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Quickly analyze terms of service to determine the circumstances under which a social media site can take down your content or account.

This is a quick post (after all, it will be outdated in a week) letting you know that the USPTO

Ozempic went generic in Canada because Novo didn’t pay a $450 maintenance fee. Patents aren’t set-and-forget assets. After securing a patent, owners must pay maintenance fees (also called renewal fees) to keep it in force. Miss a payment, and the patent can lapse into the public domain, meaning anyone can use the once-protected invention freely.

For an unknown reason, Google is no longer indexing or serving pages on this domain on their search engine. This means that the site is essentially non-existent for the vast majority of internet users. I’m slowing down my posting schedule from daily to periodic while the expert I hired tries to figure out what the problem is.

In the spirit of transparency, this brief note reveals how Innovation Cafe uses AI when creating content. Readers get an honest disclosure about any artificial assistance behind the scenes. It’s a quick read that emphasizes the site’s commitment to trust—explaining the creative process and ensuring you know who (or what) is crafting the ideas you enjoy.

When inspiration strikes, you might not have a fully polished invention yet—but you can still safeguard it. This article shows how filing a provisional patent application can quickly protect your idea while you develop it further. It walks you through the why and how of going provisional, so you secure an early filing date and buy yourself time to refine and test your innovation before committing to the full patent process.

It’s hard to say goodbye, especially to an invention you’ve poured your heart into. But if you have a great invention, sometimes letting it go (by selling or licensing it) is the best way to introduce it to the world.