Procida, Chimenti and Santella tried to sell their invention to ResMed in 2009, to no avail.
We ask ourselves, how can we link serendipitous invention to something we are doing?
For anyone with an invention to sell, patent and intellectual property protection is their first priority.
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However, Brazil might not want their musical invention to follow quite the same path as the vuvuzela.
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That drug made it from invention to approval in a mere eight years.
It's all too easy, history reminds us, for self-invention to slip into self-delusion.
Brown wants his invention to have similar mass appeal when the World Cup arrives in Brazil for its fiesta of football.
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Entering a business competition was just one of the ways company owner David Larsen hopes to bring the invention to light.
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Then, if the invention is accepted for crowd-sourced development, the inventor must assign all intellectual property associated with the invention to Quirky.
Remember it took the U.S. less than four years to go from the invention to the use of atomic weapons during World War II.
Arsenal were not at their flowing best, but demonstrated enough touches of their trademark invention to build on an impressive start to the season.
He tried to sell the invention to Aston Villa, his local team, who weren't interested so he went across the Midlands to Nottingham Forest who were more enthusiastic.
Johnson's progress since his switch to City in January has been rapid and his trickery and pace gives his side the unpredictability and invention to break down stubborn opposition.
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.
Founded in 1895 as U.S. Voting Machine Co. to exploit Thomas Edison's pioneering invention to make elections more honest, the company plodded along for decades and was sold to Rockwell International.
"I believe this is a game-changer invention to improve the efficiency of LCD displays, " said Yang Yang, a professor of materials science at UCLA Engineering and principal investigator on the research.
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Founded in 1895 as U.S. Voting Machine Co. to exploit Thomas Edison's pioneering invention to make elections more honest, the company plodded along for decades and was eventually sold to Rockwell International.
"Back when I first studied brewing, I thought, there must be a better way so I set to work to find one, " says Heiliger, who wants production of his invention to remain in Germany.
Speaking about the invention to Ugandan newspaper New Vision, one of the inventors, Aaron Tushabe, said they conceived the idea of inventing the device after visiting the antenatal department at a local hospital.
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But pharmaceutical companies get far fewer years of sales than that because it can take eight years or more after invention to accumulate enough data to get a drug past the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
And where invention and goals were required, the Italian side, who are third in Serie A, once again misfired in a tame display that lacked the necessary ideas and invention to break down the German outfit.
Kushner employs a similarly eerie confidence throughout her novel, which constantly entwines the invented with the real, and she often uses the power of invention to give her fiction the authenticity of the reportorial, the solidity of the historical.
Though there is no reason to use Dr Knight's invention to replace existing optical fibres, it could, by varying the spacing of the air-filled tubes, make a handy filter allowing selected wavelengths (and the messages they carry) to enter or leave the waveguide while the others are contained.
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.
In order to win over manufacturers, Fenelon had to test his invention seven ways to Sunday.
Societies were open to invention precisely because rulers wanted to be on the cutting edge of military technology.
Wallman's variation on this invention is to let the investor hold widely diversified portfolios directly.
But whether the government will have any more luck in controlling the spread of his invention remains to be seen.
Now Florida citrus growers are arguing that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office blundered by giving invention status to a recipe.
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