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A boutique patent agency providing patent services specializing in recreation goods, consumer products, military tech, and medical devices.
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We dig into the tech and patent applications behind the RZ Mask. #Patents101 #Patents #ToiletPaper #Coronavirus #covid #IntellectualProperty #EveryDayPatents #maskup #covid19 #covidmask by @vozpatents
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Today we unroll the mystery of toilet paper. #FoundPatents #Patents101 #Patents #ToiletPaper #CoronaBeard #loorolls #IntellectualProperty #EveryDayPatents by @vozpatents
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Today’s #facetimefriday we dive into a countertop beverage chiller and the patents around it. #Patents101 #IntellectualProperty #FoundPatents #Patents by @vozpatents
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#patents101 #foundpatents #facetimefriday #intellectualproperty @_husky_tools_ by @vozpatents
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We love the winter, the snow, and the mountains. But Denver seems to love to toss these 70-degree spring days in the midst of the cold and we absolutely love it. Today we are thinking back on the last winter respite and our companion for the day. Neighbor dog, and resident muppet — @zekebrowngravy. We took Zeke out for a park session and tossed the ball around. Or at least we tried to, and Zeke kept “forgetting” to give the ball back. Regardless we were ecstatic to be out and about. Most exciting of all… we found a patent right in our hands! 🤓What? Zeke gets excited about a tennis ball, and we get excited about patents. 🤷🏽‍♂️ Don’t judge. If you don’t… you might eat your pizza with a fork and knife… but let’s move on. Regardless of your love for dogs, you likely don’t enjoy dog slobber. And we all know [Dog + Tennis Ball = Slobber]. This could have been Einstein’s second most important theory, but it was eclipsed by some silly equation about “relativity". Our esteemed inventor Mark Oblack must have been a fan of Einstein’s. Or perhaps just hated dog slobber, so much so that he developed a handy “Ball Throwing Apparatus and Method” to protect us from the slimy goo that builds upon an overly fetched tennis ball. Enter the Chuckit!®. A dog throwing toy that saves you from the heebie-jeebies, the cooties, and throwing out your arm too. So perfectly simple. The Chuckit!® patent has since expired — October 5, 2018 — 20 years from the filing date. But not before Chuckit! established itself as a leading company in the design and manufacture of dog toys. And at least 38 patents for these dog toys name Mr. Mark Oblack. That deserves a pat on the head. Who’s a good inventor? Who’s a good inventor? U.S. Patent No. 6.076,829; Inventor: Mark Oblack #patents101 #foundpatents #patents #intelectualproperty #everydayinventions #boopsnoot @chuckitfetchgames #chuckit #dogsrule taken in Denver, Colorado by @vozpatents
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History, Controversy, and Transcendence — The Paperclip Story The lowly paperclip. An artifact which has survived an industrial revolution, a holdover from a paper-centric world in our increasingly digital age, and deep hatred upon appropriation by Microsoft® for “Clippy”, their infamously annoying virtual assistant. The paperclip is often credited to Norwegian inventor Johan Vaalor who received a patent in 1901. It was due to this Norwegian attribution to their fellow countryman, that when the Nazi’s invaded Norway and banned the wearing of buttons with the likeness of their King — they wore a paperclip instead. A sort of quiet-riot to show their unity as a nation. Afterall, a paperclip was designed to unify paper — Why not people? But as you might notice, Vaaler's paperclip doesn’t look quite the same as the paperclip we use today. It is missing a third 180º turn of the commonly named “Gem” paperclip. That is because — wait for it — Vaaler did NOT invent the paperclip of today. In fact, his design wasn’t even patented prior to the Gem clip. Nobody knows who the Gem paperclip design was originally conceived by, but we do know that the Gem clip was first documented in the patent of William Middlebrook of CONNECTicut. (See what we did there?) Middlebrook’s invention was not based on the design of the Gem paperclip, but rather the machine for efficiently making Gem paperclips, which he then sold to the Gem Manufacturing Company. The date on this patent? April of 1899, over 2 years prior to that of Vaaler's. It gets better. In 1989, in the truest show of irony, a 23-foot tall statue was erected near the University of Oslo in commemoration of Johan Vaaler and his accomplishments. But the paperclip they used was a monstrous version of not Vaaler’s invention — but the now transcendent Gem paperclip which predated Vaaler’s invention. 🤦🏽‍♂️ I mean… at least they didn’t add googly eyes and a distracting text bubble. #patents101 #patenthistory #paperclip #everydayinventions #patents #inventions #invention taken in Denver, Colorado by @vozpatents
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Innovation arrives in increments. Don’t feel like you have to recreate the wheel. While looking over a colleague’s shotgun he inherited from his grandfather we found ourselves appreciating Americana in its truest form — Ingenuity. We couldn’t resist snapping a couple pictures of this Savage Arms shotgun once we discovered the patent stamped in the barrel, curious to find out what set this one apart from the rest. From our research, this particular weapon was manufactured between September 1975 and February 1979. For likely centuries, shotgun top-rib sights were solid steel and welded to the shotgun. Manufacturing a perfectly flat top-rib for sighting was problematic enough, but when a top-rib broke loose, was no longer true, or needed resurfacing — it was an ordeal. Adding a hefty chunk of steel to an already weighty firearm didn't exactly win folks over either. Our industrious (and aptly named) inventor, Henry Lockwood had enough. We don’t know if he was a shotgun owner, a gunsmith… or just tired of hearing people complain. What we do know is that he chose to reconfigure the top-rib of shotguns in spite of a long established status quo. The result was a top-rib that was a much lighter, and much easier to fix top-rib. it took only a screw-driver and a replacement on hand. Easy Peasy. So Mr. Lockwood didn’t reinvent the shotgun. He didn’t even invent a new part for it altogether. He recognized a common recurring complaint, took the standard accepted solution, and reimagined it. And if you’re now hungry and thinking of ribs… you’re not alone. SHOTGUN SIGHT U.S. Patent No. 3,005,263, Issued: December 5, 1958 Inventor: Henry K. Lockwood #foundpatents #patents #intellectualproperty #shotgun @savagearms #gunsmith #firearms #ingenuity taken in Denver, Colorado by @vozpatents
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Sure you can describe what your invention IS. But have you described what your invention COULD BE? The inventors of Popsockets®, according to their patent, once envisioned two of their collapsible devices attached the back of a phone case so that headphone cables could be wrapped around them. Had they only seen their invention for this one embodiment, rather than what it could be — a single collapsible device adhered directly to a phone — they might have failed to protect the golden goose that laid before them. The best way to capture what your invention "could be" is by being broad in the description of your patent. Some mistake this with making a patent “vague.” **DANGER** This couldn’t be further from the truth. A vague patent application, or one that withholds information, is not only at risk of not making it through to grant… it also risks invalidity even if you do make it through. Think of it like this — A broad patent details a slew of embodiments, and sometimes doing so with a mix-n-match sort of strategy. So while one embodiment of that patent may cover a bucket-worth of sand, the many embodiments covers the whole sand box from which you get to kick others out of during the life of your issued patent. So what did a properly written patent beget former CU Boulder philosophy professor turned PopSocket® founder/inventor/CEO? As of 2018 PopSockets® crossed the threshold of 100 million units sold, and reported revenues of over $200MM and profits over $90MM. 🎤-drop EXTENDING SOCKET FOR PORTABLE MEDIA PLAYER U.S. Patent No. 8,560,031 Inventors: David B. Barnett & Lawrence E. Carlson #foundpatents #patents #intellectualproperty #gadgets #iPhone #android #ingenuity @popsockets #boulder #Colorado taken in Denver, Colorado by @vozpatents
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Really cool to have been featured on an industry blog I’ve followed for years! Thanks for the shoutout @erinmmcdermott! #Repost @erinmmcdermott with @get_repost ・・・ #DenverStartupWeek was definitely worth going to! So many companies and people to tag in this @solidsmack article and video — not sure I can fit them all in. Go here for the highlights in both: https://www.solidsmack.com/cad-design-news/denver-startup-week-2019-highlights/ @robauto.ai @beatriceforms @pupptech @ifuzionllc @outdoor.element @cipherskininc @karvtrak @golfkicks.co @cghabitats @yocisco @zebulonsolutionsllc @slingshotassembly @vozpatents #denstartupweek #patents #ingenuity #innovation taken in Denver, Colorado by @vozpatents
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We here at Voz Patents are professionals, and we are nerds; maybe even professional nerds. So when wood-turning extraordinaire @ashleyharwoodturning posted a picture of her new-fangled eyeglass mounted pencil holder/sharpener asking rhetorically if there was anything nerdier, we did what any self-respecting nerd would do. We answered that rhetorical question — “Challenge Accepted.” . A quick search turned up exactly what we had hoped for. A patent! A design patent to be precise. Something that has “utility” or functionality would generally be protected under a utility patent. But when form follows function, a design patent can provide a fair bit of coverage for a fraction of the cost and time. The brothers Sullivan (Mark and Patrick who we assume are brothers) seem displeased with the state of the art in pencil holders. Pocket protectors be damned! So they created the pencil holder, which doubles as a sharpener that stores your pencil where most of us forget them in the first place — behind our ear. And in the event you are a maker and you don’t follow Ashley Harwood… Why are you even still here? COMBINED SAFETY GLASSES AND PENCIL HOLDER AND PENCIL SHARPENER THEREFOR U.S. Design Patent No. D676,895 Inventors: Mark D. Sullivan and Patrick F. Sullivan #foundpatents #patents #intellectualproperty #woodworking #makertools #makermovement #woodturning #gadgets #designpatent #ingenuity taken in Denver, Colorado by @vozpatents
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While working in our workshop in some downtime we spied the tiniest little patent number on a device clamped to the cable of our Dremel® Multimax tool. “Do Not Remove” it states so authoritatively. The title of the patent reads, “Article surveillance unit and assemblies therewith”. What‽ Surveillance‽ Calm down, big brother isn’t tracking me through my power-tool. This is a theft deterrent device. The invention provides an attachment assembly for a security tag to an electrical cable. So rather than simply having to find a sticker-tag stuck to the outside or even inside of a package, a would-be thief would have to remove this little sucker without damaging the power cord in order to remove it from the store surreptitiously. So what I’m trying to say is that there is a patent protecting the invention, that protected my Dremel® from being stolen. That’s kinda cool. ARTICLE SURVEILLANCE UNIT AND ASSEMBLIES THEREWITH — U.S. Patent No. 6,589,067; Inventors: Chester Kolton, Michael Norma, Robert Whittemore #foundpatents #patents #intellectualproperty #woodworking #makertools @dremel taken in Denver, Colorado by @vozpatents
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I never grow tired of seeing the new letters patent design since we surpassed number 10 Million. #patents #patent #uspto @uspto #innovation #ingenuity taken in Denver, Colorado by @vozpatents
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