It is not an overstatement to say that American inventors have faced a perfect storm of judicial and legislative hurdles in recent years, hurdles that have weakened their intellectual property rights and undermined their potential rewards and… Read More »
Despite the popularity of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, which tells the tale of greedy politicians left with nothing to plunder after innovators and producers go on strike, society seems to miss that essential message and find a… Read More »
Can a bunch of water balloons be worth $20 million? To Josh Malone, and many inventors like him, they can be worth that and a lot more. Malone, a father of eight and survivor of many spirited… Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court has muddied the waters about patent eligibility in a way that threatens American innovation. Capitol Hill is beginning to discuss this as a possible legislative issue for 2019. Some would say it is… Read More »
America is unique in its tradition of protecting individual ingenuity to spur new technologies and new industries that allow this country to be the cradle of innovation. It is no accident that America was the birthplace of… Read More »
In 2003, after many years of research, scientists at Ohio’s premier health care research institution, the Cleveland Clinic, made a groundbreaking and lifesaving discovery — they determined how to detect an enzyme called myeloperoxidase in the human… Read More »
On Friday, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will open the “Gateway to Culture,” part of a new “Arts and Culture” wing that will be devoted to music, sports and entertainment. It is the first of… Read More »
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, housed in the building that formerly was the U.S. Patent Office, displays an 1862 painting titled “Men of Progress.” It depicts some of the great American inventors of the 19th century: Cyrus… Read More »
The Trump administration started its trade war this year with China under the auspices of countering Beijing’s theft of U.S. intellectual property. There is no doubt that China, with its Made in China 2025 plan, has been… Read More »
In 1871, Margaret Knight earned a patent for inventing a brown paper bag with a flat bottom, the same model that is used in most grocery stores to this day. More than a century later, African American inventor Lonnie Johnson received… Read More »
