The professional or amateur status of an inventor is relevant, since professional inventors earn ordinary income.
It was invented by Stan Ovshinsky, an inventor beloved by engineers and scored by many investors.
Yet his greatest pride was to be not just an enabler, but an inventor.
He is listed as an inventor on a patent application for using prasugrel to treat vascular disease.
Had he been an entrepreneur as well as an inventor he might indeed have made a fortune.
By 1994 an inventor named David Huber got 16 information streams to go down the same glass wire.
Nothing is changed if we change the example to an inventor in India or an entrepreneur in China.
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Walt Disney was an inventor and marketer par excellence from a different era.
Co-founded by an inventor and an accountant, Matias is a leading keyboard manufacturer, especially popular in the Mac market.
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Kurzweil is an inventor who has been called the successor to Thomas Edison.
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Commissioner, an inventor with 21 inventions and several patents was not a professional so was entitled to capital gain.
Commissioner, an inventor with 37 patents over 19 years was ruled a professional.
If Lemelson had been required to do that, his record as an inventor might have been a lot shorter.
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He was a painter, an inventor, a scientist, a mathematician, a writer, and one of the patron saints of geekdom.
One reason for this is that in the device field, the very surgeon performing the operation is often an inventor, too.
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Sorenson went on to excel as an inventor, developing such medical necessities as the disposable surgical mask and a thin-walled steel needle.
One great justification for NPEs is that they can provide the actual capital and willingness to defend property rights where an inventor simply cannot.
As fantastic as Stern was as an inventor, he was also a beloved grandfather to Joanna Stern, one of the industry's premiere technology reporters.
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It is an unpleasant task to point out a possibly sinister purpose on the part of an inventor of conceded genius and ostensibly benevolent intentions.
Coincidentally, an inventor of an early mobile dialysis machine, Dr. Norman Lasker, just died and today had an obituary today in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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The system was established as a trade-off that provides a public benefit: the state agrees to grant a limited monopoly to an inventor in return for disclosing how the technology works.
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"This type of technology is not something humankind would use as a 'Plan A' or 'Plan B, '" Paul "Pablos" Holman, an inventor in the Intellectual Ventures laboratory, wrote on the company blog.
As an inventor, entrepreneur and currently the director of Product Innovation for SolidWorks, Chin has been a pioneer of 3 Dimensional printing, digital modeling software and, more recently, sustainable design practices.
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Under first-to-file, an inventor who does not take prompt action to protect his or her invention faces a higher risk that a later inventor will end up holding the associated U.S. patent rights.
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AE37 has also been studied in combonation with Herceptin, in a preliminary study of 100 or so subjects, as outlined in a patent that lists the same Col G Peoples as an inventor.
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As with many other products--including tungsten-filament lightbulbs, X-ray machines and jet engines--GE bought patents from an inventor to get into the turbine business, then refined the design and manufacturing techniques ( see time line).
So if an inventor shows her invention working at a trade show, demonstrates it for an angel investor group or offers a single unit for sale, it will not receive a patent even if she applies the next day.
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