This is an interesting invention – the disappearing car door. While the cost is not disclosed on the site, I doubt it’s a modification that can be made economically at this point in time. However, if you’re looking for that eye catching trait for a modified import and price isn’t a concern, this would certainly do the trick. You can read more about the invention at http://www.disappearing-car-dood.com/ or watch the video below.

Eric Corl is the Founder and CEO of Idea Buyer, a marketplace for new technology and products that allows inventors to showcase their intellectual property to consumer product companies, entrepreneurs, retailers, and manufacturers at www.IdeaBuyer.com. You can email him at EricCorl@IdeaBuyer.com.

A ruling was just confirmed that orders Microsoft to pay well over $140 million dollars for the violation of a patent owned by Z4 Technologies. The patent, which may seem a little general, essentially covers asking a user for two passwords on Microsoft’s software.

Microsoft had used the technology to curtail piracy, however, I’m doubtful that this patent has offered them any true economic benefits. You can read more about the ruling at Mashable.com where Mark Hopkins wrote an interesting piece here.

The lawsuit was filed and won in Texas which is considered a patent troll friendly court.

Mark Hopkins goes on to discuss that it is even questionable as to whether or not the patent should have been issued. The one thing that is clear is that if the patent system is to be improved, it has to happen at the point of approving a patent. If the patent system was reformed then we would not have overly broad patents which individuals would have incentive to exploit.

However, it is important to note the substantial benefit that patents offer the U.S. economy in terms of economic incentive. If we had no intellectual property protection there would be less incentive to take risks both in terms of time and financially to innovate and better the economy.

Wikipedia has an excellent article(here) on what a patent troll is and how they effect the patent system. Below is an excerpt;

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Patent troll is a pejorative term used for a person or company that enforces its patents against one or more alleged infringers in a manner considered unduly aggressive or opportunistic.

Over the past seven to ten years, Microsoft has been on both sides of numerous patent law suits with settlements totaling billions of dollars including creative patent pacts with software companies.

What’s interesting regarding this particular patent is that it was a functionality of a large piece of software whose added use added little value nor did it cost consumers extra capital to have integrated (aside from possible development costs carried over which is negligible). So, essentially what Microsoft paid for was that they were using an infringed patent to further protect their software from being pirated. Isn’t that ironic?

Eric Corl is the Founder and CEO of Idea Buyer, a marketplace for new technology and products that allows inventors to showcase their intellectual property to consumer product companies, entrepreneurs, retailers, and manufacturers at www.IdeaBuyer.com. You can email him at EricCorl@IdeaBuyer.com.

This month’s featured companies are 3M, GE, and Johnson and Johnson. These companies continually display a commitment to innovation and new product development commercialization. To understand how these companies continually come up with revolutionary product ideas and commercialize technology it’s useful to look at the history of these companies and their respective cultures.

3M was founded in 1902 as a mining and manufacturing company by Mr. Ryan Bauer in New York. The company started off selling minerals and quickly went into selling sandpaper. Their first major innovation, waterproof sandpaper, came out of this line of business in 1920. Later in 1925 the company released masking tape and cellophane tape known to most as scotch tape. The company then launched a multitude of products throughout the following decades and has become a Fortune 500 company renowned for its innovative culture. They now sell over fifty thousand products in a variety of different industries and had revenue of nearly $23 billion last year.

General Electric is also a conglomerate known for its innovative climate. The company was most notably founded by the inventor of the incandescent electric bulb, Thomas Edison, in 1876. Over the years the company has followed Mr. Edison’s competitive and innovative streak building the company into a Fortune 100 company with sales of over $160 billion last year. The company now owns companies in a multitude of industries and is known for both its employee training programs and its employee satisfaction for which it has received numerous awards. GE now employs over 300,000 people.

Johnson and Johnson was founded by Robert Woodson in 1886. The company initially focused on improving the sanitation practices in hospitals and later diversified into consumer products and pharmaceuticals and recently into industries such as orthopedic devices and biopharmaceuticals. It has received numerous accolades for its involvement in product innovation in each of those areas and is continually releasing new useful products for consumers. The company generated over $50 billion in revenue last year with a net profit margin of nearly 20%. The company employs over 120,000 people in a multitude of states but is based in Brunswick, New Jersey.

These companies have shown a commitment to innovation and new product development. By signing up with us, you will have access to the submission links for submitting patented technology for sale to these companies as a sign of our appreciation to you as a customer and our respect for these great companies.

by Damian Sofsian

The US Patent office has granted more than six million patents since 1790. During the late 18th century the number of inventors in America started outpacing many other countries. In the second half of the 19th century, inventors like Thomas Alva Edison led by example. The result was that very soon American inventors became a potent force in fuelling rapid industrial growth.

From phonograms to computers, American inventors have provided the world with several technological breakthroughs that have changed the way people live.

The list of American inventors is a long one and it continues to grow. So it is difficult to name the best inventors, as every inventor has in one way or the other left an impact on society. The Wright brothers (Orville and Wilbur) invented the airplane, which is considered the most important invention of 20th century. Both brothers were from Ohio.

Another Ohio-based inventor was Charles Martin Hall, who invented the process of manufacturing aluminum with the electrolytic method. If we look around there will be hardly any production process in which aluminum is not used. Henry Ford is another famous American inventor. His work revolutionized the whole automobile industry. Today automobiles are an inherent part of our everyday life and no society can survive without them.

Jonas Salk is another famous American inventor. He is known for inventing the polio vaccine, and his groundbreaking findings on influenza and other infectious diseases. No talk about famous American inventors can considered to be complete without Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone in 1876 at the age of 29, and Thomas Alva Edison, whose list of inventions exceed more than 1,000. Much has written about them, but there are many American inventors who invented significant things ranging from sewing machines to computers and modern telecommunication technology. They remain unsung though they did a great service to the mankind.

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