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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.

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Power-One Inks Patent Deal

socalTECH

Camarillo-based Power-One , a developer of power supplies and power conversion products, said Tuesday that it has entered into a patent license with Ericsson AB Power Modules, a developer of power products to the information and communications industry. Financial details of the patent license agreement were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Lawsuit Against Kingston Goes To Jury Trial

socalTECH

A $15M lawsuit against Fountain Valley-based Kingston Technology has gone to jury trial, with a company, Pavo Solutions LLC , seeking $15M in damages for what it says is patent infringement on a design for a swiveling USB flash memory cover.

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Emulex Gets IBM BladeCenter Design Win

socalTECH

Costa Mesa-based storage adapter firm Emulex reported this morning that the firm has scored a design win with IBM, on a adapter for IBM's BladeCenter HS22 blade servers. The firm said that it will provide its technology for a 10Gb/s Ethernet NIC for IBM, as part of the Virtual Fabric Adapter CFFh for IBM BladeCenter.

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Peregrine Semiconductor Licenses Technology To Murata

socalTECH

Peregrine said it is in the midst of a collaboration agreement with Murata, where Murata would design and manufacture RF switches and other switch-related components utilizing its technology and intellectual peroperty. Financial details of the relationship were not announced.

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A heartbreaking story about time and money.

Berkonomics

In the technology sector where I most often play, extended unplanned software development cycles account for the majority of these corporate failures. So, the company turned the ship, slowly it seemed, as R&D worked to develop an appropriate product using the base of the original design. The financial pain of unplanned delays.

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

InfoChachkie

Patents held by startups generally have a limited ability to reduce competition. The average time required to obtain a patent is 36-to-40 months, during which there is no guarantee your adVenture will ultimately receive patent protection. Even if you are granted a patent, the scope of your claims may be significantly denuded.

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