Month: December 2018

Patents

Six Ton Tower Trike Patent

Jim Gesto of South Bend, Indiana, has invented and patented an 11,000 pound trike! Entertainer Jay Leno likes the Tower Trike so much that he featured it on his popular CNBC show Jay Leno’s Garage. Watch this one-minute video clip from Leno’s Garage and you will join Jay Leno as a fan of the Tower Trike. Why […]

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By : Dec 10, 2018 No Comment
History, Intellectual Property (IP), invention, Patents, Technology

Invention, Reinvention, and Patents

Among other events that occurred on this date in history, U.S. Patent 942,699, directed to the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite, was granted to inventor Leo Baekeland. According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Baekeland was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1978. When the Bakelite patent issued in 1909, the world seemed to […]

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By : Dec 7, 2018 No Comment