New York Medical Resident Wins “What’s Your BIG Idea?” Contest

Sponsored by IdeaTango.com and Townsend and Townsend and Crew Law Firm

Dallas, TX (PRWeb) Nov. 12, 2008 – New York inventor and medical resident Brian Leykum has won the 2008 “What’s Your BIG Idea?” Contest sponsored by IdeaTango.com and intellectual property law firm Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP.

Leykum, who is currently in his first year of medical residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, won one free U.S. Provisional Patent Application service provided by Townsend, which is valued at over $4,000.  His invention is an early detection and warning device for the presence of carbon monoxide in a home.

“Medicine is my career, but I’d always like this to be a sideline,” said Leykum.  “This is the first idea I’ve had that has a viable commercial application.”

Two second place winners – Anthony Anderson of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Jorge Bedoya of Scarborough, Ontario, Canada -- will each receive one hour of free legal consultation services.

“The goal of this contest was to encourage and promote the spirit of grassroots invention and entrepreneurship that drives the American dream,” said Bryan Daigle, founder of IdeaTango.com, the social networking website that helps educate inventors throughout the inventing process.

"We love working with inventors and businesses to help bring new technologies to the marketplace," said Brian Colucci, Townsend’s director of marketing.  "Their innovation has always driven our economy and we look forward to working with Mr. Leykum to help him realize his dream of bringing this unique invention to market."

About Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP: With offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Walnut Creek, San Diego, Denver, Seattle, Washington, D.C. and Tokyo, Townsend (www.townsend.com) has more than 230 attorneys and patent professionals, many with advanced technical degrees and extensive scientific and business experience. Townsend was recently selected by the publishers of Managing Intellectual Property (a Euromoney publication), as the “Patent Prosecution Firm of the Year” in the U.S., and regionally as the “Patent Prosecution Firm of the Year” in the western U.S. 

About IdeaTango.com: Based in Dallas, IdeaTango.com acts as a catalyst for innovation by providing users with collaborative tools that help them learn, grow, share, and bring new products to market.  The company was recently acquired by InventBay.com, Inc., which brings together inventors seeking assistance with capital, along with all of the other resources needs that will help inventors to bring their projects to market. InventBay.com connects inventors with capital resources, and service industry professionals such as patent attorneys, designers, prototype developers, consultants and other inventors with a variety of free services to aid the invention community.