The perfect time to launch a new product is always now. Time is never the friend of the entrepreneur. If you wait for the perfect time, the best market conditions to appear, someone can beat you to market with a product that cannibalizes the best parts of your idea. This happens all too often. Waiting for a better climate is an excuse for inaction and a sure path to mediocrity. Charles Darrow's launch of Monopoly in 1935 at the height of the Great Depression is a wonderful example to study.

We must demand that politicians stop bribing us for our votes with promises of benefits that some future generation will be saddled with paying for. This is the best possible time for Americans to reflect, adjust and re-energize this wonderfully dynamic country.

Patent law is an extremely specific practice. There is a reason patent attorney's typically handle no other categories of legal work. The Kearns vs. Ford Motor Company patent suit was arduous and tortured. The patent law principal of â??obviousnessâ? was the center of the dispute. Ford claimed that the Kearns invention was â??obviousâ?, a device made up of pre-existing components.