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JULY 22, 2010

Masimo had sued Hygia in April of 2009 over Hygia's reprocessing of its sensors, and also had later claimed patent and trademark infringement, unfair competition, false designation of origin, and injury to business reputation in its suit. Tags: masimo medical device pulse oximetry hygia legal lawsuit patent.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Emulex said the suit alleges that Broadcom has acted in an anticompetitive manner in violation of federal antitrust laws, as well as made defamatory statements and engaged in acts of unfair competition in violation of seven separate statutes. Tags: emulex broadcom legal lawsuit patent hardawre.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

I decided we''d patent a sliding mechanism on our Bluetooth, and use 3D printers to take pictures that people send to us, and my company will design a Bluetooth based on their picture, on our 3D printer. What''s your competitive advantage against others in the headset/accessories market? Our competitive advantage is fashion.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

What we bring to the table is competitive analytics, where we consider your security adversary, and figure how they are trying to break your system, under different scenarios, and recommend a plan which optimizes your security strategy. We''re now scaling it up, and we''ve also filed seven patents in that process.

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JUNE 19, 2014

We did get a patent on our first, snap-on camera mount, but maybe if we had put a little more resources and time into solidifying those patents, so they were not easily worked around would have been good. It''s prevented outside competition from coming in, and prevented anyone from taking up any decent market share from us.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Jonathan Simkin: I was actually in high school when I decided I'd either start a company when I graduated, or go into patent law. Back to the service itself-- you've got lots of competition in the space, how are you going to get above that noise? Jonathan Simkin: Certainly, it is extremely competitive.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

We worked on Beatshare at Chapman, where there was a business plan competition, which we won. From there, we went on to a national competition, California Dreamin, which had over 200 entrants from multiple universities, with undergrad, graduate, and postgraduates from all around the country for three days, and we got second place.

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MARCH 27, 2015

There is already lots of competition in the streaming music area, what do you think you can add to that area? UrRadio also gives you the technology to power your own radio station, and also includes some patented ways to monetize your channel that are not found elsewhere. That''s what you can do with urRadio.

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JULY 31, 2013

However, if you''re successful, the payout is quite large, and there''s a little bit less competition in the space. That said, we have differentiated technology, 38 patents, of which 15 have been granted, a unique positoin, unique technology set, which really provides a huge advantage.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

He saw that the industry was being disrupted globally, and actually started with the idea of building a new company that could be scalable, and flexible, and offer delivery of that content at competitive pricing. For the first three years, it was all about research and development, building IP and patents and so forth.

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AUGUST 18, 2009

About a year later, we recognized that it was very important to also have the patent, and Dina joined us. That makes solar panels as a product not competitive at all, if you removed government subsidies. Woolas Hsieh: We certainly feel that flexible solar cells, particularly our plastic solar cells, are very competitive.

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MARCH 31, 2014

Whether that''s for competitive analysis or market analysis, our product is basically able to monitor--on a very large scale--things that are important to your particular company. We''re looking for lighting bolts in time which are important. It''s designed for business people. That''s the unique nature of this technology.

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AUGUST 4, 2015

We have thirteen patents associated with the Ice bear. I think that's really established energy storage as a competitive, reliable resource for utilities. That's the box air conditioners you see on big box retailers, college campuses, strip malls, and a wide variety of other buildings.

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APRIL 29, 2014

A number of teams have recently been looking to turn that vision into reality, as a result of the Qualcomm Tricorder Prize , a $10M competition being run by the X Prize Foundation to create a real life Tricorder. That''s essentially how the Tricoder competition was formed--it''s time for this to happen. Mann implantable device area.

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

One problem with other avatar technology, is that in most competitive cases what people are doing is using a standard head model and trying to apply a face to that model. Unlike most web media firms, we've got a real, protectable IP, based on serious computer science, three patents, and five more pending.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition. About 100 teams participated in that competition, and 10 teams were selected to be part of USC''s Viterbi Startup Garage program. How did Tilofy come about?

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We've also had great advances in engaging the trust of the commercial community, with patented advances like automatic scoring of our algorithms, which predicts the quality of translations based on a one-through-five scale. Originally, you had a lot of government customers, and were just starting out with a few commercial customers.

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JUNE 23, 2009

There is lots of competition from the big companies, legal threats in the industry for chip startups to navigate today, how are you handling that? So there's no legal issues for us, and if they don't infringe on our patents, there's no worry for them. Combined between the two of us, we've been at this for 54 years.

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JUNE 25, 2009

Nobody in our competitive space can do all of those things, because they simply don't control their own destiny, because they don't own their own technology. We've got patents on technology that helps save bandwidth utilized for VoIP calls and particularly for video.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

At GRP, we don't care about patents--they're nice to have, but not required--but we're looking for defensible IP in an area with an interesting, and big, idea. It's also good to talk somewhat about the competition, and why this ideas is different from the others. Rick Smith: I would say, at a slightly higher level, is passion.

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