Service Name: Our Final Jeopardy Topic is:
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Much as it is in life, you guess your way through when you aren't absolutely sure--
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-- Most everyone has viewed "Jeopardy" on television. -- You know some of the correct answers and you wait to see whether you possibly may be able to answer the "Final Jeopardy Question?" (along with those 'brains.') -- You find that 'it' is in the topic: "Invention." -- For this degree of difficulty, they might as well have given you the topic: "Earth." It is near impossible. ;-) -- Mr. Ed -- Unless, of course, you have been 'studying-up.'
=============================================== - Pick the correct answer:
-- #1. The USPTO is in:
-- A. Arlington, VA
-- B. Alexandria, VA - #2. The four areas of Intellectual Property are:
-- A. Trade Names
-- B. Patents
-- C. Trademarks
-- D. Trade Marks
-- E. Service Marks
-- F. Copy Rights
-- G. Copyrights
-- H. Copywrites
-- I. Non-Provisionals
-- J. Provisional Patents
-- K. Provisional Patent Applications
-- L. Secrets
-- M. Top Secrets
-- N. Trade Secrets
-- O. Government Cover-ups - #3. You have been offered either A. or B. as Royalties for your invention of a product that will sell for $19.95 each, cost $3.90 per unit and have expected sales of 1,000,000 units within two years. --
-- Which contract from our offering company would you accept? --
-- Everything for the inventor is guaranteed and written in concrete:
- A. $10,000 paid up-front, 6.25% per unit on each unit manufactured and delivered; money to be remitted quarterly to inventor, with no buy-backs, for the first two years. Re-negotiated in final quarter of contract.
- B. Lloyds of London will insure that you will get a dollar the first month, two dollars the second month, four dollars the third month, etc. - continued exponentially for no more than eighteen months. Paid to the inventor monthly. To be re-negotiated after fifteen months.
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..unless you can't wait or expect to live for two more years nailing down your dream, you should always [always] read the fine print and do the math.
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-- ANSWERS: - #1. Both are correct for now. The Patent Office has been moving from Arlington, VA to Alexandria, VA and hasn't fully pulled away. So, being a trick question, [who gives a damn], you get by with either answer. Much as it is in life, you guess your way through when you aren't absolutely sure--and this was a 50-50 chance of being correct. - #2. Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets. There are two more, but like in the game of chess, you learn those when the need arises and you are asked for six instead of four. Like in most tests, the questions go beyond the reasonable expectation of having the use of trivia. But then, the one who knows more than you, whips your ass by 'showing you up.' ;-) - #3. The answer is B. Take your time and do the math. - Sure, that answer A. gives you up-front satisfaction, and "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," but don't forget that two-hundred sixty-two thousand and fifteen dollars ($262,015.00) is guaranteed, unless you can't wait or expect to live eighteen more months nailing down your dream? You should always [always] read the fine print and do the math. -- -- -- Think Outside the Box -- --
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-- No, it's all made up with just enough truth to make you believe that it's all true.
http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/hr2391=========================================================== An alumnus returned to his old school and ran into his previous Civics Professor. They schmoozed about the old days, when the former student spied a recent Civics Test."This looks like the same test I took some ten years ago? Aren't you afraid that the students will compare notes and have all the correct answers?" "No, - the questions are the same. - Times have changed and all the right answers are now all the wrong answers." -- "FOXNews.com - Dvorak: This Dot-Com Bubble Will Burst, Too - Technology News | News On Technology" -- -- Do the right thing. Hire the right staff to advise you.
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"If General Motors had kept up with the technol-ogy like the comp-uter indus-try has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
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: Technology Joke At a recent computer exposition, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated "If General Motors had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon." In response to Bill's comments, GM issued a press release stating: "If General Motors had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day. 2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car. 3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. -- For some reason, you would simply accept this. 4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine. 5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive -- but would run on only five percent of the roads. 6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "General Protection Fault" warning light. 7. The airbag system would ask "are you sure?" before deploying. 8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you
simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna. 9. Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car. 10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.
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The only dif'-rence bet-ween men and boys is the muscle bet-ween their ears
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-- Eligibility Quiz - How Again Did This Go? -
-- It's your choice as to the final word: -- "The only difference between men and boys, is the size of their _____."
- a. penises
- b. toys
- c. risks
- d. portfolio
- e. debts--
Building a Class Action Lawsuit ---- The law firm http://www.meyersonlawfirm.com/ on behalf of numerous inventors, agreed to lay the groundwork toward filing a Class Action Lawsuit against Davison & Associates on behalf of numerous inventors - at no charge. -- If you know someone who feels they did not get value for monies paid and services rendered, please have them contact: Jack Meyerson, Meyerson Law Firm 1700 Market Street, Suite 3025 Philadelphia, PA 215-972-1376 info@meyers onlawfirm.com -- -- "USPTO Annual Reports" -- -- -- "Table 2: Patent Applications Filed" --
-- "Table 4: Patent Pendency Statistics" --
-- "Table 6: Patents Issued" --
-- "Table 7: Patent Applications Filed by Residents of the United States" --
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Addit-ional Notes:
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-- Need a quick response? --> Post-it -->
-- Colleagues will provide information even faster when asked on a handwritten Post-it® note, reports the Journal of Consumer Psychology. The Post-it® is perceived as a request for a personal favor.-- "How to Market a Food Product?" -- "Urban Legends Reference Page: Lost Legends" --
E-mail message
Date: Wed, Dec 21, 2005, 5:36pm
To: one_top_mason@yahoo.com (one_top_mason), inventors_council@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Inventors Council] Looking for investors
"Does anyone here know how to find investors looking to invest in new ideas and inventions? I have an invention but I don't have the capitol to get it out there to the industry. Please, I would love it if someone could help me. Thank you all."
Answer: There are plenty of investors out there looking to make money:
1. Does your invention make money? Can you prove it? How much money do you want? Who else is in on it? How much have they invested? What's in it for me? How long do you need my money and how soon do I get it back? How good are you; I mean, can I trust you, what's your track-record? Have you put your own money in it, too? How much do you stand to lose? What amount of securities do you have to cover my investment? etc.
2. Can I control over 50% of your business? Can you protect my investment so that I take no loss on your scheme? Is your invention a long term winner or only a seasonal product -- or is it a fad of only a few months?
3. Who is taking over if you die? Have you back-ups? Have you the material to make it? Who makes it and where is it going to be made? Do you have cost breakdowns? Have you worked out logistics? Who and where is your competition? Who else knows about your invention? How have you protected your invention, e.g., patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights and letters of confidentiality? Is your timing right for this product when it hits the marketplace?
4. I don't want to be liable for your personal actions or for your untried invention/product. I want 'guarantees' from you.' - When some goniff wants 'easy pickings,' he'll sue me because I have deep pockets and you don't have as much to lose as I do.
5. Who am I? I am your competition wanting you to fail. We don't need you to cut into our profits. Our R&D department has already covered all known facets of business possibilities and so, your untried invention, if Not Invented Here, is not what we would invest in. -- However, we want to know what you have, and we may just take a look at it? There is a one in one-hundred chance that your invention is promising?
6. To your overall question: You must be kidding?? There are dozens of ways an investor can make money without investing on an untried invention.
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RETIRE
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-- -- Ahhh, Retirement --
Question: How many days in a week?
Answer: 6 Saturdays, 1 Sunday
Question: When is a retiree's bedtime?
Answer: Three hours after he falls asleep on the couch.
Question: How many retirees to change a light bulb?
Answer: Only one, but it might take all day.
Question: What's the biggest gripe of retirees?
Answer: There is not enough time to get everything done..
Question: Why don't retirees mind being called Seniors?
Answer: The term comes with a 10% percent discount.
Question: Among retirees what is considered formal attire?
Answer: Tied shoes.
Question: Why do retirees count pennies?
Answer: They are the only ones who have the time.
Question: What is the common term for someone who enjoys work and refuses to retire?
Answer: NUTS!
Question: Why are retirees so slow to clean out the basement, attic or garage?
Answer: They know that as soon as they do, one of their adult kids will want to store stuff there.
Question: What do retirees call a long lunch?
Answer: Normal.
Question: What is the best way to describe retirement?
Answers: The never ending Coffee Break.
Question: What's the biggest advantage of going back to school as a retiree?
Answer: If you cut classes, no one calls your parents
Question: Why does a retiree often say he doesn't miss work, but misses the people he used to work with?
Answer: He is too polite to tell the whole truth.
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