No Patent Troll Here — Rewarding Innovation Down Under Through Patents

Slashdot's recent discussion of how an Australian research/tech transfer agency enforced its patent rights against 14 of the world's largest tech companies has what everybody should view as a happy ending: reinvestment. Australia's CSIRO has "injected $150 million from the proceeds of its wi-fi technology to the once-defunct science and [...]

By |2016-12-21T00:14:51-05:00October 24th, 2009|Blog, Innovation and IP, Patents|

A discussion about Apple’s choice of licenses used in open-sourcing Grand Central Dispatch

Caution: because I am talking about code libraries, this discussion will be technical - a combination of the worst of geek and lawyer-speak.  Sorry.I had a discussion with a colleague yesterday about Apple’s choice of licenses used for open-sourcing of its Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) concurrency framework, which is a [...]

By |2016-12-21T00:14:52-05:00September 16th, 2009|Blog, Innovation and IP, Open Standards|

Time for a Restart?

Entrepreneurial guru Guy Kawasaki pointed last week to Bill Meade's list of the ten things companies can to do re-start their IP program if it hasn't been paid much attention lately. (Not paying attention to your IP?! I won't shake a finger at you and say, "Tsk tsk"... Even if [...]

By |2016-12-21T00:14:52-05:00August 24th, 2009|Blog, Innovation and IP|
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