a food company. For decades it has successfully used its patents on the Pringles manufacturing method to ward off competitors. Those patents wore off, and competitors flooded the grocery ...
Inventors have advanced the world's technology since... er... the discovery of fire. We are seldom the focus of storytelling, or mass-media entertainment. Here's an oddity. Andrew Moodie's play is staging this month in various locales around Ontario Canada. It's about the life of inventor Elijah McCoy - inventor of an automatic ...
The "inventor services" firms have been around for ages. They used to advertise on matchbooks. Now you find their cheesy ads on daytime TV. There's one ad running lately that shows a frustrated housewife glaring at her EZ Pasta cooker - "That was MY idea" she gasps. Alas, because she didn't file a patent ...
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