The role played in the economy
by small inventors — «Edison, Hewlett and Packard, Jobs and Wozniak» as the authors put it — is a matter of debate among economists, so for that reason, and despite the undoubted efficiencies consequent upon the change in the system, it's unclear whether a net benefit will result.
Not exact matches
It was also then that some of the biggest marketers succeeded with a business model that may still hold about an 80 percent share of the DRTV market: Find products created
by a would - be Edison somewhere in America, market them on DRTV, give a
small royalty cut to the
inventor, and share the risk of a capricious DRTV audience across your product portfolio.
This fundamental innovation was created during a remarkably short period of time — most of it between the late 1870s and the beginning of the 20th century —
by a surprisingly
small number of
inventors, engineers and scientists.
On this list, you'll find inventions
by moms that begin to teach kids independence, gear that saves time and money, and products that help streamline a mom's busy day — no
small feat, but these
inventors are moms who just get it: they get what moms and kids need, because they live that Mom Life every day themselves.
As a young
inventor in Massachusetts, he'd been fascinated
by old - style bateaux, fur - trading boats with shallow drafts for negotiating
small rivers and flat bottoms to provide stability when heavily laden with pelts.
Genachowski also indicated that his support for the order was influenced in no
small way
by the position of Web
inventor Tim Berners - Lee.
In 1965, together with Jo Ann Bernofsky and Richard Kallweit, they bought a
small piece of land in southern Colorado, and were soon joined
by other artists, writers and
inventors.
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By using our entrepreneurial spirit to repurpose pollution into ink, the lifeblood of creativity, we're giving creative people the tools to enhance their streets, and empowering
inventors like Anirudh to take
small but impactful actions against air pollution.»
Things improve with solo presentations of works
by Gego, Martin Puryear and Mr. Hammons — his art is footnoted
by a
small 1938 wall piece made from found materials
by Kurt Schwitters, one of the
inventors of assemblage.
Top tier ranked
by all leading IP and legal directories, clients range from large, multinational corporations to
small and medium sized businesses and from universities, spin - outs and start - ups to private
inventors.
Using data on all patents granted
by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office and the US Patent and Trademark Office, we find a significant drop in the fraction of patents granted to
small inventors in Canada coincident with the implementation of first ‐ to ‐ file.
«Adam has extensive practical experience building teams and shipping products as shown
by his track record at organizations large and
small, such as Microsoft, PI, EMC, and VMware, this is on top of having an extraordinarily deep technical background in all aspects of cryptography and being the
inventor of Hashcash, one of the core concepts used in Bitcoin.»
He may be best known for his invention of Hashcash, which is a proof - of - work system used to limit email spam and denial - of - service attacks and that is used in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as part of the mining algorithm Paul Maritz, Chairman, Pivotal, and former CEO of VMware and senior executive with a multitude of others, had this to say about Back: «Adam has extensive practical experience building teams and shipping products as shown
by his track record at organizations large and
small, such as Microsoft, PI, EMC, and VMware, this is on top of having an extraordinarily deep technical background in all aspects of cryptography and being the
inventor of Hashcash, one of the core concepts used in Bitcoin.»
For years the
small inventor has been victimized
by unscrupulous large entities stealing inventions telling the
inventor to go sue in court.
A better question is how to stop the real problem: infringement
by large corporations who muscle their financial power in the legal system, which obliviates
small inventors, which is the very reason Intellectual Ventures came to be so they could protect
inventors.
My authority on the matter: I am a
small inventor with IP, and I have a right to protect my inventions from being stolen
by bigger fish while I actualize and bring them to the market.
Is that what you'd call the massive lobbying effort that is under way (
by Google, Cisco, etc.) to convince our lawmakers that patent enforcement
by an
inventor /
small business is «troll» behavior?
Small entities and
inventors have been given far too little voice on this bill when one considers that they rely far more heavily on the patent system than do large firms who can control their markets
by their size alone.
Then maybe we can get some sense back in the patent system with injunctions fully enforceable on all infringers
by all
inventors, large and
small.
She noted that only a
small portion of the cost imposed
by patent trolls ever finds its way back to
inventors.
To make their case for why they need easier access to bigger money awards, the patent owners tell stories about
small inventors who have their inventions ripped off
by big companies who use all sorts of tricks to avoid paying the
inventors on their patents.