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Irvine Firm Goes On Patent Offensive

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Irvine-based Uniloc USA , a firm which develops anti-fraud technology based on physical device recognition, said this morning that it has filed a patent infringement suit against Sony America, McAfee, Activision, Quark, Aspyr Media, and Borland Software. Tags: uniloc patent infringement physical security fraud legal.

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InTouch Technologies Settles Patent Suit

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Santa Barbara-based InTouch Technologies , which develops robotic telepresence sysetms for the health care industry, revealed this morning that it has settled a legal dispute with HeadThere Inc. over the firm's patents. patents, for products to be sold outside the United States.

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Netlist Raises $15M

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Irvine-based Netlist , a publicly listed developer of memory for the cloud computing and storage market, announced Thursday that it has raised $15M in credit financing. According to Netlist, it will use the new funding to support ongoing development of its product and patent portfolio. READ MORE>>.

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6 Lessons Most Entrepreneurs Only Learn On The Street

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You alone will never find enough hours in a day to keep with all the challenges of sales, support, and scaling the business, in addition to developing and delivering your solution. Your leadership skills do not develop without effort. Planning for the future must be a regular activity, not just an early-stage or once-a-year event.

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OnGreen Snags Cleantech Open's Steeb

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Los Angeles-based OnGreen , the online green business marketplace headed by Nikhil Jain, said Wednesday that it has snagged Erik Steeb as the firm's new Vice President of Business Development. Steeb was most recently the Regional Director for Cleantech Open, and had been active in outreach to the Los Angeles clean technology industry.

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Every New Venture Needs A Product And A Business Plan

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Development schedule and checkpoints. A product plan must include the timeline and milestones involved in product research and development. Each of these activities should have associated costs and resource requirements. Provide details on the business model. Executives, marketing & sales, financial projections, and funding.

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7 Incentives For Testing Your Startup Marketing Early

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I’m not suggesting that a startup should ever disclose patent details to others before filing, but I can’t imagine why a startup would not seek visibility and feedback for their idea and solution while they could still make changes with minimal cost. You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding.

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