Patent Attorney and Founder
Hi I’m JD Houvener and welcome to the bold today’s show we’re Hugh the inventor and entrepreneur gets your daily dose of inspiration to help you make the world a better place today is Susan B Anthony’s birthday and when that name might be familiar to you and you might think of you know a dollar coin from back in the history susan b anthony had a major impact and today’s day i want you to think about history and so today’s challenge is for you to think about your industry what area of technology are you innovating in and think about who the forefathers were for that technology and thank them right thank them for the platform that you stand on and innovate on today so go do that now for susan b anthony her biggest claim to fame was anti-slavery movement and women’s rights one of the biggest things about women’s rights of course is in 1920 they got the right to vote women that’s a huge the 19th amendment and so today we’re gonna look at a voting patent from way back in 1881 I love these old patents you can take a look at it here these patents are I mean they’re they’re what’s interesting is that they have the same types of drawings that we put forward today he almost 200 years patent drawings haven’t changed that much so you can see if you take a close look at this drawing there are dashed lines solid lines numerical outlines that actually point to different aspects of the invention and these call-outs are the same requirements that have to be done for today’s patent drawings so have a look at this voting mechanism which actually standardized the way that you can vote and eliminated the need for handwritten voting cards we’re back in the 1800s so today’s today’s challenge I mentioned earlier about going back in history I want you to work with someone else think about their industry have them talk about who their forefathers are they’re famous they’re there they’re most they’re interesting paths right think about who they think of as a inspiration it’s making their technology move forward it’ll help you think about who yours might be and it’ll help you think about how you’re going to move your technology into the market differently than anyone else I hope you enjoy today’s version of bold today’s show I’m your host JD who Vener go big go bold [Music] at bold IP calm
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so again thanks for listening and being a part of the bold today’s show I’m your host JD Houvener be bold today at bold IP calm
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