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What Are The Future Inventions In Our Future?

Think back, what gizmos and gadgets in our current lives were not around perhaps 25 to 50 years ago? What was the status of home computers and cell phones –  25 years ago? How about the GPS we use in our cars or the iPod?

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Invention Scam Companies and How they Operate

Many of the invention scam companies advertise on TV, radio and/or especially on the Internet. 

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Flying Car Takes Wing: Invention Makes Its First Test Flights

ScienceDaily (Mar. 24, 2009) — A prototype of what is being touted as the world's first practical flying car took to the air for the first time this month, a milestone in a project started four years ago by students in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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Patent Examiners Told To Issue Patents

Because of strict quality initiatives, which really didn’t raise quality all that much, many patent applications were held up, rejected outright or applicants were forced to file continuations or appeal.  This led to a tremendous backlog of patent applications,
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PTO Hiring Freeze and Budget Problems

Rob Clarke, the Director of the Office of Patent Legal Administration at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, just finished his presentation at the 3rd Annual Patent Law Institute sponsored by PLI.  It was an extremely interesting presentation with quite a number of interesting factoids coming out.
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Senate Acts to Prevent USPTO Furlough or RIF

Last night the United States Senate passed a bill that authorizes the United States Patent and Trademark Office to shift funds between different USPTO accounts in order to avoid the Patent Office having to furlough or terminate patent examiners.
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