Monday, November 07, 2005

The race to the patent office!

Randy Reali is a rare student, as far as I'm concerned. And he agrees: when I asked if I could use him in my Web log, he said "as long as you paint a picture of me with your words that shows the true genius and stunning amazingness that is me." :-) :-) :-) Reali and his computerAnyway, Randy is pictured from an article that appeared in the TCNJ student newspaper, the Signal, using ProEngineer to arrange his dorm room -- dorm rooms at TCNJ, without computer layout assistance, leave you without enough room to change your mind.

For my class, he's developed an alarm clock that delivers a "mild electrical stimulus." I dunno -- I thought it was novel and innovative. So I asked him to talk to IMET about a second-generation prototype, and to rush to the Patent Office with his claims. He says "as soon as I can get to it." That's the trouble with entrepreneurs: so many claims on their attention. I can only remind him what history says about inventors: if you have a good idea, somebody else is having it too. Like Elisha Gray, who almost beat Alexander Graham Bell to the Patent Office with the telephone. And probably should have.

book soxRandy has a classmate who claims to have invented "Book Sox" (pictured) -- but he didn't get the intellectual property rights in place. "All I can say is that it's a true shame that I wasn't able to make in to the Patent Office in sixth grade. If that were the case, I may not even be attending [Dr. Graham's] class today!" So I hope Randy learns the lessons of the guys who finish second.

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