Insurance IP Bulletin
An
Information Bulletin on Intellectual Property
activities in the insurance
industry
A Publication of - Tom Bakos Consulting, Inc. and Markets, Patents and Alliances, LLC |
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Patent Watch:
Don't Count on Copying Your Competitor's Great New product Ideas
The use of patents to protect intellectual
property in the insurance industry is growing.
Patent Tech:
Sources of Information
Where to find information on patents and patent
applications.
Patents in Action:
Story of a Reversionary Annuity
The story of patent #5,754,980.
Finding Innovation:
How Do You Know You've Invented Something?
Invention is a solution to a problem.
Second Issue: August 15, 2004 -
VOL:2004.2
Feature
Article:
Ignorance Will Be No Excuse
by Phil Hargrove, VP, Intellectual Asset Management, GE Employers Reinsurance Co., Kansas City, MO
Patent Watch:
AIG Joins the Patent Club
AIG gets their first internally generated patent
issued.
Patent Tech:
Broad Thinking - Yes, But Will it Fly?
The Wright Bros. example.
Finding Innovation:
Can You Patent an Insurance Product?
Right now, you
can't. Find out why.
Third Issue: October 15, 2004 -
VOL:2004.3
Feature
Article:
The Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Insurance Product
Innovation
by Francois Gadenne, President and CEO, Retirement
Engineering, Inc., Boston, MA and
Ben Williams, VP and Chief Technical
Officer, Retirement Engineering, Inc. Boston, MA.
Patent Tech:
Why Does
the Patent System Exist?
A comment from Charles Call, a
patent agent from Yarmouth, MA.
Patent Watch:
Progressive Builds a Fortress of
Patent Protection
Progressive Casualty Insurance Company's use of patents to
protect its intellectual property.
Patents in
Action:
Why Isn't the World Beating a Path to My
Door?
Guidelines
on how individual inventors can market their inventive new insurance
ideas.
Fourth Issue: December 15, 2004
- VOL:2004.4
Feature
Article:
Barbarians at the
Gate
by Tom Bakos, FSA, MAAA - President,
Tom Bakos Consulting, Inc.
and
Mark Nowatarski,
Patent Agent, - President, MPA LLC
Patent Tech:
USPTO Examination Process for
Business Method Patent Applications
A briefing on how the
patent office handles patent applications.
Patent Watch:
Stable Value
Protected Life Insurance - Update of Bancorp
Patent
How Bancorp has kept its patent application involving stable value funds
alive.