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		<title>Acacia Research a patent troll ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a company that makes no products, Acacia Research  spends a lot of time fighting over patents in court. Acacia has filed at least 337 patent-related lawsuits in its 18 years. Acacia acquires patents from inventors and then seeks fees from companies that it says infringe on those patents. Because Acacia licenses technologies it doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. James S. Hacsi, One of the 25 semi finalist, the inventor of the “DC-AC Soft-Switching Inverter” wrote to us:</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 03:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I thought I would write to tell you a little about the Invent Now Challenge and my experiences in New York City where my DC-AC Soft-Switching Inverter was presented to a final judging panel. The sponsors and administrators for the contest were superb in the way they treated all the semifinalists. I recommend the 2008 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>25 years of &#8216;eureka&#8217; moments: USA Today&#8217;s choice&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 03:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re a nation of inventors in garages and corporate labs, creating new gadgets and services that delight us and occasionally drive us crazy. USA TODAY chose inventions that changed our lives since 1982. 1Cellphones Car phones were around in the 1970s, but it wasn&#8217;t until 1983 that Motorola introduced the first widely available handheld cellphone. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magee L. wrote: what steps do i need to take to patent a product improvement idea?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2007 15:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Question: what steps do I need to take to patent a product improvement idea? Answer: Contact a patent attorney. I suggest the Law Office of Steven B. Leavitt where you can get your idea analyzed for no cost. Go the website YouInventIt.com and submit your idea. It is confidential and there is no obligation.]]></description>
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		<title>Get Your photo on a bottle of Jones Soda…: US Patent # 6,845,365 starts cashing in!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Method and apparatus for creating and ordering customized branded merchandise over a computer network. US Patent # 6,845,365 This is one of those great ideas that leaves you wondering why didn’t I think of that first? Oh well…too late, Jones Soda is already cashing in on this idea!  Simple enough but a brilliant idea for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 25 Inventions of 2007 Revealed by The Modern Marvels Invent Now(R) Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The History Channel(R) and Invent Now(R) Inc., a subsidiary of the National Inventors Hall of Fame(R) Foundation,  named the top 25 inventions of 2007 through the second annual Modern Marvels Invent Now(R) Challenge, a national competition searching for America&#8217;s next great invention idea. One of the 25 semi finalist is the inventor of the “DC-AC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Search the USPTO&#8217;s Patents Google Style</title>
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		<comments>http://www.shop4patents.com/articles/google-introduces-patent-search#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has introduced Google Patent Search, a service that makes it easy to search the USPTO&#8217;s 7 million patents. Its based on the same technology they use in their book searches. if you are looking for documentation on a specific patent you can search for them here. Google Patent Search makes it easy to find [...]]]></description>
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