Robert J.
March 15, 2009, 01:27 PM
Here's a link to a newspaper report that should be of interest to business-minded folks like the ones who hang around here.
This guy in suburban New Jersey had been marketing a nearly identical product on his own web site for a few years. The blankets were sewn by his wife ...
I don't know that anybody is accusing the big company of stealing the idea ... but there's probably a good lesson here re. protecting your "invention" or your intellectual property.
Here's the link:
http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/burlington_county_times/bct_news_details/article/26/2009/march/09/snug-in-his-success.html
Now, my question ... what could this guy have done, if anything, to protect himself? Would this have been a trademarkable/patentable idea? Or no?
Robert J.
This guy in suburban New Jersey had been marketing a nearly identical product on his own web site for a few years. The blankets were sewn by his wife ...
I don't know that anybody is accusing the big company of stealing the idea ... but there's probably a good lesson here re. protecting your "invention" or your intellectual property.
Here's the link:
http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/burlington_county_times/bct_news_details/article/26/2009/march/09/snug-in-his-success.html
Now, my question ... what could this guy have done, if anything, to protect himself? Would this have been a trademarkable/patentable idea? Or no?
Robert J.
