Invent Anything™

About Invent Anything™

In this series, John Cronin and Seth Cronin share insights relating to invention, creativity, and intellectual property. These insights were collected over 17 years at IBM (John became its top inventor with over 100 patents and 150 patent publications) and 35 combined years as intellectual property and innovation consultants at ipCapital Group (working with over 800 companies and approximately 15% of the Fortune 500, hundreds of mid-size companies and hundreds of startups and governmental laboratories).

Publisher

ipCapital Group

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Feb 2021

Latest episode

29 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

72 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Sept 2026

   AI Gave You 100 Invention Ideas. Now What? | This Week in IP

   AI can give you a hundred invention ideas. Which one solves a problem somebody actually cares about—and what would you build to find out? Seth Cronin looks at where AI belongs in invention: new Atlassian research on brainstorming, a Procore patent for smart safety glasses, and a simple travel-mug problem that turns a list of features into something you can test. Also: MIT’s dissolving batteries, Microchip’s completed Hailo acquisition, a robotic wine server, eleven Purdue patents, and Subaru’s exterior-airbag design for protecting people outside the vehicle. Where has AI helped you get from a plausible idea to a useful test? Share the specific example. This Week in IP, from Invent Anything. Hosted by Seth Cronin | ipCapital Group. Recorded September 23, 2026; sources dated September 21–22. CHAPTERS 0:00 100 ideas. Now what? 0:36 MIT’s dissolving batteries 1:19 Microchip buys Hailo 2:04 A robotic wine server 2:54 Purdue’s eleven patents 3:42 AI and the first spark of invention 5:42 Procore’s smart safety glasses patent 6:24 A better travel mug: problem, constraints, test 8:22 What is different? The prior-art question 9:37 Subaru’s exterior-airbag patent Sources, links and the full video: https://youtu.be/vw_ruDzFTD0 (https://youtu.be/vw_ruDzFTD0) The Atlassian result concerns brainstorming tasks, not patentability. The MIT work includes animal testing. Patent disclosures do not establish a product launch, performance or safety. Generated illustrative scenes are not footage of the companies’ products. MUSIC: “The Crate Desk” — original composition for Invent Anything. Piano recordings by Versilian Studios, packaged by Nicholaus P. Brosowsky (tonejs-instruments), CC BY 3.0; pitch-shifted, arranged and processed. No endorsement implied. Additional sounds: Karoryfer Black and Blue Basses and VCSL (CC0); GeneralUser GS by S. Christian Collins. Jev LevelDrive saturation used under its MIT license.

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   22 Sept 2026

   Can 3 Patents Block Apple, Samsung & Google Devices?

   BoomCloud 360 is asking to block imports of certain Apple, Samsung and Google devices. What happens when a patent dispute becomes a product-launch problem? In the first Unofficial Patent Gazette from Invent Anything, Seth Cronin looks at three audio patents, the U.S. International Trade Commission, and what the requested import restrictions could mean for product teams. At the time covered by this episode, the ITC had opened an investigation, with no infringement finding or import ban in this case. Also this week: the reported $27.6 million Stratasys/Bambu Lab jury verdict, Oxford Nanopore's announcement of a preliminary injunction against MGI Tech, a focused spatial-audio patent search, and a published swimming-pool rescue application that raises a net from the pool floor. If infringement is proven, should one patented feature be enough to keep an entire product out of the country? Or should compensation be enough? Let me know in the comments. Subscribe to Invent Anything for more on patents, inventions, and the business of innovation. CHAPTERS 0:00 Three patents and the U.S. border 0:47 Stratasys vs. Bambu Lab: the jury verdict 1:34 Oxford Nanopore and MGI Tech 2:16 BoomCloud vs. Apple, Samsung and Google 2:50 Why an ITC case becomes a product problem 3:37 The domestic-industry requirement 4:01 Apple's separate Supreme Court petition 5:02 What the spatial-audio patent data tells us 6:20 Beyond counting patents 6:51 Patent of the Week: a pool-rescue system 7:57 What changes for the product? EPISODE The Unofficial Patent Gazette, Episode 001: Patents at the Border Host: Seth Cronin Recorded September 21, 2026. News window: September 14-18, 2026. Apple's September 3 petition is included as background. SOURCES BoomCloud investigation, USITC 337-TA-1521: https://www.usitc.gov/press_room/news_release/2026/er0916_69235.htm Official notice identifying the three asserted patents, US 10,524,078; US 11,533,560; US 11,051,121: https://www.usitc.gov/secretary/fed_reg_notices/337/337_1521_notice09162026sgl.pdf Stratasys/Bambu Lab verdict reporting, Bloomberg Law: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/stratasys-wins-27-million-from-bambu-in-3d-printing-patent-suit Oxford Nanopore company announcement, RNS 9084U: https://www.tradingview.com/news/reuters.com,2026-09-16:newsml_RSP9084Ua:0-reg-oxford-nanopore-tech-preliminary-injunction-against-mgi-tech-gmbh/ Apple v. ITC, Supreme Court docket 26-316: https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/26-316.html Patent of the Week: Automatic Rescue System for Swimming Pools, US 2026/0274385 A1, Amir Rahimpour: https://image-ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/20260274385 PATENT DATA Minesoft Origin searches, September 18, 2026. BoomCloud: 45 U.S. applications, grouped by application; continuations remain separate. Spatial audio: 642 results in the defined U.S. keyword search, published since 2016. These searches have different scopes. Counts are not separate inventions, market shares, or predictions of the case's outcome. The pool-rescue document is a published application, not evidence of a validated commercial product.

3. 

   31 May 2026

   Your Provisional Patent Is Filed: Now What? - IA #72

   You filed a provisional patent application. The clock is ticking on your year of protection. So what should you actually do with it? In this episode of Invent Anything, John Cronin, who has spent three decades in intellectual property at IP Capital Group, walks through a practical, six-topic game plan for getting the most out of your provisional: - Taking stock: what kind of provisional did you really file? - Immediate actions to take in the first weeks - What to do at the three-month and six-month marks - How different players (inventors, CEOs, investors, CTOs) view your provisional - Closing it out: abandon, or convert to a full patent? - The future of intellectual asset management, and how agentic AI may soon handle much of this for you Whether you're a first-time inventor, a startup, or part of a larger organization, this is a clear, business-minded plan for turning a provisional into real value.

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