ARM Takes Its Chip Business Beyond Phones – WSJ:ARM Holdings, $ARMH, is one of the great intellectual property engines of our time. They make the chips used in cell phones and other computing devices. Or, stated more accurately, they invent the chips, and then license out the manufacturing, sales and distribution of them.One thing that has made them such a dominant force is low power use technologies, exactly the kinds of things you need for…
Apple Loses Patent Infringement Suit, Ordered to Pay $533 Million | Rolling Stone: It seems apropos that Rolling Stone would have a great report on the iTunes (Apple) law suit loss to the tune of 1/2 billion dollar$. The loss rules that Apple did infringe on the 6 patents related to the storing and accessing of songs, videos and games. In the suit that might well be called the the Apple vs. the Troll, the ruling…
Has DOW gotten its groove back? | Watch the video – Yahoo Finance: Interview on Mad Money of Andrew N. Liveris, Pres., Chair and CEO. Dow chemicals is now a innovation, high-tech company? That’s right. The olde staunching company now has two-thirds of its products in with intellectual property (IP). Proprietary products are 66% of their products. ! Was 100% petrochemicals (kindof). Here you can find out about their products: http://www.dow.com/products/ They are creating massive facilities…
SU Labs | Singularity University: Check out Singularity University… Exponential growth in information and technologies. Here is the introduction of the Singularity University at the TED conference by Ray Kurzweil in 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMYVH-hBGWg Very cool This is interesting changes in technologies and technologies. ‘via Blog this’
Symantec, Microsoft, Blue Cross: Intellectual Property – Bloomberg: A patent troll, by any other name, may not be called a “patent troll” in court. This would be funny, if it weren’t true. The often called “patent troll” company Intellectual Ventures LLC, can not be disparages by such names as “patent troll” in court the presiding judge says. IV — a play on the vampire concept of draining all the blood from the body of otherwise living…
Business method patent issuance has plummeted since Alice | Managing Intellectual Property: Trends in Business method patents has seriously dropped since the Supreme Court ruled on the Alice v CLS Bank case in June. The court ruled that an abstract idea is not necessarily a business method and saying that it will be done on computers (network/cloud) doesn’t assure it to be a valid claim either. This ruling knocks back business method (and software patents). So the…
