Every inventor should check USPTO fee schedule Effective January 2, 2021 (Last revised March 1, 2022) The fee schedule provides information and fee rates for USPTO’s products and services. All payments must be paid in U.S. dollars for the full amount of the fee required. View the Accepted payment methods page or call the USPTO Contact Center at 571-272-1000 or 800-786-9199 […]
Dec 2, 2019 Tara Malone You’ve heard all the hype about digital marketing and how it’s so great for your company. But when you try to create a marketing strategy for your business, you have no idea where to begin. It’s true, designing a digital marketing strategy can seem like a daunting task. There are tons of approaches […]
Vincent Gabrielle Knoxville News Sentinel I started getting calls for help late in March. Messages came in through email and Twitter from health care workers who were feeling desperate because their supply of personal protective equipment was dwindling. “I’ll keep this short and sweet. I’m a nurse and we are scrambling for PPE,” wrote one nurse. […]
How to Manufacture a New Product during a Trade War
Nadjya Ghausi GUEST WRITER CMO, Prezi October 23, 2019 4 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Pitching a product or business idea to venture-capital investors requires a lot of courage and conviction. It also takes a significant amount of work, time and networking to get a meeting in the first place. Once you have […]
In a growing company, juggling side projects and a full-time job is often frowned upon. by Sam Radocchia, Co-Founder at Chronicled // Blockchain // Forbes 30 Under 30 In a growing company, juggling side projects and a full-time job is often frowned upon. Everyone is supposed to be focused on one goal and one goal only […]
Read the Fine Print before you sign. It all sounds so good, and easy. You have spent hours and perhaps years creating your product. You have spent money making prototypes and patents. We know those are not cheap and can take years to get. You see an ad on TV and it sounds great! […]
Would-be inventors accuse InventHelp of fraud, seek $36M
By Gene Quinn January 13, 2018 Inventors will frequently ask why they need to spend the money on a US patent search, and all too frequently believe patent searches are unnecessary. There are various iterations of this question, starting out with “why do I need a patent search, I’ve already searched myself and cannot find anything,” to […]
Sometimes the best inventions are discovered by accident. One day in 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming returned to his lab in London after a two-week vacation to find that mold had developed on a contaminated staphylococcus culture plate. The scientist was searching for a “wonder drug” to cure a wide variety of diseases. A moldy Petri […]