NEVADA INVENTORS ASSOCIATION
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Nevada Inventor
Newsletter of the Nevada Inventors' Association, Inc.
Post Office Box 11008, Reno, NV 89510-1008 http://www.nevadainventors.org
January, 2000
U.S. Congress passed on November 19, 1999, the American
Inventors Protection Act of 1999 as part of the conference report (H. Rpt. 106-479) on
H.R. 3194, Consolidated Appropriations Act, Fiscal Year 2000. The text of the Amelican Inventors Protection Act
of 1999 is contained in Title IV of S. 1948, the Intellectual Property and Communications Omnibus Reform Act of
1999, which is incorporated by reference in Division B of the conference report. There are several issues that
are favorable to the independent inventor and to the patent system, including increased consumer protection nghts
to inventors who deal with marketing companies. Patent fees will be reduced approximately
10%, but Trademark fees will be increased. The PTO will be able to keep all of the revenues
it collects (Congress has been siphoning money from the PTO coffers for years). The PTO is a totally fee fimded
agency; not one dollar of tax payer money is used to fimd it. The "First Inventor
Defense" is limited strictly to methods of doing or conducting business (until a
recent court decision, this was not considered a patentable class of invention) and does not apply to any other
inventions. The "First Inventor Defense" could force
a patent holder to grant a free license to someone
with a trade secret.
This provision may be farther challenged in court.
Interview: Q. Todd Dickinson
U.S. Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks
Internet only webcast, online now at:
SamDonaldson@ABCNEWS . com
http //abcnews.go.com/onair/dailynews/samdonaldson_index.html
Featured Speaker at our next Meeting:
Harold (Hal) C. Newman, P.E.
Specialist in Mining and Metallurgical
Services also discovered Ichthyosaur
right here in Nevada!
Internet links:
http://web.mit.edu/invent/index.html
http://www.uspto.gov/
http://www.invent.org/inventure.html
http://www.inventorsdigest.com/
http://www.inventornet.com/
http://www.patents.ibm.com/
http://www.frompatenttoprofit.com
http: //www.inentorfraud.com/
http://www.inventnet.com
Calendar Year 2000
| President |
Randy Sloan |
747-3711 |
| Vice-president |
Alex Prokof |
323-1972 |
| Secretary/Treasurer |
Tony Patti |
677-4824 |
| Membership |
Kehl LeSourd |
853-0441 |
| Web Master |
Vince Chemist |
677-0123 |
| Program Director |
Charles Ketchem |
323-5654 |
Meeting Schedule, 2000
January 22, Washoe Medical, Room 101, 9am
February 26,
March 25,
April 22,
May 27,
June 24,
July 22,
August 26, Annual Picnic, Location TBA
September 23,
October 28,
November 25,
December 23, No Meeting Scheduled
The Portrait of the Inventor (eNTp)
c 1996 Prometheus Nemesis Book Company.
Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition it is the functional engineering or
inventive role that reaches the highest development in eNTps. It is so natural for these individuals to practice
devising gadgets and mechanisms, that they start doing it even as young children. And they get such a kick out
of it that they really never stop exercising their inventive bent. Of course as this kind of activity is practiced
some structural engineering inevitably happens, so that the next kind of skill to develop in the ENTP is that of
designing. Now planning contingencies and marshaling forces, though practiced in some degree in the course of engineering
activity, develop more slowly and are soon left behind by the burgeoning of talent in engineering. However, any
kind of strategic exercise tends to bring added strength to both engineering and organizing skills.As the eNTps'
engineering capabilities increase so does their desire to let others know about whatever has come of their engineering
efforts. So they tend to take up an informative role in their social exchanges. On the other hand they have less
and less desire, if they ever had any, to direct the activities of others, doing so only when forced to by circumstances.
As engineers of function eNTps wish to exercise their competence in the world of people and things,
and thus they deal imaginatively with social systems as well as physical and technological systems. They are very
alert to what is apt to occur next-under certain conditions, if certain criteria are met-and they are always sensitive
to possibilities. Found in two percent (at most) of the population, Inventors are good at functional analysis,
and have both a tolerance for and enjoyment of complex problems. Outgoing and intensely curious, eNTps are apt
to express interest in finding out about everything they come into contact with, and this can be a source of inspiration
to others, who find themselves admiring the eNTp's insatiable hunger for knowledge. eNTps are also endlessly inventive,
and are the most reluctant of all the types to do things in a particular manner just because that is the way things
have always been done. They characteristically have an eye out for a better way, always on the lookout for new
projects, new activities, new procedures. eNTps are confident in the value of their interests and display a charming
capacity to ignore the standard, the traditional, and the authoritative. As a result of this innovative attitude,
they often bring fresh, new approaches to their work and their lives.
PRESS RELEASE #00-03
JANUARY 11, 2000 CONTACT: Bridged Quinn
Maria V. Hernandez
703-305-8341
IBM REPEATS AT TOP OF PTO's ANNUAL LIST OF 10 ORGANIZATIONS RECElVING MOST PATENTS
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has announced the top ten
private sector patent recipients for the 1999 calendar year. Listed below are the ten corporations receiving the
most patents for inventions in 1999, along with their ranking last year. For the seventh straight year, IBM received
more utility patents than any other private sector organization.
The ten organizations with the most patents in 1999 consist of three U.S. corporations, six Japanese corporations,
and one corporation from the Republic of Korea.
Ranking in 1999 # Patents in 1999 (Ranking in 1998) (#Patents in 1998)
| 1 |
2,756 |
International Business Machines Corporation |
(1) |
(2,657) |
| 2 |
1,842 |
NEC Corporation |
(3) |
(1,627) |
| 3 |
1,795 |
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha |
(2) |
(1,928) |
| 4 |
1,545 |
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. |
(6) |
(1,304) |
| 5 |
1,409 |
Sony Corporation |
(5) |
(1,316) |
| 6 |
1,200 |
Toshiba Corporation |
(8) |
(1,170) |
| 7 |
1,193 |
Fujitsu Limited |
(7) |
(1,189) |
| 8 |
1,192 |
Motorola Inc. |
(4) |
(1,406) |
| 9 |
1,153 |
Lucent Technologies Inc. |
(13) |
(928) |
| 10 |
1,054 |
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha |
(11) |
(1,080) |
NOTE: The listed patent counts for 1999 are preliminary counts which are subject to correction.
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