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    States Act Forcibly to Halt or Limit Patent Trolls

    The patent troll condition -as identified- is a relatively new phenomenon/hot spot in the IP world, perhaps one or two decades old.  To be sure, there were isolated cases of troll-like behavior as far back as the 1970s, but nothing like the scope, intensity and frequency of the past several years.  Today’s trolls not only…

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    Quality, excellence and (Perpetual) Innovation

    Quality Improvement programs like TQM are a key part of building a sustainable competitive advantage for companies. Every couple years there is an improvement or a new flavor of TQM, like six sigma and lean six sigma. Talking about quality… The Baldrige Program is a rather cool program for improving the process of quality in…

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    copyrights win, kindof. Aereo gets hammered pirating broadcast content, kindof

    Justices Rule Aereo Violates Broadcasters’ Copyrights http://online.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-rules-against-aereo-sides-with-broadcasters-in-copyright-case-1403705891 Interesting ruling today. Kind of reminds you of the old NAPSTER daze when pirating muzak was king, and paying for music was passe.This is interesting. So you can not necessarily pay someone to put up rabbit ears for you, and steam you the air broadcast shows. The commercials…

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    Intellectual Property Counterfeiting- more than an Ownership Problem

    IP counterfeiting doesn’t get alot of press these days and hasn’t for decades, but, this article definitely needs reading.  Here is the link:IP Counterfeiting Yet another in a growing list of situations in which crime appears to pay- or, it is clearly worth the risks involved.IP owners have another aspect of commercialization that must be…

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    BioLite BaseCamp Stove | Turn Fire into Electricity by BioLite — Kickstarter

    BioLite BaseCamp Stove | Turn Fire into Electricity by BioLite — Kickstarter: I love it. But only 62 hours to get in on the KickStarter offer. They are at twice goal with $800k+ and 3,000 backers. Yes, it was DARK in Miami, when Hurricane Andrew came through South Miami/Homestead on August 24, 1992. Well, afterwards…

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    Sports IP and the Fragmentation Economy: World IP Day 2026

    From Streaming Chaos to Athlete-Owned Brands It is Sunday afternoon. The game starts in eleven minutes. He knows which team he wants to watch. He has followed them for thirty years — through bad seasons and worse coaches, through stadium renovations and ownership changes and one inexplicable trade he has never forgiven. He has the…