18 July 2013
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Innovate welcomes work placement student Alastair Swanwick standing on the balcony of the The Institute of Minerals, Materials & Mining, London presenting the Plastic Design Award to James Scott. A (very) warm welcome to James Scott, a student at Northumbria University Design School, who has recently joined Innovate on a two month placement. James [...]
11 July 2013
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Innovate's San Francisco office runs workshop On the 29th June, our colleagues in the San Francisco office organised a great event entitled "From Concept to Product to Market", a free workshop held at the TechLAB Innovation Center. Several people attended the event and benefitted from listening to advice and winning tips from the speakers, who included: Curtis [...]
11 July 2013
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Innovate's Operations Manager Elected Associate Member of CIPA Congratulations to our very own Della Williams, Operations Manager at Innovate, who has recently been elected an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys. This election comes following Della completing the Patent Administration Course and passing the final exam in April 2010. We are always [...]
25 April 2013
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Innovate Clients Feature in Inventors Digest In the March 2013 issue of Inventors Digest two of Innovate's US clients were featured. The 'Pizza Fretta Fryer' A kitchen product designed to help the everyday chef to cook individually sized Pizza Frettas (deep fried pizza dough). Fitting in to a frying pan, users can personalise their fretta [...]
15 April 2013
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Innovate client Alago on BBC Points West The team here were really excited to see our client Tony Curtis of Alago being interviewed on BBC Points West on the 11th April. Alago gloves use heated glove technology to keep the user's hands warm whilst playing a variety of outdoor sports. Tony is working with the [...]
15 April 2013
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Innovate TV Apperance In March 2013 Innovate staff were interviewed by Persian TV channel Manoto 1 Talking on the development and protection of new product ideas our team were joined by our client Kate Castle, the inventor of BogInABag. If you would like to watch the interview then you can see it here.
15 April 2013
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Our New Toy - A 3D Printer The team at Innovate were pleased to recently receive one of the UK's first 'MakerBot Replicator 2' 3D Printers. What is 3D Printing? 3D printing is the process of making a three-dimensional solid object of virtually any shape from a digital model. 3D printing is achieved using an additive process, where successive [...]
22 February 2013
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Crowdfunding – Hope for entrepreneurs in difficult times? There can be little doubt that the plight of the everyday inventor has had its challenges for a long time, with difficulties in obtaining funding to get the project off the ground being an oft-repeated cause of sleepless nights. The recent economic plight in the UK and [...]
7 February 2013
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Xpanda Bra - maternity nursing bra launches Innovate Design are delighted to announce that one of our clients has launched his new product, Xpanda Bra®. Xpanda Bra® - The ultimate comfort maternity nursing bra for today's nursing mother Xpanda Bra® is a new unique adjustable nursing bra which allows for the increase of the cup size [...]
31 January 2013
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Innovate on BBC Radio Wiltshire Della Williams, Patent Research Manager at Innovate, featured on BBC Radio Wiltshire on Monday morning talking to Mark O' Donnell about how to protect an invention idea. BBC Radio Wiltshire were doing a special show on celebrating Wiltshire inventions. Mark asked Della all sorts of questions on how best [...]