Each month we feature Q&A with a leading industry innovator. This month: Doug Hall, founder and CEO of Eureka! Ranch, an “invention & research think tank” that specializes in new product creation for corporations including Nike, Disney and American Express. Doug is also the author of the book series Jump Start, a former judge for the ABC-TV show American Inventor, and past holder of the very cool job title “Master Marketing Inventor” at Procter & Gamble—the company that makes everything from Tide® detergent to Pringles® potato chips. Here’s perspective from Doug: Q: What do you see as being the real value of innovation? Doug: It’s quite simple. Innovation helps you be meaningfully unique, which helps you improve your profit margin. And in business, it’s all about profit. If you’re not meaningfully unique, you better be cheap.
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Industry leader Doug Hall
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Meet the new USPTO director
President Obama has nominated engineer-turned-attorney David Kappos to be the next Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property… a position that also has the title of being Director of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Pending confirmation by the U.S. Senate, he’ll take the helm at a time when the USPTO needs to reinvent itself in many ways to handle new technologies and an ever-growing population of inventive people filing patents on an ever-growing number of new ideas.
What does this mean to you and your invention? Here are three noteworthy implications:
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FYI: Upcoming tradeshows for new inventions Tradeshows are great for showcasing inventions and/or making contacts with an industry’s key players. The key is to plan ahead, to get the most out of each show you attend. So looking beyond July, click below to see a list of key U.S. tradeshows happening over in the August to October window. |
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Invention quote of the month “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
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