How to Apply for a Patent?

September 22, 2011
Inventions, Inventors, Patents

To protect your rights as the owner of an invention, you need to file a patent application for the invention in each country, where protection is sought.

Always remember to KEEP THE INVENTION SECRET and do not market or sell the invention until a patent application has been filed at the South African Patent Office.

Obtaining a patent is a two-step process spaced 12 months apart.
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How to protect my Invention?

September 19, 2011
Inventions, Patents

To protect your rights as the owner of an invention, you need to file a patent application for the invention in each country, where protection is sought.

If your invention is new, inventive and useful, then it might qualify for patent protection.

Patent Applications

Remember to keep your invention a secret until the patent application has been filed. Do not market, or sell it until a patent application has been filed.

Obtaining a patent is a two-step process spaced 12 months apart.
Once the provisional patent has been submitted, additional steps has to be taken within 12 months to complete the application.

Feel free to contact us should you have questions or require assistance with any patent related matter.

Contact Details for Smit & Van Wyk:

Tel:
+27 (0) 12 349 7800

Fax:
+27 (0) 86 619 0493

E-mail:
enquiries@svw.co.za

Physical Address / Courier:
Block A Apex Corporate Park
Quintin Brand Street
Persequor Technopark
Meiring Naudé Avenue
Pretoria
0184
South Africa

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Inventor & Artist Leonardo da Vinci

August 5, 2011
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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, artist, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, botanist and writer.

Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 to a wealthy notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman Caterina, in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci in Florence.

He is considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time. The Mona Lisa is the most famous and most parodied portrait from Leonardo da Vinci. The Last Supper is the most reproduced religious painting of all time. Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also regarded as a cultural icon.

He was a vegetarian and often purchased caged birds just to release them.

Leonardo da Vinci was also an inventor and conceptualized a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator and outlined a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics.

Few of his designs were constructed during his lifetime but some of his smaller inventions, such as an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire, were created.

Leonardo da Vinci‘s journals include a vast number of inventions, both practical and impractical. They include musical instruments, reversible crank mechanisms, finned mortar shells, hydraulic pumps, and a steam cannon.

In 1502, Leonardo da Vinci produced a drawing of a single span 220m bridge as part of a civil engineering project, but Beyazid believed that such a construction was impossible. In 2001 a smaller bridge based on his design was constructed in Norway and in 2006 the Turkish government decided to construct Leonardo‘s bridge to span the Golden Horn.

He also produced many studies of the flight of birds as well as plans for several flying machines, including a light hang glider and a helicopter.

In 2003 a British television station built and tested Leonardo da Vinci‘s machine designs according to his original sketches with some of them actually being successful.

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Top 5 Accidental Inventions

August 4, 2011
Inventions

5. Plastic – Shellac was made from expensive Asian beetles and used as insulation in electronics. Leo Hendrik Baekeland thought he could produce a shellac alternative and his failed experiments yielded a mold-able material, now called plastic.

4. Radioactivity – Physicist Henri Becquerel ran a series of experiments to see if naturally fluorescent minerals produced X-rays. One day he realized that the uranium rock he had left in the drawer had imprinted itself on a photographic plate without being exposed to sunlight first.

3. Mauve - William Perkin, an 18-year-old chemist, wanted to cure malaria but his experiments produced a thick murky mess which turned out to be the first-ever synthetic dye. German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich then used William Perkin’s dyes to pioneer immunology and chemotherapy.

2. Pacemaker – American engineer Wilson Greatbatch wanted to create a circuit to help record fast heart sounds. He reached into a box and pulled out a 1-megaohm resistor instead of a 10,000-ohm one.

1. Penicillin – In 1928 Alexander Fleming didn’t clean up his workstation before going on holiday and when he came back he noticed a strange fungus on some of his cultures but not on certain other cultures. Penicillin became the first and is still one of the most widely used antibiotics.

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The Kreepy Krauly Invention

July 25, 2011
Inventions

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The Kreepy Krauly was invented by South African hydraulics engineer Ferdinand Chauvier.

The Kreepy Krauly uses water pressure to suck leaves and dirt particles from the swimming pool water.

Ferdinand Chauvier created a swimming pool vacuum cleaner that would do the job automatically.

In 1974 his first automatic pool cleaner was made from wood with rubber tubing.

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