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Who will beat Amazon in the New-Abnormal

ByBizMan

The COVID pandemic creates winners and losers. Will it simply accelerated some winners and some losers. As with any recession, it creates destructive innovation. In the sad carnage of the pandemic should lie silver linings. Telework is one. Winners are ZOOM, losers are office buildings. We’re spending some time on this concept trying to estimate how permanent this shift to remote work will be and the massive savings (time, fuel, traffic, etc.) But the focus…

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IntellZine: Big winners of Renewable Energy — IP and Manufacturing

BySustainMe

Here is a June 7 2020 post over on IntellZine, our Intellectual Property-centric bog. The blog post was about Renewable Energy patents an how much they have expanded, especially solar IP. Here is the Big winners of Renewable Energy: IP and Manufacturing article. As you look at the companies that are winners in Renewable Energy (RE) you have distinct winners (and losers, especially in the fossil fuel world). But there are entire countries that stand to win…

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Potatoes and Patents

ByBizMan

Patents, Potatoes and Pomegranates  “I remember thinking- there cannot be anything clever in delivering beans…”  That was the reaction of Lucy Wojcik in 2014 being interviewed for the job of IP attorney at Ocado, an online supermarket company in the United Kingdom. It does furrow eyebrows when considering the part, if any, IP would play in a company that grows vegetables and fruits and then distributes them as meals, but now Ms Wojcik has a…

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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…