The informative Rationals ( Architects and Inventors ) prefer theorizing, designing, and prototyping their ideas, so they can feel overburdened when called upon to finalize their ideas into practical operation by themselves.

The National Inventors Hall of Fame was founded in 1973 on the initiative of H. Hume Mathews, then chairman of the National Council of Patent Law Associations ( now called the National Council of Intellectual Property Law Associations ).

The National Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum is now located in Alexandria, Va.

The most notable of these was the Ferracute Machine Works, founded and operated by Oberlin Smith, an inventive genius and philanthropist credited with inventing the first device for magnetic recording, and now in the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame.

Inventors have developed mechanical labor-saving devices not only for the shop and office, but also for the home.

Inventors must hold a U. S. patent to be considered, and the invention must have contributed to the welfare of mankind and have promoted the progress of science and the useful arts.

Inventors and lawyers have a legal obligation to cite all relevant art ; not to do so risks invalidating the patent.

:" The Congress shall have Power ... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries ;"

Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the U. S. Constitution says, " The Congress shall have Power ... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

The national program, executed by Olympus in partnership with the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance ( NCIIA ), recognizes individuals who have fostered or demonstrated innovative thinking in education.

The Copyright Clause of the United States Constitution ( 1787 ) authorized copyright legislation: " To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

# That by retroactively extending copyright terms, Congress had violated the requirements of the Constitution's Copyright Clause, which gives Congress the following power: " To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries " ( emphasis added ) Plaintiffs argued that by reading this formulation so as to allow for any number of retroactive extensions, Congress could in practice guarantee an unlimited period of copyright protection, thus thwarting the intent of the clause.

Inventors often envision a new idea, seeing it in their mind's eye.

Inventors are often famous for their confidence, their perseverance and their passion.

Inventors of the OmniMech ( among other things ), Coyote scientists are renowned for their brilliance.

" To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries ;…"

* Inventors and their Bright Ideas ( 2002 )-Mike Goldsmith ( Inventors )

: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries ;

Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective ... Discoveries .” These scholars argue that this clause specifically prohibits a first-to-file system because the term " inventor " refers to a person who has created something that has not existed before.

It was viewed with distrust due to the possibility of abuse ; Edward Coke wrote that " there were two Inventors of Uses, Fear and Fraud ; Fear in Times of Troubles and civil Wars to save their Inheritances from being forfeited ; and Fraud to defeat due Debts, lawful Actions, Wards, Escheats, Mortmains etc ".

Inventors of theatrical effects took great pains to hold onto their secrets, and the playhouses guarded their machine workings as zealously as a magician guards her or his tricks.

United States patent law was established " to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries ;" as provided by the United States Constitution.

The United States Constitution, Section 8, allows Congress to grant patents: " by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries " without limiting such rights to product developers.

Inventors who are employees of a company generally sell or assign their patent rights to the company they work for.

In 2002, he was inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame.

IBM Research is home to 5 Nobel Laureates, 9 US National Medals of Technology, 5 US National Medals of Science, 6 Turing Awards, and 13 Inductees in the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Inventors paid a fee depending upon the desired term of the patent ( 5, 10, 15 years ), filed a description of the invention and were granted a patent.

Inventors may not achieve the ideal result ( French Academy of Science does not even take the patent applications for it ), but striving for this high ideal allowed inventors to create numerous mechanisms with minimum friction, thus moving technology forward.

The American Inventors Protection Act allowed pre-grant publication 18 months after filing unless the inventor certified that he would not be seeking patent protection abroad.

He was also involved in patent law and founded the National Inventors Council.

Since the American Inventors Protection Act, the United States Patent and Trademark Office publishes patent applications 18 months after they are filed for all applications with an effective filing date after November 28, 2000.

* Inventors Jim Bornhorst and Rusty Brutsche applied for a patent on Vari-Lite, a " computer controlled lighting system having automatically variable position, color, intensity and beam divergence ", which would become a standard feature in concerts and stage productions.

Inventors may, for example, try to improve something by making it more effective, healthier, faster, more efficient, easier to use, serve more purposes, longer lasting, cheaper, more ecologically friendly, or aesthetically different, lighter weight, more ergonomic, structurally different, with new light or color properties, etc.

The building in Akron is currently used by the National Inventors Hall of Fame School ... Center for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics ( STEM ) Learning, a middle school within the Akron Public Schools.

Lamarr wanted to join the National Inventors Council, but was reportedly told by NIC member Charles F. Kettering and others that she could better help the war effort by using her celebrity status to sell War Bonds.

She was recognized as one of the 50 most beautiful female inventors of all time by Inventors Weekly magazine.

The Foundation was instituted by Barnes Wallis using the money he received from the Royal Commission on Awards for Inventors for inventing the bouncing bomb

The cordierite ceramic substrate used in most catalytic converters was invented by Rodney Bagley, Irwin Lachman and Ronald Lewis at Corning Glass, for which they were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002.

The Young Inventors Awards ( YIA ) which began in 2000, was organized by FEER in association with Hewlett-Packard ( HP ).

For his contributions to science and industry, Willis Carrier was awarded an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree by Lehigh University in 1935 and an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by Alfred ( NY ) University in 1942 ; Carrier was awarded the Frank P. Brown Medal in 1942 ; and was inducted posthumously in the National Inventors Hall of Fame ( 1985 ) and the Buffalo Science Museum Hall of Fame ( 2008 ).

Category: Inventors by nationality

Category: Inventors by nationality

In 2006, Gideon Sundback was honored by inclusion in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his work on the development of the zipper.

In 1920 he was invited to make a claim — which was unsuccessfully contested by the Clerget licensees — and was later awarded £ 8, 000 from the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors.

Category: Inventors by nationality