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Berkonomics
OCTOBER 5, 2023
First, think about your time as money! How about young or pre-revenue companies? Yes, there were other issues such as a protracted patent rights fight that drained cash, but the largest problem, inefficient use of R&D time burning fixed overhead, led to the demise of the company. We’ll get to my heartbreak in a minute.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 14, 2018
Santa Monica-based Ring has just received a patent on adding facial recognition to its cameras--allowing some future version of the camera to automtically call police on a "suspicious" subject--in a move that has raised alarms among privacy and social advocates.
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socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
Congress recently passed some major changes to federal patent law. No industry will be untouched by patent reform. Up until now, the American patent system differed from the rest of the world in that U.S. patents were generally granted to those who invented first. The patent overhaul will change the U.S.
socalTECH
JULY 22, 2014
Los Angeles-based online e-commerce retailer Newegg is trumpeting a new patent victory, saying that a "notorious troll" has been ordered to pay the company''s cost in a patent ruling. 6,128,415, a patent which covered the idea of tagging information about an image. READ MORE>>.
Berkonomics
DECEMBER 9, 2021
So, I was surprised and excited when one of these verbal fishing expeditions during a lunch brought up a technology the company had patented years before and forgotten. It wasn’t about paying for service we now expect at no extra cost just about everywhere, it was about a patent that covered that expansive service.
socalTECH
JULY 17, 2012
Irvine-based VIZIO , the maker of HDTVs, has signed another patent license deal, this time with Seiki Digital , the company said Tuesday. VIZIO has been aggressively signing up companies as licensees to its patent portfolio, which it describes as a "substantial worldwide patent portfolio directed to digital television technology."
socalTECH
DECEMBER 19, 2011
Irvine-based Broadcom Corporation reports this morning that it has scored a win in a patent infringement suit it filed against Emulex , where it had accused Emulex of infringing on two of its patents. Emulex had not issued any statements about the patent suit as of early this morning. READ MORE>>.
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