posted 19 Apr 2010 10:10 by Bob Lindsey
JNDC Engineering Design undertake Engineering Design and Prototyping (see www.jndc.co.uk). Their traditional work involves selling consultancy services, particularly in such applications as Finite Element Analysis. However, they are also pro-active in seeking novel solutions to existing problems and aim to build up a range of products to sell into the engineering and manufacturing industries or to license to marketing / manufacturing organisations. They will present a number of case studies to the club and will also brainstorm for applications for a novel lighting product. |
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Jan Niklewicz and Dean Carran presented a case-study which started as a project to solve a lighting problem and led to a specialised application for LED lighting.
After the break a discussion was held on patenting and the problems of getting a “no-match” from a search. This was highlighted by Alan Ferdman’s experience of an initial search being “good” (i.e. no relevant match) with a subsequent search showing some prior art affecting two claims.