Patent Law Smackdown: Novelty vs. Obviousness

Innovation Cafe with Gary Shuster, patent litigator and prolific inventor. Transcript Let’s talk about the difference between novelty and obviousness in patent law. Something has to not be obvious, which means if you combine a couple of things people have already done, it would not be obvious from there to make your invention. But novelty […]

Intellectual Property Is Simple — But Lawyers Make It Complicated

Innovation Cafe with Gary Shuster, patent litigator and prolific inventor. Transcript Hey there I’m Gary Shuster. Welcome to Innovation Cafe. Today I’m just going to hit a very high level description of some of the things I’ve been talking about. One of the things I learned early on in my life is it is better […]

You Don’t Need a PhD to Be an Innovator

Part of the Innovation Cafe series by Gary Shuster, patent litigator and prolific inventor. Transcript Hey there, it’s Gary Schuster with Innovation Cafe with your 62nd pep talk. When I started my journey on inventing, I was a lawyer. I spent my time in law school. I was a sociology undergraduate. Yes, I had a […]

Learn How I Innovate in 60 Seconds

Part of the Innovation Cafe series by Gary Shuster, patent litigator and prolific inventor. Transcript Two steps to becoming an amazing inventor. Innovate. Then iterate. Then innovate. Then iterate. You go back and forth. You come up with something, you improve it. You come up with something new based on an improvement. You improve that. […]

Patents Only Last 20 Years — and Sometimes We Invent With Too Much Foresight

Part of the Innovation Cafe series by Gary Shuster, patent litigator and prolific inventor. Transcript Hey there I’m Gary Shuster. Welcome to Innovation Cafe. And today I want to talk with you about a Dell laptop that was stolen from my front porch in 1999 or so. Well, not so much about the laptop, but […]