Thankfully, a new invention out of Japan promises to keep surgeons from taking practice swings at your noggin.
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To encourage homegrown American innovation we should make it easier to patent a new idea or a new invention.
Schmidt says there is always a possibility of a new invention.
Yet it also seems unfair to take money from those who have worked hard and give it to those who have not, or to take away the profits of those who have risked their life savings to bring a new invention to market in order to help those who have risked nothing.
Our patent system was originally designed to foster innovation, and allow any person with a new, useful invention to practice the invention exclusively for a fixed period of time.
If they prove a success, these experiments could spur the invention of a host of new designer materials.
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In other words, nearly three-quarters of these new jobs are a statistical invention.
Like all great game-changers and market makers, Kodak had democratized photography, making it available and affordable to the masses with another key, often overlooked, invention: a new business system and product ecosystem.
Mr Rich had brought along some samples of his new invention, a concoction of soy-oil shortening, isolated soya protein, corn syrup and water, in the hopes of persuading them that this could taste as yummy, and whip as lightly, as heavy cream.
Initially, patents were used to protect a specific implementation of an invention that was a feature of a new product, a method of making the product, or a new service.
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But every new invention must have a purpose for its survival.
As technology proceeds in a patent-obsessed world, the fruits of innovation flow to the owners of the capital and invention, forming a whole new rentier class.
He has already carefully accumulated a series of basic patents to protect his new invention.
Zappa disbanded the Mothers of Invention in 1969 to form a new line-up from 1970 until 1971, when he was injured by an audience member during a concert.
That may be about to change, thanks to the biggest breakthrough in the visual display of words and pictures since the invention of television--a new technology that promises a world where information is portable, cheap and stunningly vivid.
No surprise that, for every new venture that manages to turn an invention into a profitable innovation, hundreds of others fall by the wayside.
For his work, Masuoka says, he was awarded a few hundred dollars from Toshiba and only after a Japanese newspaper gave his new type of memory an award of invention of the year in 1988.
There are also reports that new Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi is working on a plan for huge invention.
That level of invention, which solves a generally unrecognized problem to create a new product category, or user experience, can be difficult to recognize in the conceptual stage.
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He is distinguishing between invention, the thinking up of or creation of a spiffy new thing, and innovation, the general adoption in the wider economy of that new spiffiness to do interesting things.
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Laying there in a sweat, late at night, we no longer have to dream up some new invention of an idea in order to start our businesses or make it big.
Drilling a 2 or 3 foot hole can be done with normal equipment, while drilling a ten, fifty, or one hundred foot diameter vertical hole would require an entirely new invention.
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For all of our supposed no-nonsense pragmatism, Americans are romantics, and one of the things we love most is the idea of the lone-wolf capitalist: the intrepid, solitary genius who toils in a lab or workshop or office, and suddenly comes up with some startling invention or new way of doing business.
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Is it better and more economically advantageous to invent something completely new, or take an existing invention and innovate on top of it by coming up with a commercially appealing product?
And not just at the Kitano, where I felt obligated to take the Toto Washlet S300 that's the name and model of the invention, manufactured in Japan, a fastidious culture where they've apparently taken hygiene to new heights for a test drive.
The genius of what Apple did was not invention, but adjacent innovation, in effect, combining the best innovations of others to create a completely new and singular experience.
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