Word: patentable
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...Korean International Property Office (KIPO) initially revoked Itempool's class 112 trademark. However, the KIPO decision was nullified in an Itempool appeal to a higher patent court in March, and the "Harvard Reader" trademark was revalidated in Itempool's favor--until yesterday...
...question was whether the name Harvard is prominent enough to prevent us from granting patent rights to the plaintiff," Kim Yong-sup, a judge and spokesperson for the Supreme Court, told the Associated Press yesterday. "The court decision...
Further information is available at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office at 1-800-786-9199 or on its website, uspto.gov...
...they say, is history. Johnson, a small-town prodigy called the Professor by his high school buddies, had wrought one of the best-selling toys ever: the Super Soaker, a pump-action water gun capable of streaming water 50 feet. In the 12 years since he first got U.S. Patent No. 4,591,071 for the "squirt gun," as it is listed in official government records, more than 200 million Super Soakers have been sold. Revenue estimates for the gun range as high as $400 million. "Lonnie is the American success story," says Dick Apley, director of independent inventor programs...
...already include passages about Johnson's success as an African-American inventor, showing his work next to the everyday inventions of other black scientists and engineers who are relative unknowns: the man who invented refrigerated trucks, the woman who developed a machine for hair permanents or the man who patented the automatic traffic signal. Officials from the Patent Office, which reports that only 6% of patent applications come from blacks, hail Johnson as a role model and cite his Super Soaker to capture the imagination of schoolchildren...