African American inventor Garret Augustus Morgan invented an improved traffic light in 1923 (US1475024). He was born in Kentucky on March 4, 1877. He only received an elementary school education. He was a sewing machine mechanic. In his patent application for an improved traffic signal, he highlighted three important benefits of his invention. 1.”This invention relates…
A patent is an intellectual property right granted by the United States government to an inventor “to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States or importing the invention into the United States” for a limited time in exchange for public disclosure of the invention when the…
Those fancy 8-prong and 30-pronged chargers that you see at local stores might be in violation of patent and trademarks owned by Apple Inc. A handful of distributors received a letter from apple. The letter begins with the following message: “It has recently come to Apple’s attention that [your company] is offering for sale and…
Most tablet computing devices allow users to execute various functions by touching the surface of the touchscreen with a single finger and then dragging that finger across the touchscreen surface. Users can also instruct the computing device to zoom in or out by touching the screen and then widening or lessening the space between the…
