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Caltech Continues Legal Battle With Apple Over Wi-Fi Patents

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A Federal Circuit court has upheld a decision in favor of Caltech , over a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, which upheld parts of two Wi-Fi patents held by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in a continuing battle between Caltech and Apple. READ MORE>>.

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USC, Caltech License Technology To SFC Energy

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The University of Southern California , the California Insitute of Technology , and fuel cell development firm SFC Energy said late Tuesday that the three have executed on a license to a portfolio of U.S. patents for direct methanol fuel cell technology. The Caltech team included S. Surya Prakash and George Olah. Surampudi, S.

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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

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The Alliance estimates that Southern California’s tech community could be one-third the size of Silicon Valley’s by supporting or further developing the six pillars it already has for innovation to occur.

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Interview with Joe Fisher, Contour Energy

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Earlier this month, Azusa-based CFX Battery , a stealthy battery technology spinout from Caltech, announced it had raised a new round of funding worth $14.2M. It was technology developed by Panasonic in the mid 70's. How did Contour Energy spin out of Caltech? CFX stands for Carbon, Flourine, and X is the ratio between the two.

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Interview with Nikhil Jain, ObEN

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That's the idea behind the technology being developed by Pasadena-based ObEN (www.oben.me), which is led by co-founde rand CEO Nikhil Jain. Everything was developed in-house at Idealab. Third Wave Digital (Allen DeBevoise), Dream Maker Entertainment Ltd. Those are the three elements to our technology. READ MORE>>.

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How Beatshare Is Tackling Music And Messaging

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Barry Lieberman: My backgruond is about 35 years in technology, business development, and sales and marketing. I built my own company around marketing services, and have been around business development, marketing, custom service, and sales, and also on the consumer side of technology, a little bit a mix of the two. All are separate.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

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In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. After graduating from college, Bill and his brother Larry started GNP Development, Inc., In 1985, Lotus Development Corporation acquired GNP and Bill became a software entrepreneur at Lotus Development.

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