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Entrepreneur November 2003 Don Debelak |
The Big Picture The right licensing agreement can be the missing piece of the big-business puzzle. |
AskMen.com March 19, 2003 Steve Richer |
How To: Patent An Invention Investors will not do business with you until you have that precious little number that guarantees that you own the rights to the invention. Read on to see how you can obtain a patent. |
Entrepreneur September 2003 Don Debelak |
Send in the Clones Will competitors' knockoffs destroy your products' edge? Not if you don't let them. |
Entrepreneur October 2003 Don Debelak |
Wise Up! When it comes to inventing a successful product, experience may be your best asset. |
IndustryWeek October 1, 2007 Jill Jusko |
Patent Protection Your valuable intellectual property requires keen oversight. To help keep it safe, consider these actions. |
CIO February 15, 2003 Geoffrey James |
Patent Office Stops Shuffling Paper The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced in December the latest stage in its two-year, $40 million project to make accessible via the Web all the documents that accompany the patent applications process by Oct. 1, 2004. |
Entrepreneur March 2008 Nichole L. Torres |
Tool Time You may have a brilliant invention, but it doesn't mean anything if you can't get it off the ground. These companies can help. |
CIO January 1, 2002 Tom Field |
How to Get In and Out of an Outsourcing Deal How to structure IT outsourcing deals. |
Food Processing January 2009 Dave Fusaro |
Collective Wisdom on Outsourcing Our joint survey on contracting-out production, R&D and other functions finds a lot of mixed feelings. |
Entrepreneur December 2003 Don Debelak |
Warm Reception How you can revolutionize a stagnant product on a limited budget and still win over your target market |
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2012 Schaeffer & Dahlberg |
Money for Nothing, Patents for Free? State tech transfer laws giving universities automatic ownership of employees' inventions represent a threat to pharma partnerships. |
Popular Mechanics December 9, 2009 Erik Sofge |
Inventors Slam Patent Reform Effort Some of America's most prolific inventors say the changes in patent law could seriously impair the culture of innovation that has long driven prosperity in this country. |
Information Today September 15, 2011 George H. Pike |
Congress Enacts Patent Reform Legislation In what is being described as the most substantial overhaul of U.S. patent law in nearly 60 years, Congress passed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, patent reform legislation that has been years in the making. |
Inc. July 24, 2002 Jennifer A. Redmond |
Strategic Patenting What to consider when you're filing a patent and strategic decisions you'll need to make. |
Entrepreneur May 2003 Joshua Kurlantzick |
Losing the Race Is the Patent Office's slowness putting U.S. innovation at risk? |
CIO May 15, 2001 Ruffin Veal III |
Private Lessons for the Public Sector Public Sector IT Outsourcing... Secrets of Installation Success... |
InternetNews March 23, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
IP Pros Fight to Save Patent Library Patent professionals and entrepreneurs are fighting to save the Sunnyvale Center for Innovation, Invention & Ideas, a patent library they say is an invaluable tool. |
CIO December 1, 2000 Erik K. Clemons |
The Build/Buy Battle Balancing the risks and rewards of information service outsourcing... |
AskMen.com Aaron Broverman |
How To: Protect An Idea While the majority of ideas have already been thought of, if yours is unique, here are some tips to protect them and reap the benefits. |
Entrepreneur April 2004 Don Debelak |
Sky's the Limit Think your product has limited appeal? It may have more potential than you know. |
Entrepreneur December 2004 Don Debelak |
Taking License For inventors who don't have the time or the money to introduce their product on their own, entering into a licensing agreement is an obvious solution. But how do you choose the right company to license your product? |
IEEE Spectrum March 2007 Steven Rubin |
Hooray for the Patent Troll! Patent owners who are often accused of being patent trolls are acting within the law. There is nothing wrong either with them or the law. Far from stifling innovation, trolls foster it. By creating market liquidity, "patent trolls" provide a valuable service to inventors. |
CFO November 1, 2007 Avital Louria Hahn |
Innovators' Dilemma New patent laws may complicate life for inventive companies. |
National Defense November 2005 Paul F. McQuade |
Unexpected Pitfalls In Offshore Patent Preparation Clearly, there are ways to explore ethical cost savings through intellectual property outsourcing. However, contractors should be wary of service providers who promise costs savings without regulatory review. |
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Lee A. Hollaar |
Patents 2.0 There are big problems with patents, especially software patents. A new type of patent is needed -- Congress should create a new, limited protection that protects against knockoffs without overreaching. |
CIO August 1, 2003 Mark Radcliffe |
Patents: A Small Price to Pay for Progress For CIOs, the issue is not whether patents should be granted for software but whether anything can be done to improve the quality of the granted patents. The problem relates more to the examining process in the USPTO than to the appropriateness of patents for software. |
IndustryWeek August 1, 2006 |
Patents: Eleven Issues To Consider... How patent savvy are you? |
Managed Care June 2005 Ed Silverman |
It's a Small World After All: Outsourcing Makes Inroads The entire managed care industry is desperate to cut costs and is beginning to turn toward a controversial method to do just that. |
The Motley Fool May 17, 2006 Rich Duprey |
A Patently Offensive Ruling? eBay vs. MercExchange was the wrong ruling in the right case. Rather than balancing the power between "patent trolls" and innovation, this ruling could end up tipping the scales against small-time inventors who lack the resources to challenge corporations that usurp a patent's advancements. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Suhas Sreedhar |
Peer Review Starts for Software Patent Applications Hoping to curtail the orgy of tech-industry litigation, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently launched an Internet-based peer-review program whereby anyone can help to evaluate a number of software patent applications voluntarily submitted for public evaluation. |
CFO August 1, 2003 Lori Calabro |
Under One Roof Rather than invest in technology, more firms are outsourcing HR -- sometimes with one provider. |
Knowledge@Wharton |
Why High-Tech Firms Can't Afford to Ignore Patents When it comes to patents, high technology firms are, out of necessity, interdependent... |
Bio-IT World November 12, 2002 Paula Campbell Evans |
Patently More Difficult The PTO has targeted gene patents with new application guidelines. Here's what they mean and how biotech companies can satisfy them. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2006 Hugh Loebner |
Do-It-Yourself Patents Drafting a patent application is challenging, but for those with an engineering turn of mind, it's also a great deal of fun. Inventors, take note. |
Smithsonian January 2007 Eric Jaffe |
Patent Pending The Supreme Court may soon reinvent the rules for invention. At issue: whether to change the standard for considering an invention "obvious" -- and therefore ineligible for patent. |
CIO June 15, 2002 Tom Field |
You Can't Outsource City Hall The state and local government outsourcing marketplace was supposed to explode, but we're still waiting to see a spark. It's time to devise a new plan to revitalize public sector IT. |
Inc. June 6, 2002 Jennifer A. Redmond |
Directory of Inventors Groups Are you an inventor looking for advice or resources? This directory lists inventors groups across the country, organized by state. |
Entrepreneur June 2003 Don Debelak |
A Novel Dilemma To reach potential customers with an avant-garde product, you'll need to have a few tricks up your sleeve. |
Entrepreneur March 2006 Chris Penttila |
Out With It When growing your business, you know you can't do it all on your own. But could you be outsourcing too much? |
Salon.com August 27, 1999 Mark Gimein |
Jay Walker's patent mania Is the Priceline.com founder a genuine inventor -- or an intellectual-property parasite? |
CRM February 2, 2004 Ginger Conlon |
The Great Outsourcing Debate The debate has its own benefit, that of providing information and opinion on both sides that could help companies decide what's right. |
Information Today April 2005 George H. Pike |
Patenting the Internet The role of Internet patents has come into question as a number of patents have been issued to cover routine Internet practice such as media streaming. |
CIO December 1, 2002 Susan H. Cramm |
Questions on The CIO's Green Mile I need to save some money in this last quarter. What can I do without endangering the business?... What tasks should IT departments outsource, and what percentage of total IT dollars should be outsourced?... How does the service-level-agreement (SLA) process tie in to budgeting? |
CIO August 15, 2005 Ben Worthen |
Patent Law Changes Pending A law changing the basis for awarding patents from the party that can prove they invented something first to the party that applied for the patent first has wide, bipartisan support. Companies would have to act quickly to protect inventions. |
Inc. March 2004 Lora Kolodny |
Bad Patent Reform Pending patent reform could leave entrepreneurs unprotected. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2005 Harry Goldstein |
Down and Out in Ham Lake A cautionary tale to all inventors who surrender their patents in return for funding: Corliss Orville Burandt thought he was on his way to becoming a millionaire when he discovered that Honda's Intelligent VTEC engine used a technique that he believed he already patented. |