Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research | Video on TED.com:
No PTA For Divisional Application | PharmaPatents: When does a 20 year patent turn out to be more than a 20 year patent… Patent Term Adjustments. Okay, so under certain situations, an extension can be requested to the 20 years that the US has for patent applications after 1995. The idea is that for such applications as pharma the long lead time in all approvals through the PTO and the FDA and more… can significantly…
On a sister site, there is a discussion by DelphiMan about the state of scenario planning today, and some new research on ways to squeeze out the genius among laypeople crowds: Scenarios Now and the Genius (hidden) within Crowd,Check it out here on ScenarioPlans.com (or DelphiPlan.com).First, a McKinsey study showed that CEOs really wished that they had done more scenario planning after the great recession. Before, really. But, now with almost 10 years in the…
Has DOW gotten its groove back? | Watch the video – Yahoo Finance: Interview on Mad Money of Andrew N. Liveris, Pres., Chair and CEO. Dow chemicals is now a innovation, high-tech company? That’s right. The olde staunching company now has two-thirds of its products in with intellectual property (IP). Proprietary products are 66% of their products. ! Was 100% petrochemicals (kindof). Here you can find out about their products: http://www.dow.com/products/ They are creating massive facilities…
Bill Gates’s Favorite Business Book – WSJ: I was at the beach over the summer and the condo had a book by Bill Gates. I started reading it and was intrigued. I thought I had read it before, but it was still very interesting. As I’m skimming through into the second chapter, it hit me like a metric ton of CO2. This book was more than 2 decades old, 1994, The Road Ahead. Knowing how…
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.
What’s up with the Stock Market(s)? Feb 8, 2021 the various stock market indexes all hit all time highs. Wow. First off, Trump was very business friendly – some would argue too business friendly (at the expense of the environment and labor. But the market has chugged happily upward based on the likelihood of a Biden win and the certainty of it after the election. Markets don’t like uncertainty, and Trump has been a wildcard…
