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Readying a Patent Portfolio for Sale

ByBizMan

In years gone by, companies with extensive patent portfolios were loathe to sell these assets, strongly preferring to license them.  These Patent Licensing Agreements (PLA) came in several flavors, most had some form of royalty payments for the licensor and the fundamental was that ownership of the patents remained with the original owner, i.e., the company granted the patent(s). While not totally different today, much has changed in the disposition of thousands of US patents. …

Maria Pallante out of Copyright. Unified IP?

ByBizMan

Maria Pallante: out of Copyright Office Great article by Dennis Crouch over at Patently-O. (But then aren’t they all great over there.) Apparently Pallante is out as Chief of the Copyright office. And the clamor is up as to why we don’t have a unified IP at the patent and trademark office, kind of a US PTOC. (I guess that would be pronounced Pea-Talk, or PeeTalk, if you wanted to talk dirty.) Back in 2012,…

Oh Frack… Ain't no such thang clean oil n gas!

BySustainMe

You’ve heard that there ain’t no such thing as “Clean” Coal. Maybe scrubbing some of the sulpher and removing some of the heavly metals. But certainly not clean. And then there’s the dirty little secret of Coal Ash!. But this article sums up the current research related to fracking. Ouch. Evidense keeps mounting about the down-side of oil fracking. This article really sums it up.  Link to the Ecologist article on Fracking. Of course, our…

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Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace. – The Washington Post

BySustainMe

Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace. – The Washington Post: This is a great article about the “open air” cubicle farm for workers. Or “fish bowl” for employees. Telecommuting would help this work better. If someone has a real deadline and real work that needs to be done, they could work at home. Try to schedule meetings priority days so people who need to meet can all be on campus…

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Photographer Files $1 Billion Suit Against Getty for Licensing Her Public Domain Images

ByBizMan

Photographer Files $1 Billion Suit Against Getty for Licensing Her Public Domain Images [UPDATED] – Hyperallergic: Wow. Getty was selling public domain photos to everyone, including the photog herself. Getty was notifying people with the images that they must pay money to keep using them (on their own web sites, etc.). So the copyright owner, Carol Highsmith, gets a $120 bill for using her own picture on her own web site. Highsmith had donated the…

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Olivier Scalabre: The next manufacturing revolution is here | TED Talk | TED.com

ByBizMan

Olivier Scalabre: The next manufacturing revolution is here | TED Talk | TED.com: Yes. It is here. The next generation of manufacturing.This is an absolutely spot on TED talk related to the world of manufacturing. Everyone in the USA wines and complains about the flight of manufacturing from the USA. We don’t make anything any more. That’s not really true. We still make a lot of stuff, but the percentage of the workforce that makes…