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Financial Future Challange

The   New York Stock Exchange Foundation and   K12 are looking for your new ideas!

The NYSE Financial Future Challenge is asking you to create a new product/idea or process that will excite and educate your friends and classmates about investing and the financial marketplace. Your ideas might be activities, games, books, websites, videos, etc. which illuminate the fundamentals of the stock market and financial literacy and make it easy to learn and even participate in the markets.

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Yankee Invention Expo 2009

Applications are now being accepted to exhibit in the 15th annual Yankee Invention Exposition. The Expo dates are Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 22-24, 2009 in Waterbury, Connecticut.

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e-office Action

The Commerce Department’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced the implementation of the e-Office Action program following a successful pilot project. Under the program, patent applicants receive an e-mail notification of office communications instead of paper mailings.

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Product Idea Walmart

Do you have a great idea for the next big green/sustainable Walmart product? Edison Nation is seeking new product ideas or patents to acquire and bring to Walmarts’s shelves.

Challenge: Walmart Stores Inc. is looking for sustainable/green home products that minimize impact or create a positive effect on the environment.
Deadline: Monday, August 3rd 2009 11:59PM – Pacific Time (US & Canada)
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The inventRight directory of companies looking for inventions is now online. There are over 250 companies and adding more every day. If you have a company that is looking for inventions you can submit contact information to get listed ot the directory.
There is also a new Service Provider section in the directory. So, if you need anything from a graphic designer to an attorney make sure to look there.

Click Here to go to the directory

Tsera Sues Companies

More than twenty companies including Microsoft and Apple are being sued this week by the company Tsera due to alleged patent infringements incurred by using touchpad interfaces.

The Texas based Tsera was issued with the patent in question back in 2003 after applying for it in 1999. It covers, “Methods and apparatus for controlling a portable electronic device using a touchpad”.

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Kingston_256GB-flash-drive

Kingston the makers of portable storage devices has unveiled the world’s first 256GB flash drive taking flash memory limits to new heights.
Last month they released a 128GB flash drive name “Data Traveler 200″.
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Road Show 2009

Big Idea Group is taking to the road again to meet with inventors. If
you have inventions you’d like feedback on, join for one of the
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idea hunt

Idea Hunt for innovative product lines that match the manufacturing and distribution capabilities of Arthur Blank & Co. (ABCO) and push the company into new areas of business or extend their existing product lines with compelling innovations.

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M-ARC Disk

Springville start-up Millenniata (millennium + data) introduced a new technology for writing DVDs that can be read for 1,000 years after being stored at room temperature when average life of ordianry CDs/DVDs are only from 3 to 4 years. Dubbed the Millennial Disk (M-ARC Disks), it looks similar to ordinary DVDs. (more…)