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Inventors and Inventing

  • American Inventor on ABC
    http://abc.go.com/primetime/americaninventor/

    ABC television competition featuring inventors
  • Big Idea with Donny Deutsch
    http://www.cnbc.com/id/15838512/
    A CNBC television show highlighting inventors who brought their ideas to market and made money. Includes a blog http://www.cnbc.com/id/16927535/site/14081545/

  • Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO)
    http://www.ipo.org
    Trade association for owners of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.
  • Invent Now, The National Inventors Hall of Fame
    http://www.invent.org/
    "Where you will discover the inventor in you."

  • USPTO Inventors' Resources
    http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/iip/index.htm

    Designed specifically for independent inventors.
    Contains information on Patents, Trademarks, Complaints, Brochures, Gneral Information and Contact Telephone numbers.

  • Wacky Patent of the Month
    http://colitz.com/site/wacky_new.html
    Selected inventors and their remarkable and unconventional patented inventions.

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