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Mr. Smithson, 46, an insurance salesman from Leesburg, Fla., is among many people who have submitted ideas but have not previously considered themselves professional inventors.
That's why I can't help but sigh when I read about a coming renaissance in invention or a technology-driven resurgence of talented amateur/multidisciplinary professional inventors.
The professional or amateur status of an inventor is relevant, since professional inventors earn ordinary income.
The resulting patent is a capital asset, while professional inventors earn ordinary income.
As professional inventors, we rely on these disciplines every day, and want to share our excitement about them with kids young and old.
This isn't for inventors, per se ("There haven't been professional inventors in the United States since 1840s," El-Hage said), but rather specialists who want a role in designing the products that they're going to buy.
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The only child of a father who was a professional inventor and a mother who wrote a society column for The Los Angeles Times, Cage counted among his ancestors Daniel Boone and a namesake who apparently helped Washington survey Virginia.
The technologist who wants to be a lifelong learner and a creative professional inventor can profit from different techniques that cognitive psychology proved to be effective for learning, like metaphor, story and visualization, focused and diffuse modes of thinking, interleaving and how to overcome Einstellung.
It must be pretty cool to be a professional inventor.
I am a professional inventor, specializing in innovative consumer products.
Like many scientists, he was an occasional rather than professional inventor.
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