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Copyrights and Design Patents Filling the Gaps in Your IP Strategyand#8232; and#8232;

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 -- CommNexus Presents: Copyrights and Design Patents Filling the Gaps in Your IP Strategyand#8232; and#8232; Join the Intellectual Property SIG on for an unusual opportunity to hear from experts in lesser understood IP areas. See [link] (more).

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Introduction to IP

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, April 8, 2010 -- Introduction to IP. Anyone involved in innovation--from gene therapy treatments to surfboard designs--needs to know what their IP is and how to protect it. An understanding of intellectual property is essential to companies, universities, entrepreneurs, researchers and inventors. See [link] (more).

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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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No Stairway (Infringement) and the Importance of Shared Design Tools in Innovation

Xconomy

But as I explain in a longer blog post , what is copied is a common motif in song composition, effectively a design tool. No one can claim copyright to these things because they have been around for a long time and are now “generic” parts or common design tools, respectively. To me, a chord progression is an abstract music design tool.

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Maine’s Largest Hospital Launches Internal Health Tech Accelerator

Tech.Co

“Front-line staff are uniquely positioned to articulate clinically relevant needs and to articulate the design-based principles that can make our healthcare smarter and more human,” Monti 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.”.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

Here is where having Marc Berte and a team out of MIT who have designed systems like this for years gave one confidence we could do something others couldn’t copy and at price points that could make us market leaders over night. Did anybody hold patents that would prevent us from using this technology? Were they ambitious?