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DECEMBER 6, 2021

Claremeont McKenna College says it has received $40M for a new sciences center, from the W.M. Keck Foundation. The school said the new center will house its new integrated sciences program, and will be named the Robert Day Sciences Center, honoring Claremont McKenna alumnus and trustee, and W.M. Keck Foundation Chair and Chief Executive Officer. The new center will be 120,000 square feet.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

If you are just plain tired of working so hard, or your startup is not getting the traction you expected, should you shut down cleanly, or just file for bankruptcy and walk away? For those who think that bankruptcy is the easy way out, think again. Bankruptcy should always be the absolutely last resort. The “advantage” of filing for bankruptcy, of course, is that it gets creditors permanently off your back, with no continuing lawsuits, based on funds derived from selling all assets.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

Camarillo-based semiconductor developer Semtech and wireless power company Spark Connected said the two companies have settled their intellectual property dispute. Financial details of the settlement were not announced. Spark Connected had sued Semtech in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas over patent infringement, in Case No. 4:18-cv-00748.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital says that it has sold one of its portfolio companies, Provation, which provides software to the healthcare industry. Financial details of the sale were not announced. Clearlake said it investedin Provation in March of 2018, after a carve-out acquisition from Wolters Kluwer. The company also funded the acquisition of four companies for Provation, including MD-Reports, ePreop, iProcedures and endoPRO.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

NASA said on Friday that it is awarding three more, crewed astronaut missions to SpaceX. According to NASA, the addition of those three new crew flights will allow the agency to "maintain an uninterrupted U.S. capability for human access to the space station." The contract award comes as SpaceX competitor Boeing has seen more delays for its own spacecraft launch efforts.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

The California Institute of Technology has filed a new patent infringement lawsuit, after winning $1.1 billion in damages in a patent infringement lawsuit last year against Broadcom. Caltech filed a lawsuit gainst Samsung, saying that Samsung's Galaxy phones, tablets, and watches use Wi-Fi chipsets which infringe on five of its patents. Caltech also has a lawsuit pending against Microsoft, alleging Microsoft's Surface tablets, laptop, and videogame systems also infringe on those same patents.

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