Want some tips and tricks for competitive patent searching? We have a few tips for you in Patent Olympiad Training Camp, a series of short informational pieces from the organizers and sponsors.

And now the reveal. Our riddle, decrypted. The answers to our POPQuiz 3 enigma.

Was our poem too enigmatic?

Just in case you’d like some clues, today we begin a gallery of clues for POPQuiz #3.

On a shore that gave birth to a field

The love of a William revealed

A crack team of two

A cloak red + blue

And ideas: more breaking than making.

Even patents aren’t immune to the power of Dracula’s bite.

For this week’s POPQuiz, we are looking for Dracula-inspired patents that maximize a highly arbitrary score we’ll call the VI, also known as the Vlad Index. Or Vampire Index.

At least two Romanian inventors, one past, one present, have both developed a type of device that would be illegal in one small town in France. Video records of one such device exist.

Can you answer this week’s POPQuiz?

UPDATE: We will release our answers on August 9, 2019 at 23:59:59 AoE Time (UTC -12 h).

Patent Olympiad 2019 is less than 3 months away. Will you be ready?
Join us weekly until mid-September for a weekly POPQuiz – your Patent Olympiad Preliminaries!

Today is July 29, 2019. We are 90 days out…and counting down. Will you join us?
Here’s what you need to know now…

You’ve probably heard…and yes, it’s official. Patent Olympiad 2019 is happening!

This year, our host conference will be the European Patent Organization’s EPOPIC 2019 in Bucharest, Romania. Want to join us? Stay tuned for registration details! (Update as of July 14, 2019: Registration is now open!)

In less than three weeks, patent researchers from around the world will be gathering at the Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy. .

Will you be among the first?