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These Aren’t The Patent Trolls You’re Looking For | TechCrunch

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These Aren’t The Patent Trolls You’re Looking For | TechCrunch: Wow this is a great analysis/discussion of Patent Trolls. This is a great discussion of the companies that exercise their IP rights and ways in which they do so. IBM invents a lot (patents) but doesn’t directly utilize most of their inventions directly. Plus, even if they do, they often have peripheral uses of the technology where licensing out is a great way to commercialize….

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Courthouse News: Marvell at this. $1.17B x 3 is almost Comic!

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Courthouse News Service: A chip maker, Marvel Technology Group, just lost a $1.17B law suit for stealing the technology of Carnegie Mellon University. One has to marvel at this company’s antics, a company that trades by the symbol MRVL, and should in no way be confused with the comic company, although its antics carry both intrigue and humor. You might call them the Chip Pirates of the Caribbean given their off-short headquarters in Bermuda. Their…

PWC, What you get when there's too much Booz in the baby naming process.

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I fear that PWC was boozing it up a little too much when the rebranded their subsidiary to be now called: “Strategy &“.  And what, you ask?Booz & Co is a buyout subsidiary of Price Waterhouse Cooper (PWC), the large accounting/consulting firm. It seems only right that the division with the boozy name should be revamped as something else, Right? But, in a drunken stupor, they couldn’t really come up with what the division will…

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The STEM shortage: Crisis or myth? | Spring 2014

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The STEM shortage: Crisis or myth? | Spring 2014: Wow, give a look at this on STEM jobs and education. (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education). So how do we (u.s.a) stem the STEM shortage? This is an interesting article about the STEM PIPELINE that has a lot of leakingcouplings.  This is an original article in UoP’s Faculty Matters magazine. Keywords: school, university, training, innovation,  STEM, jobs, economic development,‘via Blog this’

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IBM Seeks Patent on Software that Incorporates Human Emotion

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IBM Seeks Patent on Software that Incorporates Human Emotion – IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law: IBM patents emotions. How does that make your feel? Sad? Mad? Glad?Well, let’s not get emotional about this. But it seems that our friends at IBM, the patent King, has a rather cleaver line on patents. IBM is making efforts to emulate the types of things done by the human emotions. Multiple channels, multiple inputs. One would assume the…

Kickstarter CEO: 'Veronica Mars' proves 'the power of audiences' | Inside Movies | EW.com

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Kickstarter CEO: ‘Veronica Mars’ proves ‘the power of audiences’ | Inside Movies | EW.com: When you go to watch Veronica Mars, if you haven’t already done so… Think about this. It has been the greatest success for any movie launched by crowd funding! Capitalism at work by the masses. Very cool. They blasted through the goal of $2M and raised $5.7M from 91,000+ backers. Here is the YouTube Video teaser that they used to raise…