Sep
05
2011

I, the inventor

Filing a patent applications is expensive. The USPTO’s small entity filing fee is currently $462. Much more expensive, however, is the drafting of a patent application by a patent attorney or patent agent.  According to the 2011 AIPLA Economy Survey the typical cost is about $300 per hour,  or $7000 for an average application. That’s a […]

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Oct
08
2009

Pepsi patents animated logo

Who says an animation can’t be patented?  Just file several patents in a row… This shows an animated PepsiCo logo that has been patented in consecutive Design Patents D601573 through D601577.

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Oct
08
2009

Horse Shoe

Another one of those examples how design patents make the world a richer place. Would be interesting to see this patent being litigated. I suspect that prior art will primarily be found outside of patents – which seems a lot harder for the Patent Office to find.

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Oct
01
2009

Pretty Screw

Isn’t this a pretty screw? The USPTO just granted a design patent (D601004) for this truly novel and non-obvious design of a screw.

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Sep
16
2006

Patent Agent!

A few weeks ago I passed the “patent bar exam” and am now officially a registered patent agent with my very own registration number: 59184. By the way: My study material is also available on the web at Patentbarquestions.com – the page was a nice motivation to sort everything I had read about the patent […]

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Jul
27
2006

XM Navtraffic

One of the most interesting projects I had a chance to lead: Getting XM Navtraffic into the 2005 Cadillac CTS: http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=165057

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Jul
10
2006

Online Banking Security Liability

I just read through the “Web Safety Guarantee” of everbank. The guarantee covers 100% of any losses due to “A computer crime that EverBank security system fails to prevent”. That seems awefully generous, given the poor web safety standard of US banks in general and EverBank in particular compared e.g. to their German counterparts. I […]

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Jun
12
2006

My latest project

Here is a link to my latest project: A US-Patent Wiki for German inventors. It’ll one day be a comprehensive information source especially for German inventors interested in obtaining a US Patent.

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Apr
14
2006

My Patents

I thought it might be neat to have all my patent / patent applications on one page… ended up taking longer to compile than I anticipated… Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Identifikation eines Fahrzeugnutzers Innenrückspiegel für Kraftfahrzeuge Vorrichtung für Kraftfahrzeuge zur Benutzeridentifikation Tragbare Sende- und Empfangsvorrichtung zur Personenidentifikation VERFAHREN ZUR REGELUNG DER LEISTUNG EINES ELEKTRISCHEN GENERATORS […]

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Apr
08
2006

I wish my Tivo could…

Tivo is great. It does have one disadvantage though: Tornado Warnings typically reach me about 2-5 days after the fact. And even though it is always fun trying to remember what the weather was like that day it kind of defeats the purpose of a warning. The feature I would like to see: A Tivo […]

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