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  • "Throughout history, forecasters have subjected themselves to ridicule for prematurely assuming a skyscraper's height would never be topped, a promising invention's ingenuity would never be outdone or for contending an athletic feat would never be surpassed," said Reid, the Democrat from Nevada.

    In the Senate, a unanimous sentiment: Praise for Robert Byrd 2009

  • If necessity is the mother of invention, a bad economy is invention's annoying, but motivating brother-in-law.

    Lloyd Garver: An Inventive Nation 2009

  • Never mind that the invention's practicality was questionable.

    Inventing for Maximum Media Impact 2009

  • If there was surveys for the time periods of the invention's listed above I'm sure they would have similar result's.

    How important is Internet access to you? | Sync Blog 2008

  • It is an allegory, or what de Man calls his "invention," the invention of a "generation," and at the same time it indicates invention's impossibility:

    'At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...' 2005

  • Of course, obviousness is not established "merely by demonstrating that each of an invention's elements was . . . known in the prior art," because "it can be important to identify a reason that would have prompted a person of ordinary skill in the relevant field to combine the elements in the way the claimed new invention does."

    SDNY Takes on KSR - And Finds Patent Obvious Peter Zura 2007

  • Of course, obviousness is not established "merely by demonstrating that each of an invention's elements was . . . known in the prior art," because "it can be important to identify a reason that would have prompted a person of ordinary skill in the relevant field to combine the elements in the way the claimed new invention does."

    Archive 2007-06-01 Peter Zura 2007

  • It's also crucial to objectively assess your invention's marketability early in the process.

    Turning Your Gadget Into Gold Saabira Chaudhuri 2006

  • As a matter of fact, abstraction is not a bad start to get a hold on invention's and fiction's detours.

    18th Century French Aesthetics Morizot, Jacques 2006

  • Patents that were granted lasted 12 years which was considered to be a third of an invention's useful life.

    The 271 Patent Blog Peter Zura 2004

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