companies as Whirlpool and Maytag. It has faced many challenges through trial and error and the inventions such as the small motor, galvanized tubs, and the agitator. In the following paper is how the washing machine came to be, the challenges it faced, and how it was developed by several key people. Innovation according to Dictionary.com is defined as "something new or different introduced." One invention that we overlook in such a high-tech world that was created to make our lives simpler is the
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slave both manual and intellectual". Initially, he U.S. patent office changed the patent laws in favor of Oscar Stuart, but in 1870, the U.S. government passed a patent law giving all American men, including African Americans, the rights to their inventions. Most slaves in the Southern states of the USA were denied education. The slave owners were afraid of slave rebellions occurring if slaves had access to texts based on enlightenment thinking, like Thomas Paine's "the Rights of Man". Even if African
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Explain what happened to the Gore-Tex brand after the patent expired in 1996. Once the main patent on the Gore-Tex fabric expired, the company lost all rights to its invention, and it opened the door for other companies to offer comparative products at a lower price. Many companies make waterproof membranes now, and some have advanced past Gore-Tex in terms of durability and function. Gore no longer has the ability to protect the make-up of The Gore-Tex brand so competitors have flooded their once
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as it is the last and final results. The answer is no. I don’t ever notice such circumstances in my whole life. On other side I have experienced many inventions by great researchers. They do their best to invent. Although they were thinking that they have invented the best thing, but after sometimes they bring some innovation in their own inventions. One example in my mind is of Apple, a multinational corporation. The corporation researcher does their best and introduces the I-Pod, a line of portable
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Post it Notes – Case Study Questions Question 1 In the development of this product, how did the creative thinking process work? Describe what took place in each of the four steps. . The Post-It Notes case has clearly illustrated the 4 phases in creativity development and each step has demonstrated by the inventor of Post-It Notes as described below: * Background or knowledge accumulation This phase was demonstrated by Art Fry who is the inventor of Post-It Notes whereby he recalled about
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Pip Davenport Introduction Pip Davenport was born in 1850 in slewsbury. He came from a poor family. He wrote many books his most famous book was called the “The Fairground Mystery”. He came from a poor family he also created many inventions such as the Dodgems and the faresweel. Early Life Pip’s Father died when he was only 7 of cholera and his Mother when he was 10 of tuberculosis so he was raised by his uncle Henry. Pips first school was Brenton primary school. Pip started to write at the
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we should notice the corn peeling machine innovation form and the after-sales service. In China, there are three kinds of patents: patent for invention, patent for utility models and appearance patent. And patent for invention is difficult to obtain, because it should have the feature of innovation and has high gold content. But patent for invention stands for the innovation strength for corn peeling machine manufacturer. If a corn peeling machine manufacturer can produce CORN PEELING MACHINE
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science. There have been innumerable inventions. One of the greatest inventions is the invention of medicines. There has been a series of tests carried out using animals as subjects and various medicines have been tried out on these animals to check their efficacy. Many fatal diseases can now be cured because we have the drug to fight those diseases. It has reduced the rate of infant mortality and increased the life span. Before these inventions millions of people died for lack of
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Dupont has brought world-class science and engineering to the global marketplace. They are a science based company spread out throughout the globe that are working to find innovative solutions for the need to deal with our ever growing population crisis. They have an influence in several industries including automotive, electronics, agriculture, mining, food, and beverage just to name a few. It is a company whose goal is to ''work collaboratively to find sustainable, innovative, market-driven solutions
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(except for pharmaceuticals inventions). * Patent Act provides that a patentable invention is an invention that, so far as claimed in any claim: 1. IS IT A MANNER OF MANUFACTURE? * A 'manner of manufacture' includes any new product or any new process that achieves an economically useful result. To be a manner of manufacture an invention must have a commercial or industrial application as opposed to a purely artistic one. * Product Improvements - If the invention is purely a new use for
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