Building a Business Plan: The basic components – YouTube

BySustainMe

Building a Business Plan: The basic components – YouTube: “ Here’s the basics about a business plan by yours truly, Dr. Elmer Hall, President of Strategic Business Planning Company. We help develop the plans that every business needs(tm). “ All, right. It doesn’t have direct application to Sustainability… Except that we aim to encourage sustainable businesses in all the spellings of the word “sustainable”. Businesses do need to be profitable. Look at the sustainable growth rate…

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Software Patents, soft patents, Hard Litigations

ByBizMan

This article from the Institute for Policy Innovationhttp://www.ipi.org/ipi_issues/detail/what-software-patents-have-wrought-a-lottery-ticket-to-a-lawsuit comments on yet another issue in the turmoil of today’s IP landscape- one that resembles a war zone.  Because software has become such a vital part of today’s tech and semi-tech products and services, it makes sense to provide some real protection for the originators if the invention is unprecedented and provides value.  The flood of software patents has opened Pandora’s box however and the box is…

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Clean Power Plan | TBO.com, The Tampa Tribune and The Tampa Times

BySustainMe

Why I support the EPA’s Clean Power Plan | TBO.com, The Tampa Tribune and The Tampa Times: This July 28, 2014 article by Lynn Ringenberg (Professor Emeritus at USF) discusses the horrible health and wellness impacts of burning coal. “There is no such thing as clean coal.” The good news is that Natural Gas is so plentiful in the states and so very very cheap, that it is seriously supplanting coal in power plant production….

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Intellectual Property Counterfeiting- more than an Ownership Problem

ByBizMan

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 continually addressed on a corporate level.

Control of IP on Business Side of Corporation

ByBizMan

There’s a key point in this IAM magazine article by Joff Wild in the July 9, 2014, issue.  Note that the Chief IP Officer is not an attorney- he a business professional.  This is a significant change, a recognition that commercialization of Intellectual Property in a marketed product, a Patent Licensing Agreement with Royalties, a technology transfer or an outright patent sale is a business decision, not a legal one.  In some companies going back…