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Entrepreneurs: Get to know pending design patent law changes
A design patent is a patent that typically protects the ornamental design of a functional object. For example, jewelry, food containers, and computer icons are all examples of functional objects that can have an ornamental design that can be protected by a design patent. International protection for designs is very expensive for U.S. filers. Currently,…
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The race has begun: First-to-file under the America Invents Act is here
Inventors—if you are not practicing your sprint drills…you should be. The race to the Patent Office has begun and there is no ribbon for second place. Prior to March 16, 2013, the United States was a first-to-invent country. Although there could be exceptions to the rule, the date of invention in the United States was…
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David Milligan of Advent IP to present Thursday night at Cornstalks
David Milligan, founding partner of Advent IP and co-founder of Leap Ventures, will present at this month’s meeting of Cornstalks, which takes place at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at CAMP Coworking in the the Mastercraft Building (1111 N. 13th St.). More on Milligan, courtesy of the Advent IP website: David is a founding partner of Advent…
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Midlands Business Journal unveils its 10th annual ’40 Under 40′
The Midlands Business Journal has announced its 10th annual “40 Under 40” class, a group of 40 of the greater Omaha area’s top entrepreneurs, executives and professionals under the age of 40. The MBJ also named Chris Hughes of Artifact Bag Co. its Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Hughes and this year’s 40 Under 40…
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Prairie Moves: Dave Medema, Erik Antonson, Charise Flynn and more
Published every Tuesday (one day late this week), Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please…
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David Milligan & Kevin West give the rundown on patents
At last month’s Midlands Venture Forum gathering, David Milligan and Kevin West, both patent attorneys at Advent IP, gave a 25-minute presentation on patents. In his opening remarks, Milligan introduced their talk with a one-sentence summary. “We’re basically going to go through what we would consider kind of an assessment of…
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Prairie Moves: Allied Strategy, Phenomblue, Dwolla & more
(Photo by IndigoValley via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post,…
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Prairie Moves: Advent IP adds two, Smelly Puppy releases app & more
(Photo by Let Ideas Compete via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie…
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Prairie Moves: BitMethod hires two, Corn Finger previews mittens & more
While keeping an eye on Twitter, company blogs, and press releases sent to info@siliconprairienews.com, we see quite a bit of movement on the Silicon Prairie. Although a majority of these pieces of information haven’t made their way to our blog in the past, we think it’s time we begin to spread the word about them.…