Patent Definition and 68 Threads

Is it possible to patent the use of a certain steel section for a certain appication? For example patenting the use of channel section for the use in a collapsable lift design?

What does it take to become a U.S. patent clerk? I will have an engineering physics degree. Is the pay decent? Right now I just don't feel like doing research in physics for an official institution of any sort.But there is a lot personal research I would like to do.

i live in india. can anyone tell me how to apply and if possible, obtain a patent? how long does the process take?

So I am currently a student at Wentworth Institute of Technology and I am studying Electromechanical Engineering. I am going into my 5th year and I have a lot of great ideas floating around in my head. I came across a great idea for a golf club that should help an average golfer with their...

I'm thinking about applying for a job as a patent examiner and possibly becoming an agent. It seems like an interesting line of work. Does anyone have any opinions or know someone how has worked in this field. I don't think I'll go the lawyer route, at least not right away, 8 years of grad...

The white-out thread (plus memories of Patent #4,669,216 ) got me going and I came across this: http://www.ipwatchdog.com/animal_toy.html Simple. Useful. And entertaining, too! What a great invention! (My dog, Zoie, seconds that opinion.)

This picture is on the cover of this PATENT That refers to this ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPULSION Is any of this considered possible?

Hi, i have studying the following paten for a few months and i would ike to know if anybody understands this patent and what its about...

Guys, I found another "interesting" artice on the web. It relates to a new solid-state electrical generator patent. This device has something to do with quantum mechanics as it is described by the author and I want you to comment it a bit. The question is: Can this be real or it is just...

O.k., so I'm a nerd. I like occationally checking out the U.S. patent site for nifty new ideas, which, I'll admit, is a bit like looking through the dictionary for words I'm not familiar with (another of my less than sexy habits), but THIS time I found something you don't see everyday. It's a...

Lets say that I have for example, an idea for a cool new way to bottle ketsup. How would I go about patenting it and selling it to Heinz?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/11/1111_051111_junk_patent.html

I don't normally copy off a journal verbatim, but this news is quite relevant especially with the FLOOD of people posting about this due to the news report in the UK. This is from the Nov. 10, 2005 issue of Nature: Zz.

Hello :blushing: I need help trying to figure this out: Patent blue V is a food coloring designed under the code E 131. Using a scales of blue tints, we hope to determine the molar concentration of patent blue in a solution used to color candy in a candy shop. We make a range of tints...

I don't know if this goes in this forum or in the politics and world affairs, take a look: The patent applications were published in February 2005 at the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva. A Greenpeace researcher who monitors patent applications, Christoph Then...

See the web page: http://www.geocities.com/rolfguthma...ent/patent.html This new patent has the best explanation on the gravity anomaly observed of the experience accomplished by Eng. Russian Eugene Podkletnov in Tampere/Finland in 1996. See the site: Podkletnov's basic article (1995)...

"High tech mousing that not only kills but crushes and incinerates the victim is offered in a trap devised by Texan Ted M. Moss. His enclosed apparatus lures a doomed rodent into a cylindrical chamber with bait. An electric eye senses the presence of the mouse and actuates a spring driven...

This guy is effectively asking for donations on EBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2193742726&category=14431 This is the patent...