When you hear The Mickey Mouse Protection act, you are probably thinking about how to keep the mouse’s tail out from under the heavy boots of the Florida State Governor. But the Law that is informally called the Mickey Mouse Protection Act of 1995 extended copyright protection for an additional 20 years, giving Disney until November 2024 before the first copyrights on Mickey Mouse begin to roll off copyright protection. This means that by Christmas…
Wouldn’t it be nice if service clubs had a simple set of tools that they could use for more efficient management – easy to use questionnaires for the board and members that will provide a benchmark and help identify initiatives that will advance the club each year. The new book is Perpetual Innovation™: Club Management Workbook, or Pi-C™ for short. The Pi-C workbook is the latest in the Perpetual Innovation™ series and it builds on…
Samsung Electronics received the most US patents in 2022 for the first time since 1993. IBM, which had held the top spot for 29 consecutive years, came in second place. Rank Company Patents 1 Samsung Electronics 6,248 2 IBM 4,398 3 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing 3,024 4 Huawei Technologies 2,836 5 Canon 2,694 6 LG Electronics 2,641 7 Qualcomm 2,625 8 Intel 2,418 9 Apple 2,285 10 Toyota 2,214 In terms of the total “assigned” patents,…
I’ve been soliciting the sage advise and wise words of the BARD recently… I got my new best buddy Bard (AI from Google) to help with two blogs: World Water Day 2023: Accelerating Change on March 22 and Earth Day 2023: Invest in our Planet on April 22. But, William Shakespeare would be 459 years olde today (~23 April 1564 — 23 April 1616), so I wondered what “The Bard” would have to say? On…
(This was originally published as sister site SustainZine. Note the discussion of Earth Day related charities below.) Â [With AI contribution from Bard.] I got my buddy Bard (AI from Google) to help with two blogs: World Water Day 2023: Accelerating Change in March and Earth Day 2023: Invest in our Planet in April (this blog post).
I got my new best buddy Bard (AI from Google) to help with two blogs: World Water Day 2023: Accelerating Change in March and Earth Day 2023: Invest in our Planet in April (this blog post). The world’s population is growing rapidly — blasting through the 8 billion humans on the planet last year — and the demands on the resources of Earth are likewise increasing. So, I got together (via the Internet) with my…
