NEW! Patent Olympiad Training Camp: Tips and Tricks For the Competitive Patent Searcher
Want some tips and tricks for competitive patent searching? We have a few tips for you in Patent Olympiad Training Camp, a series of short informational pieces from the organizers and sponsors.
POPQuiz #3 Results: Decrypted. Or…Knowledge is Power.
And now the reveal. Our riddle, decrypted. The answers to our POPQuiz 3 enigma.
POPQuiz #3 Addendum: Clues!
Was our poem too enigmatic?
Just in case you’d like some clues, today we begin a gallery of clues for POPQuiz #3.
POPQuiz #3: Riddles and Poetry, Intrigue and Innovation. And Patents. This One Has it All.
On a shore that gave birth to a field
The love of a William revealed
A crack team of two
A cloak red + blue
And ideas: more breaking than making.
POPQuiz #2: Powers of V – Vlad the Impaler, The Vampire Index, and Vivid Imaginations
Even patents aren’t immune to the power of Dracula’s bite.
For this week’s POPQuiz, we are looking for Dracula-inspired patents that maximize a highly arbitrary score we’ll call the VI, also known as the Vlad Index. Or Vampire Index.
POPQuiz #1: Two Romanian Inventors, An Illegal Invention, And The French Connection
At least two Romanian inventors, one past, one present, have both developed a type of device that would be illegal in one small town in France. Video records of one such device exist.
Can you answer this week’s POPQuiz?
UPDATE: We will release our answers on August 9, 2019 at 23:59:59 AoE Time (UTC -12 h).
Introducing POPQuiz! A Research Challenge Series for Patent Information Fans
Patent Olympiad 2019 is less than 3 months away. Will you be ready?
Join us weekly until mid-September for a weekly POPQuiz – your Patent Olympiad Preliminaries!
Our 90-Day Countdown Begins: Will You Join Us at Patent Olympiad?
Today is July 29, 2019. We are 90 days out…and counting down. Will you join us?
Here’s what you need to know now…
This Year’s Arena: EPOPIC 2019 in Bucharest, Romania
You’ve probably heard…and yes, it’s official. Patent Olympiad 2019 is happening!
This year, our host conference will be the European Patent Organization’s EPOPIC 2019 in Bucharest, Romania. Want to join us? Stay tuned for registration details! (Update as of July 14, 2019: Registration is now open!)
Countdown to Patent Olympiad 2018: Are You Ready to Be First?
In less than three weeks, patent researchers from around the world will be gathering at the Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy. .
Will you be among the first?