Kids' Pages on Patents and Inventions
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| Audience/Grade: | 5 - High School Senior |
| Discipline(s): |
Design Entrepreneurship and Innovation General Engineering, Engineering Science |
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| Learning Resource Type: |
Reference - General |
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Organization:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office |
| Description: | Answers to the most frequently asked kids' questions about patents, trademarks and copyrights and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Designed for children as a resource with definitions and examples, such as: "The youngest person to be granted a patent is a four-year-old girl from Houston, Texas, for an aid for grasping round knobs." and "The first U.S. patent was granted in 1790 to Samuel Hopkins of Philadelphia for "making pot and pearl ashes"-a cleaning formula used in soapmaking." |
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| Keywords: | patents inventions trademarks |
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| Use of Resource: |
Good resource for kids, as well as teachers. |
| Difficulty: |
Easy |
| Interactivity Level: |
Medium |
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| Publication Date: | July 2007 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ahrpa/opa/kids/kidprimer.html |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
NEEDS
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