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Small Biz Alert! Protecting Intellectual Property: Patents 101
3. Not fully appreciating the full financial value of its intellectual property. Often, people focused on technology and innovation see the issuance of a patent as the end goal. In other words, the...
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U.S. Patent Office Cancels Washington Redskins Trademark
According to The Washington Post, The United States Patent and Trademark Office has canceled the Washington Redskins trademark registration. The ruling does not mean that the team has to change the...
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Washington Redskins Suing Native American Group
(Image: File) According to NBC Washington, a judge has suggested that the Washington Redskins—who lost its trademark protection after it was determined that the name Redskins is offensive— can sue the...
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Meet the First African American Woman to Hold a Patent for a Natural Hair...
Gwen Jimmere, founder of Naturalicious hair products and winner of the 2014 Black Enterprise Elevator Pitch Competition BlackEnterprise.com thanks its readers for their enthusiastic response to this...
View ArticleReport: Google Paid Apple $1 Billion for iOS Search Privilege
Google and Oracle are in a fierce court battle. Oracle, a maker of business software, services, and hardware has taken Google to court, crying foul over the fact that the search giant used its Java...
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Google Files Patents For Unique Glasses, a Robot and a Driverless Car
A search of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s database shows some recently filed patents by Google. The search engine titan is obviously firing all cylinders in its research of robots/drones,...
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Top 5 Ways To Protect and Profit from Your Idea
Are you full of great ideas but don’t know how to turn them into sales? Or are you afraid your golden ideas will be stolen by copycats? Here are five tips for protecting your intellectual property from...
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Turning Patents and Ideas Into Profits
Black inventors hold a unique place in history, whether propelling America forward technologically—Otis Boykin’s improved electrical resistor would later be found in computers, radios, and...
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Black History Month: Inventions Made by Black Slaves Denied Patents
(Image: eachoneteachone.org.uk) Shontavia Johnson, a lawyer and professor of Intellectual Property Law at Drake University, wrote an eye-opening piece on the history of African American slaves being...
View ArticleNigerian Inventor Creates Stove That Cooks Food And Charges Smartphones
Max Chinnah is a 26-year-old Nigerian inventor and entrepreneur who recently invented a smokeless stove that doesn’t just cook food—the stove has the ability to convert that particular heat energy into...
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