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and international patent and trademark procurement - IP Litigation - IP Licenses and Agreements: distribution, development, joint venture - Intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Not only that, but you'll connect with a nationwide community of BizSpark Network Partners, including incubators and investors.

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JumpStartFund Takes On Crowdfunding, Advice For Research Startups

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JumpStartFund , which is based in El Segundo, opened up its service this morning to help use the wisdom of the crowd to move ideas, patents, and research from individuals, federal research labs, universities, and research organizations to the market. The site combines the crowd-voting aspect with crowd-funding elements, as well. READ MORE>>.

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Tapping The Power Of The Crowd For Ideas, Advice and Funding, with JumpStartFund

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Dirk Ahlborn: We are coming out of the nonprofit incubator, the Girvan Institute of Technology, which has been around since 2002, and is funded by NASA Ames. It is one of the older incubators in Los Angeles, even though not a lot of people know about it. That gives us access to the patents from those federal labs and universities have.

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What Mattered in 2012: Aber Whitcomb, io/LA

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Aber Whitcomb is a partner at startup co-working and incubation community io/LA , CTO of SGN , and former co-founder and CTO of MySpace. We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms.

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TYLT Labs' New Seed Fund And The Promise Of Silicon Beach

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Anyone can talk a good game, and put together a proforma that looks great, and there are lots of great looking ideas, and people can even all have filed a provisional patent. We''re now trying to tie into the local universities, incubators, and other centers of entrepreneurship. We''re really looking for that first and foremost.

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Makers Making The Sci-Fi Tricorder A Reality With VOXearch

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Mann had long sold the company and patents, but one of their providers which had been installing them surgically, and had started installing parts from China. This is really also funded because of Mike and my other project, the 101 incubator. Mann implantable device area. How are you funding this project?

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator. What we have done for the user, is used a patent pending algorithm to sift through north of a million data points a day, and thousands of conversations per second, to help organize and cluster highlights.

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