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Five Universities You Can Do Business With

From: Inc. Magazine, February 2006 |  Page: 23 By: Carl Schramm

To look in on university research is to see the subatomic structure of modern entrepreneurial capitalism. Through a process called technology transfer, academic researchers patent their work, then license it, often under a royalty agreement, to companies that ultimately bring the innovation to market. Many of the great breakthroughs of the past 30 years--in fields such as computing, telecom, the Internet, and fiber optics--were first conceived in a university lab.

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Patently Aggressive

By Jennifer Reingold, Fast Company

Forgent Networks sues software giants for patent infringement. Is it protecting inventors--or driving a stake through the heart of innovation?

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Why Johnny Can't Stop Sharing Files

By Larry Downes, CIO Insight

Copyright is effectively dead, despite the entertainment industry having won the Grokster case—or maybe even, in part, because it did. The consequences of ignoring the that change are dire.

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Patently Obvious

by Reed Hundt, Forbes 01.30.06

Here's something America should invent: an entirely new patent system that lets the market play a bigger role.

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Patent (Reform) Pending

By Larry Downes, CIO Insight

The patent system is broken, and IT is taking the brunt of the problems. Does the government have the will to fix it?

"Everybody talks about the weather," Mark Twain said, "but nobody does anything about it."
Judging from recent headlines, blogs and lawsuits, Twain's observation could apply equally to the patent system, especially for information technology.

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Mining The Vein Of Great Ideas

BusinessWeek Online

Patents can clue smart investors in to the Next Big Thing from innovative companies

In an intensely competitive global economy, the surest path to boosting a company's profit margin and stock price is a steady stream of novel products and inventive services. Think Apple Computer Inc.'s (AAPL ) iPod line and Google Inc.'s (GOOG ) lightning-fast search engine.

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