Few toys have been more popular than the 72-year-old Slinky. With more than 350 million units sold as of 2012, it has gone down your staircase and beyond.
And the Slinky is an incredible story of how even the simplest ideas should be protected. Its 70-year-old patent remains one of the most lucrative protections of intellectual property the toy industry has ever seen—withstanding the test of time and leading to countless sales and licensing opportunities.
By: Nasreen Bakht Brady, Client Engagement Director at IP.com
Kids might be groaning as they head back to school, but when Labor Day passes and we lament the end of summer, I find myself reminiscing about some of my favorite days as a student.
The innovation life cycle starts with ideation, moves to patenting and ultimately to monetization. Download this infographic to learn how InnovationQ accelerates your organization’s innovation life cycle.
By: Megan Scroggins, Client Engagement Manager, IP.com
Corporate Tree is a new set of data, integrated into InnovationQ and InnovationQ Plus, to make it easier to identify and search related companies and subsidiaries.
By: Deb Toepper, Editor, IP.com
Everyone should invest in a thorough examination of the prior art before deciding to file for patent status
By: Caitlyn Tuzzolino, Marketing Director, IP.com
With so many new inventions created every day, it is likely that patent owners will find infringing products or services in the marketplace.
By: Devin Salmon, Patent Analyst, IP.com
When it comes to your business’ intellectual property (IP), it really breaks down to four categories of the IP your business owns…
By: Nasreen Bakht Brady, Client Engagement Director and Devin Salmon, Patent Analyst, IP.com
Like any patent searching, semantic searching is often iterative.
By: Nasreen Bakht Brady, Client Engagement Director and Devin Salmon, Patent Analyst, IP.com
When do you know when you’re done with a patent search? The cheeky response is ‘well how much time do you have?’
When there’s a problem, innovators seek solutions.
