Like many others, I owe a lot to Steve Jobs. Some of the designs and intellectual property management strategies he pioneered at Apple were, and remain, the subject of my research and teaching. His work, along with that of the many talented people at Apple, continue to inspire me. The New York Times has a [...]
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Steve Jobs: Creator and Intellectual Property Strategist
October 6, 2011Letter or Spirit?
January 6, 2011Business Insider posted a story recently about Facebook and the news the company has made working with Goldman Sachs to obtain significant capital investment without going public. The story boils down to Facebook wanting to trade stock for a capital infusion. There is no shortage of people wanting to invest in Facebook stock. A thorny [...]
Will a Green Patent Exchange Take Root?
December 7, 2010Silicon Valley is officially out of the dumps. Leading the way into our brave new world is clean tech. What is clean tech? The term is broad, and includes any type of novel technology that reduces our carbon footprint, by utilizing renewable energy or lessening the harmful impacts of carbon-based energy sources. I met clean [...]
Independent Designers: Here’s a Powerful Tool to Combat Knock-Offs
June 19, 2010I’m always troubled when I hear stories about independent designers who are ripped off by knock-off artists, large retail chains and unscrupulous exporters who take advantage of low-cost manufacturing costs to catch a free ride from a designer’s work. Reporter Christina Binkley wrote an interesting article on this very topic in The Wall Street Journal [...]
Top 10 Places for Tech Jobs…And Their Patents
September 17, 2009U.S. News and World Report lists the Top Ten Places for Tech Jobs. The list includes: Atlanta, Boston, Houston, Huntsville, New Yok, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington. It’s an interesting list, and I thought I would do a patent search for inventors based out of these cities. Here are the results I obtained [...]
Back to School
September 1, 2009Attention student innovators. If you have had a revelation for a product that would make dorm life better, visit this site to enter a contest: Students of Invention Contest Just think “lava lamp”.
To the Folks at Twitter: Use Trademarks to Monetize Your Traffic
June 13, 2009I just read an article on a packaging blog that mentions how companies are adding their Twitter ID on product packaging. I agree with the article’s conclusion that it’s a smart marketing move that allows a company using this strategy to stay in touch with customers. Pepsi, for example, added “twitter.com/pepsiraw” to its Pepsi Raw [...]
Recession is the Perfect Time to Innovate
May 22, 2009“Recessions signal end of an era; out goes the old way of doing things and room is made for the entrepreneurs to come with new innovative ideas.” This is according to Kanwal Rekhi, a legendary Silicon Valley entrepreneur and graduate of Michigan Technological University’s electrical engineering program. Dr. Rekhi made this intriguing statement in an [...]
