How does one protect a website with great functionality and excellent design? The default is to obtain copyright on the expressive elements of the website. However, these other means are also used: Utility patents can secure innovative functionality as a method/algorithm. For example, Netflix obtained this patent to secure the way its website guides users [...]
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Several ways to protect a website
July 18, 2010Independent Designers: Here’s a Powerful Tool to Combat Knock-Offs
June 19, 2010I’m always troubled when I hear stories about independent designers who are ripped off by knock-off artists, large retail chains and unscrupulous exporters who take advantage of low-cost manufacturing costs to catch a free ride from a designer’s work. Reporter Christina Binkley wrote an interesting article on this very topic in The Wall Street Journal [...]
Top 10 Places for Tech Jobs…And Their Patents
September 17, 2009U.S. News and World Report lists the Top Ten Places for Tech Jobs. The list includes: Atlanta, Boston, Houston, Huntsville, New Yok, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington. It’s an interesting list, and I thought I would do a patent search for inventors based out of these cities. Here are the results I obtained [...]
Back to School
September 1, 2009Attention student innovators. If you have had a revelation for a product that would make dorm life better, visit this site to enter a contest: Students of Invention Contest Just think “lava lamp”.
To the Folks at Twitter: Use Trademarks to Monetize Your Traffic
June 13, 2009I just read an article on a packaging blog that mentions how companies are adding their Twitter ID on product packaging. I agree with the article’s conclusion that it’s a smart marketing move that allows a company using this strategy to stay in touch with customers. Pepsi, for example, added “twitter.com/pepsiraw” to its Pepsi Raw [...]
Recession is the Perfect Time to Innovate
May 22, 2009“Recessions signal end of an era; out goes the old way of doing things and room is made for the entrepreneurs to come with new innovative ideas.” This is according to Kanwal Rekhi, a legendary Silicon Valley entrepreneur and graduate of Michigan Technological University’s electrical engineering program. Dr. Rekhi made this intriguing statement in an [...]
How to think like an i-preneur
May 6, 2009I define an i-preneur as someone who can extract value from intellectual assets. An i-preneur has clear goals and procedures to generate income from their knowledge-based assets. Understanding how intellectual assets generate wealth is the biggest challenge today’s entrepreneurs face. It is also among the biggest opportunities for wealth creation. I’ve seen many i-preneurs in [...]
The Patent Piler
April 25, 2009I met Allan Tokuda when I was a Teaching and Research Fellow at Northwestern University. I was helping teach a course on Innovation and Invention in the engineering program. Allan was one of the brighter and more inquisitive students. I knew he had some remarkable qualities when, before class one day, he took out a [...]
