Self-balancing gyro-stabilized scooter – The new era of solo-commuting Next-generation solo transportation phenomena that took the world’s two-wheeled market segment by a storm in the year 2014, was the gyro-stabilized self-balancing scooter. The trend still continues with a list of celebrities who have taken it to the social network themselves riding on this hoverboard-like scooter. […]
Passenger Safety Systems Passenger Safety has been an issue almost from the beginning of mechanised road vehicle development, which dates back to the 1700s. This is evident from the fact that nearly 1.3 million people die world-wide in road crashes each year, and an additional 20 – 50 million are injured or disabled. With crashes […]
X-rays In 1895 while working in his lab at Wuerzburg University in Germany, Professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen came to realize that world could change forever. He observed a fluorescent glow projected off crystals placed near a cathode-ray tube. That discovery triggered curiosity and with it the technology of the X-ray was born. Through his discovery, […]
Supercapacitor Body Panels The increased patenting activity and research articles, in the area of complementing or substituting the conventional ways of powering the vehicles, stand as evidence that the world is realizing the scarcity of fossil fuels and the importance of environment. It is time that many of us are bound to shift our vision […]
Bioremediation: A Green Revolution The Problem: The character of many of the pollutants and the rate at which they can pollute results in a rapid deterioration of the environment. Inorganic pollutants include heavy metals such as cadmium, mercury, lead, zinc and the like; nonmetallic compounds like arsenic, selenium, radioactive nuclear waste, and so on. Organic […]
United States Joins the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement – International Registration of Industrial Designs As of May 13th, 2015, inventors in the United States have new options for filing design patents in over 62 countries in one stroke. Previously, U.S. applicants seeking protection for industrial designs (design patents) in multiple nations had to […]
Legal Advantage LLC Welcomes Our New Colleague in Chicago Legal Advantage LLC is pleased to announce that Jeff Keenan (JK) has joined our office in downtown Chicago. JK hails from a background in digital and traditional art. He received his education from the American Academy of Art in 2004 in graphic design and fine arts. […]
USPTO Appoints New Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Operations Washington – The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced the appointment of Mary Boney Denison as Deputy Commissioner for Trademark Operations. In her new position, Ms. Denison will oversee the examination and processing of applications throughout the trademark operation. Ms. Denison is a founding […]
European Patent Office Applicant Increase in 2010 The European Patent Office (EPO) has published its 2010 patent filing statistics, and records have been broken. The EPO received 235,000 patent filings which is an 11% increase over 2009, and sets the records as the most patents files in the EPO’s 34 year history. EPO President Benoît […]
Peer to Patent System Launches in the UK The Minister for Intellectual property, Baroness Wilcox, launched an innovative new tool to help improve the patent application process where experts from the scientific and technology communities view and comment on patent applications. A six month pilot program will take place where 200 applications in the computing […]