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Posted by David Tebbutt on 11th August 2008.
Over the weekend, I was invited to attend the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco (Sep 3-5). It would require a degree of diary shuffling and careful planning to justify my attendance. It still gobbles fuel, time and money so I’m still trying to decide what to do for the best.
No doubt the conference presentations [...]
Posted by David Tebbutt on 14th July 2008.
Toby Moores is a businessman whose stock in trade is ideas. His company generates them by the thousand, filters out those most likely to succeed and then has a stab at commercialising them. The business, called SleepyDog, has had a few major ‘hits’, most notably in the field of mobile telephony security and later with [...]
Posted by Rowena Mead on 25th January 2008.
In the seventh of her monthly blog posts young entrepreneur and inventor Rowena Mead stays patient, has encouraging discussions with multi-nationals and answers some questions.
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Hello again, apologies for my delayed posting, but I’ve been waiting tentatively for quite some time for the results of my meetings with several big multi-nationals. I’ve also been waiting [...]
Posted by Rowena Mead on 14th June 2007.
In the second of her monthly blog posts charting her journey towards taking an invention to market, young entrepreneur Rowena Mead describes her next steps on the path to protecting her idea.
Previous entries in the series:
1. Diary Of A Young Entrepreneur - innovation or bust?
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Finding A Patent Attorney
After finding only one patent application in Japan [...]
Posted by Steve van Dulken on 7th June 2007.
In the second of his posts on intellectual property issues, SmallBizPod’s guest blogger, Steve Van Dulken from the British Library’s Business & Intellectual Property Centre, continues his look at different methods of protecting an innovative product.
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Following on from the discussion of patents in relation to the Reebok© Pump shoe last month, a second form of [...]
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