The Future of Computers and Quantum Computing

ByBizMan

Do you know what Gordon Moore actually said? In 1965 Gordon Moore observed that if you graphed in the increase of transistors on a planar semiconductor device using semi-log paper, it would describe a straight line. This observation ultimately became known as Moore’s law. The “l” is lower case in the academic literature because the law is not some grand organizing principle that explained a series of facts. Rather it was simply an observation. Moore…

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The ESOP of Branding: Bumped.com

ByBizMan

This is one of the coolest things ever in branding. BUMPED. And I’ll bet you haven’t bumped into it yet. I assume that the name comes from the idea of going to one of your posts or items-for-sale and typing in “bump”. It may be a couple days without activity, and now it has activity today. This is similar to the idea of going to your web site and changing something on it — any…

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Where Intellectual Property (IP) and Sustainability Meet (GMO and Monsanto)

ByBizMan

For decades Monsanto has enjoyed Intellectual Property (IP) protection on both sides of the plant-agro business. The dominant herbicide in the world, RoundUP, and the Genetically Engineered (GE or GMO) crops that shrug off the active ingredient – glyphosate – in RoundUp. Patented Product (herbicide) that relies on Patented Products (GE crops) Monsanto started using their glyphosate product in the 1970’s, a product that would become widely marketed under the branded and trademarked name of…

IP for Corn that fertilizes itself with Nitrogen Fixing bacteria.

ByBizMan

From SustainZine: Corn that fertilizes itself with Nitrogen Fixing bacteria. How best to propagate the innovation & commercialize it. #SustainZine #RegenerativeFarminghttp://sustainzine.com/2018/08/corn-that-fertilizes-itself-with.html*** Blog Article ***This is a cool article in Science by Ed Young about a giant corn varietal in Sierra Mixe Mexico that grows in very poor soil, but actually fertilizes itself. There’s a bacteria that grows around the roots that absorbs nitrogen from the air and provides it to the corn. The team of researchers led by Alan Bennett from…

Taking Liberty, A $3.5m copyright stamp of mistaken identity

ByBizMan

Putting the Status of Liberty on a US stamp seems like a no brainer, send someone out to take an original picture of miss liberty, stamp it and run. Or, get full rights to a picture, modify it to your hearts content — maybe make her happier to be holding up so well after most of a century in the New York weather! (Maybe add a Mono Lisa Smile!?)… But, often, copyrights may not be…

Jury Awards Apple $539 Million in Samsung Patent Case – The New York Times

ByBizMan

Jury Awards Apple $539 Million in Samsung Patent Case – The New York Times: The do-over award to Apple from Samsung on the patents law suit (and damages) is down to $539M from the original $1B. Here’s info on the original infringement ruling of $1B. VentureBeat has a good take on this as well. The war chest of patents — world wide — is massive in order to play in the smart phone and tablet…