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Intellectual Property – Worthless To A Startup, Priceless To A Big Dumb Company

InfoChachkie

Intellectual Property (IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. However, to a Big Dumb Company (BDC), a startup’s IP is a thing of beauty. How can IP be worthless to a startup yet very worthwhile to a BDC? Because IP has intrinsic value, but only in the right hands. Yet, it does nothing to help you execute your business model.

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Maine’s Largest Hospital Launches Internal Health Tech Accelerator

Tech.Co

Unfortunately, health systems—and the education of people who work within health systems—are not designed to capitalize on the insights of their employees, she said. Questions of IP. I encourage people to even try and get to the relevant IP questions—that would be a sign of progress and success.”. The Program.

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socalTECH

Thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Technology.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

The practical uses for uBeam technology is limitless. Did anybody hold patents that would prevent us from using this technology? I seldom hire patent attorneys during due diligence but this was too important. We hired IP specialists to review prior art. We grilled their IP attorneys. Was it safe?

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Interview with Vanessa Dawson, The Vinetta Project

socalTECH

Vanessa Dawson: The Vinetta Project is an entreneurial ecosystem and deal flow pipeline that works with early stage, female tech founders, and helps them to access both resources and capital for their business. In New York, for example, there are a lot of very strong fintech, fashion technology and media companies.

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3 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know about Indiana Innovation

Xconomy

Warsaw, IN, is the “Orthopedic Capital of the World.”. It makes sense for Indiana institutions to encourage innovation that helps the world, since then-Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana worked with then-Senator Bob Dole of Kansas to create the bipartisan Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act, or Bayh-Dole Act, in 1980.

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

socalTECH

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. What is your VoIP service all about, and how is this different from what seems to be lots of Voice over IP service providers? Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company.

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