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Contour Energy Gets New Patent

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According to the firm, the new patent covers its production process and fluorinated multi-layered carbon nanomaterials, which are used in its batteries. patent is number 7794880, and according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark office was filed in November of 2006. READ MORE>>.

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Beats' Founders Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine In Court Over Headphone Design

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Dre and Jimmy Iovine, the founders of Beats Electronics , the onetime Santa Monica headphone-and-music-service, are in the midst of a lqsuit--and likely, a jury decision--over a lawsuit which claims Dr. Dre and Iovine owes royalties to a businessman work worked with the company back in 2005 and 2006.

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ArmorWay: Applying Computer Game Theory To Real Life Problems

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It was started at the University of Southern California in 2006-2007. The product is now being deployed, and has been used and validated by the US Air Marshal Service, the US Coast Guard, and the LA airport police. We''re now scaling it up, and we''ve also filed seven patents in that process. You can''t do it in real time.

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First Ever Startup Weekend Orange County Live!

Tech Zulu Event

He joined Miramar in 2006. He also has product strategy and business development experience in the areas of video-on-demand services and RF CMOS components. Amir is founder of Bayspring Group, an innovation think tank that specializes in defining market opportunities and the launch of new products and services to meet market needs.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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I then went back to Europe to create a company called Fruugo, which was a big startup back in the day, in 2006 in Europe. We have a couple of different ideas in the pipeline, and have filed patents in our unique way of showing advertising on a very small screen. Nils Forsblom: Back in 2004, I met a girl when I was here on vacation.

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

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It was funded in 2006 with about $8M in investments, and we were fortunate to have the benefit of that investment in the development of the intellectual property. We also assumed over 50 pending patents, from ten different patent families. C can you talk about how you ended up at Confident Technologies?

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

I then went to Pepperdine University School of Law and graduated in 2006 with a Certificate from the Geoffrey H. It also helps if there is a reason that other people can’t compete with you, either because of some trade secret or patent. I have always been entrepreneurial and business focused. and online business networking ?

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