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Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I Thinking Like an Inventor
CHAPTER 1 The Three Questions That Should Follow a Eureka! Moment
How Can I Broaden My Invention?
Application-Agnostic Inventions
How Can I Protect My Invention from Becoming Obsolete?
Foreseeing the Evolution of Memory
Do I Understand Who Benefits from My Invention?
Patent Searching
Recap
Discussions and Reflections
CHAPTER 2 Improvement Inventions
Building a Better Mousetrap
How Small Things Add Up
Using Analogy to Help You Improve Inventions
Microwave Ovens and Cell Towers
Persistent Improvement in the Ski Industry
Improvement Invention Opportunities in Infrastructure Upgrades
The Railroad Classification Yard
Traffic Lights
Focusing Your Attention Where It Counts
Selectivity and Moore’s Law
Tricks of IP Mining
Recap
Discussions and Reflections
CHAPTER 3 Developing an Inventive Mindset by Gaming the System
Examples of Gaming the System
Gaming the Game
How Criminals Game the System
How to Seek a Eureka! Moment by Gaming the System
Recap
Discussions and Reflections
CHAPTER 4 Increasing Dimensions to Spark Eureka! Moments
Examining New Dimensions
Language Dimensions
Sales Savvy
A Combinatorial Conundrum
Adding a New Dimension to an Old Space
Choosing the Right Dimensions
Combining Dimensions: Considering Climate in Risk-Based Pricing
Changing a Dimension: Visualizing Speech
Recap
Discussions and Reflections
CHAPTER 5 Combination Inventions
Combination Invention and Emerging Technology
The Web and the Camera
Bar Codes and Cooking
Subliminal Channel Concept: Locks and Alarms
A Wartime Countermeasure
Frequency Hopping
A No-Holds-Barred Approach to Combination Invention
The POP Score: A Measure of Invention
The Technology Linkage Diagram
Barriers Dissolve with Time
Recap
Discussions and Reflections
PART II Seeking a Eureka! Moment
CHAPTER 6 Law, Regulation, and Standards
Safety Regulations and Invention
T. J. Hooper Case
GPS
Radio Spectrum Spur to Invention
How Standards Can Stimulate Invention
Patent Pooling
Standards and Cryptography
Recap
Discussions and Reflections
CHAPTER 7 Overcoming and Using Constraints
Energy Limitations in a Mechanical System
Power Limitations in the Railroad Industry
Geographic Constraints
Nonlinearity Constraint
Proving a Negative: Detecting a Null Condition
Recap
Discussions and Reflections
CHAPTER 8 Be Driven by the Bottom Line
Mature Technology Married to New Technology
Invention and Productivity in Agriculture
Caterpillar Patents
Making Snow for the Ski Industry
Making the Most of What You Already Have
Focusing on Bottom-Line Invention
Recap
Discussions and Reflections
PART III Appendixes
Appendix A Patents: Mileposts of Invention
The Patent Art
Getting Started
The Claims
Patentability, Infringement, and Design Arounds
When a Patent Is in Your Way
Types of Patents
Le Mot Juste
Why Bother with Dependent Claims?
Speed Is of the Essence and Will Become More So
Patentability: §101 Revisited
Sometimes It’s a Secret
Claim All of It
Recap
Discussions and Reflections
Appendix B U.S. Patent 6004596 “Sealed Crustless Sandwich”
Appendix C Inventors and Inventorship
Who Are Inventors?
Failing Your Way to Success
Success Has Many Fathers
Recognition and Compensation
The Meaning of “Inventorship”
Inventing as a Passion
Abraham Lincoln
Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard
Kelly Fitzpatrick
Recap
Discussions and Reflections
Index
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