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CI and M&A It is a fact of life that many companies prefer to steal their ideas for products as opposed to license them. Every manager is looking for their edge. Add to that the massive [...]

TiO2 and China The story of Pangang Group, of China, a State Owned Enterprise in China, Walter Liew and Robert Maegerle of California ended in March with the two individuals being convicted of [...]

Venture Capital I, one of your editors, often invest my time and work with small ventures.  Start up companies with no revenue or just starting to make revenue in exchange for some deeply [...]

Trends In Intellectual Property Loss – A Private Survey Intellectual property loss is defined as any theft, misappropriation, or inadvertent disclosure of an organization’s intellectual [...]

Some good patent search tools when doing patent research or looking for help with the research. Resources The US Patent and Trademark Office (www.uspto.gov/) has an excellent pubic interface.  [...]

I have been reading a series of stories in the Wall Street Journal, Tech Republic, Business Week, Wired etc.. about what a horrible world it is as people are working with Patent Trolls to enforce [...]

We all get it, innovate or die.   More acutely we must craft profitable innovations that are unique where above average margins can be harvested, at least for a bit of time. The idea of Open [...]

With the recent changes to Google’s search engine, one can now do the opposite of Search Engine Optimization called Negative Search Engine Optimization.   Through leveraging certain tactics found [...]

Jules Trocchi, CEO Security Direction International Ltd. The eminent 20th century psychologist Abraham Maslow placed security next in line after physiological drives in his famous hierarchy of [...]

Researchers in Grenoble have had an original idea to prevent your Wi-Fi network from being hacked, you can use wallpaper that block your Wi-Fi signal from leaving the apartment and thus keeping [...]