In September 2011, President Obama signed the American Invent Act (AIA). As part of this act, in March 2013, the United States patent system will change from a first-to-invent (FTI) system to a first-to-file (FTF) system. The FIF system will represen ...
Posted Tuesday, November 13th 2012 at 9:03AM
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These new products provide a process that helps people identify the appropriate protection (patent, copyright or trademark) for their ideas. Also included is basic information about patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets, and descriptions ...
Posted Thursday, November 1st 2012 at 4:15PM
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The story is a familiar one. An individual has an idea for a product. They submit the product idea to companies, but none of the companies are interested it. The individual is puzzled because this product would be a sure-fire success. In addition ...
Posted Friday, May 18th 2012 at 4:12PM
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Our creativity is consistent with God’s character and is a means through which God desires to implement God’s kingdom plans on earth. A major source of creativity is ministry activities in local churches and other religious organizations. Ministr ...
Posted Friday, February 17th 2012 at 1:52PM
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These new products define patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets, describe the differences between each form of protection and identify the types of ideas that each one protects. When some people conceive an idea, their first thought is to ...
Posted Wednesday, November 2nd 2011 at 3:48PM
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This new app titled 'Patents 4 You' defines patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets, describes the differences between and identifies the types of ideas that each one protects. When some people conceive an idea, their first thought is to p ...
Posted Wednesday, June 8th 2011 at 11:38PM
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God can deliver a person from a difficult economic situation. The Biblical basis is 2 Kings 4:1-7. God delivered a woman from her debt crisis through a process that established her in business and enabled her to generate more money than she needed ...
Posted Wednesday, September 15th 2010 at 3:42PM
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What is God going to do to address these difficult economic conditions? If God has given you an idea, God already has done something. God gives His children ideas to develop that can result in the creation of wealth for individuals and communities. ...
Posted Thursday, April 8th 2010 at 6:05PM
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Our creativity is one of the most underutilized attributes we have. The fact that a person has an idea that can lead to the development of useful products and services is consistent with the creative character of God. The exciting part is that every ...
Posted Thursday, February 4th 2010 at 3:28PM
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The acronym “dba” stands for the phrase “doing business as”. A “dba” is a formal declaration that a person or other entity is conducting business under a certain name. When a new business starts, one of the first things the business owner does ...
Posted Monday, January 25th 2010 at 9:27PM
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The story is a familiar one. An individual has an idea for a product. They submit the product idea to companies, but none of the companies are interested it. The individual is puzzled because this product would be a sure-fire success. In addition ...
Posted Thursday, January 21st 2010 at 3:38PM
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During 2009, it has been a routine practice for companies to cut jobs and leave people out of work. Currently, unemployment hovers around ten percent (10%). Reports suggest that for every job opening there are six applicants seeking that job. Ma ...
Posted Thursday, January 21st 2010 at 3:27PM
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When one door gets closed, God can open up another door. What seems like the end can really be a beginning. What seems like the worst thing that could happen to you is really the best thing that could happen to you. Someone loses their job. That ...
Posted Friday, August 21st 2009 at 2:19PM
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The Myth of the Poor Man’s Patent
Everyday people conceive novel ideas for products and services. However, many of these ideas go undeveloped. Several factors contribute to people not pursuing their ideas. In addition to a lack of confidence an ...
Posted Wednesday, August 19th 2009 at 1:01PM
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I was thinking about how ridiculous and absurd it must have sounded that David wanted to fight Goliath. David had ridiculous faith. He believed something many (including his brothers) probably thought was ridiculous. We need that same kind of faith ...
Posted Thursday, July 23rd 2009 at 12:32PM
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In the 1970s, W. Leo Daniels preached a sermon titled “Build Your Own Fire”. In this sermon, he discussed how Peter warmed by the enemies fire instead of building his own fire. If Peter was cold, he should have built his own fire instead of taking ...
Posted Thursday, July 9th 2009 at 9:58PM
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Monday's Wall Street Journal (on-line) had a story about a man that had a job on Wall Street but lost it in 2007. HIs salary was more than $200K. He is now working for a restaurant for about $25K. I wonder why someone who has enough skills to get ...
Posted Thursday, June 4th 2009 at 7:13PM
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Regardless of whether it is a book, article, blog, email, text message or note on a piece of paper, it is important to be careful about what you write down. What you write can be used against you. People have gone to jail based on the content of tex ...
Posted Wednesday, May 27th 2009 at 1:28PM
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While participating in a recent book expo, I was amazed at the number of people who still believe the myth of the “Poor Man’s Patent”. The commonly known “Poor Man’s Patent” is a document created by a person in an attempt to protect his or her idea/ ...
Posted Tuesday, May 26th 2009 at 9:18AM
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You've got the power, but are you using it? When my den is dark, it could be because the house is not connected to the power line or it could be because I have not turned on the light switch (the power). We are connected to the power source, but we h ...
Posted Saturday, May 23rd 2009 at 3:54PM
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In Mark 16, Mary Magdalene, Mary the Mother of James and Salome were on their way to Jesus’ tomb to anoint his body. As they walked to the tomb, they discussed who would role away the stone from in front of the tomb. They knew that a very large sto ...
Posted Monday, April 13th 2009 at 12:38AM
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Many inventors and artists face the decision of whether they should secure their own protection for their ideas and artistic works or whether they should retain qualified professionals to assist them in this process. The obvious reason for doing it ...
Posted Sunday, April 12th 2009 at 7:17PM
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The Poor Man’s Patent
The commonly known “Poor Man’s Patent” is a document created by a person in an attempt to protect his or her idea/invention. In this practice, an inventor prepares a written description of their invention, places it in a sel ...
Posted Saturday, April 11th 2009 at 2:12PM
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Just think, having the ability and capability to treat serious illnesses without invading the body with surgery or chemicals. A teenager from Georgia has conceived a system and procedure that can do just that. Benefits of this system are:
Non-eva ...
Posted Thursday, April 2nd 2009 at 11:20AM
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Patents cover the underlining concept of an idea. Copyrights cover the expression of an idea. One idea concept can have multiple expressions or implementations. One patent can cover all implementations of an idea. However, each implementation wou ...
Posted Tuesday, March 31st 2009 at 10:36AM
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