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  • Intellectual Property @ IBM

    Intellectual Property @ IBM:

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    This IBM Blog article talks about US Innovation: alive and well.
    IBM blasts it outta the park again in 2011 with the most patents issued by the USPTO. These are organized by the owner of the patents, the “assignee”. See the top 50 list at IFIClaims.
    IBM had 6,180 patents issued in the US, far more than the next inventor company.
    The electronics companies from Japan and Korea were strong in the top 15.
    Here are the top US companies. Note that Microsoft is in 6th place with 2,311 patents issued. Quite a change for a company that once relied mostly on copyright for it IP protection. GE at #11 with 1,448 patents. HP dropped to 14 as the company struggles.
    The big automakers were generally in the middle of the pack with GM #18 with 1,095 patents. Apple at 39 with 676 patents (but then, not all patents are created equal). DuPont was #50 with 523 patents.
    Rank
    Grants
    Company Name
    Country
    1
    6180
    International Business Machines Corp
    United States
    6
    2311
    Microsoft Corp
    United States
    11
    1448
    General Electric Co
    United States
    14
    1308
    Hewlett-Packard Development Co L P
    United States
    16
    1244
    Intel Corp
    United States
    17
    1164
    Broadcom Corp
    United States
    18
    1095
    GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    United States
    22
    980
    Cisco Technology Inc
    United States
    24
    947
    Micron Technology Inc
    United States
    26
    923
    Qualcomm Inc
    United States
    28
    880
    Xerox Corp
    United States
    32
    794
    Texas Instruments Inc
    United States
    33
    780
    Honeywell International Inc
    United States
    35
    721
    AT&T Intellectual Property I L P
    United States
    37
    695
    Boeing Co The
    United States
    39
    676
    Apple Inc
    United States
    50
    523
    Du Pont de Nemours, E I & Co
    United States

  • Happy Digital Learning Day

    This day is sponsored by the National Writing Project…
    http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3729

    Here’s a pretty cool article on the idea with some great links at the bottom.
    http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/happy-digital-learning-day

    via ST… Thanks.

  • Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming – WSJ.com

    Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming – WSJ.com:

    Interesting group who signed off on this.

    Certainly there are smarter things to do and less-smart things to do related to becoming sustainable. In some cases (many cases) the best way to sustainability is to bring a developing economy up out of poverty: you’re not very concerned about the environment if/when you are struggling to stay alive.
    It should be interesting to see what the big COLD weather this winter in Can + Alaska will show in the melting ice caps.

  • The U.S. Economy is Unsustainable – YouTube

    The U.S. Economy is Unsustainable – YouTube:

    David Walker…. Former President of the Government Accounting Office. This was in 2008, before we did all the stimulus spending to bump us out of the recession.

    … ONLY This quarter, the US debt exceeded the US economy. US Economy is now (back) up to $15+T; The US Debt is now up above that!:-(

    Check out the US Debt Clock. It’s hard to keep up with since the numbers are changing so fast, but $15.2T is the debt and $15.1 is the GDP.

    Wanna hear what Fox news has to say about this, go to Fox. But their giving Obama too much credit for our debt. Virtually none of the healthcare bill has kicked in for example… and we continue to run almost 10% increases in healthcare costs. There’s been a lot of tax cuts and tax credits over the last 3 years.

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  • Why Are Americans So Ill-Informed about Climate Change?: Scientific American

    Why Are Americans So Ill-Informed about Climate Change?: Scientific American:
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    I came upon this as I was building a WikiBook on Sustainability and Climate change.
    Wikipedia has a great coverage of Climate Change and it includes this great article.
    It is interesting how we Americans are being dragged, kicking and screaming, into a low(er) carbon world. Much of the rest of the developed world has been working on lower emissions for more than a decade, since the Kyoto protocol.
    But the psychology (sociology really) is interesting…
    Painfully interesting:-(