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Acquiring Innovation, Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Jeffrey A. Maine

Articles

In recent years, the innovation market has witnessed a new business model involving companies that are mere patent holding shells and not operating entities. They have no customers or products to offer, but they do have an aggressive tactic of using patent portfolios to threaten other operating companies with potential infringement litigation. The strategy is executed with the end goal of extracting handsome settlements. Acquisitions of patents for offensive use have become a major concern to operating companies because such acquisitions pose the threats of patent injunction, interrupting the business and crippling further innovation.

While many operating companies today know …

Antitrust And Trade Secrets: The U.S. And The Eu Approach, Katarzyna A. Czapracka

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Legal And Policy Aspects Of Internet Number Resources, Stephen M. Ryan, Raymond A. Plzak, John Curran

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Laws Of Nature And The Business Of Biotechnology, Phillip Mcgarrigle, Vern Norviel

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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A Linguistic Look At Trademark Dilution, Ronald R. Butters

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Considering The Who, What, When, Where And How Of Measuring Dilution, Jacob Jacoby

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Outsource Software Development And Open Source: Coming Of Age In The 2000s, Heather Meeker

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Governing Cyberspace: Law, David G. Post

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Patents: Hiding From History, Stephen M. Mcjohn

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Patentability Of Human-Animal Chimeras, Ryan Hagglund

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Nuisance-Value Patent Suits: An Economic Model And Proposal, Ranganath Sudarshan

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Debugging Software Patents: Increasing Innovation And Reducing Uncertainty In The Judicial Reform Of Software Patent Law, Robert E. Thomas

Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal

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Summer 2008

University of Richmond Magazine

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Gvsu Undergraduate And Graduate Catalog, 2008-2009, Grand Valley State University

Course Catalogs, 1963 - Current

Grand Valley State University 2008-2009 undergraduate and/or graduate course catalog published annually to provide students with information and guidance for enrollment.

Detection Of Kpc-2 In A Clinical Isolate Of Proteus Mirabilis And First Reported Description Of Carbapenemase Resistance Caused By A Kpc Β-Lactamase In P. Mirabilis, Robert J. Tibbetts, Jonathan G. Frye, Jonas Marschall, David K. Warren, W. Michael Dunne, Jr.

Open Access Publications

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The Effects Of Fertilizers And Mulberry (Morus Alba L. ) Variety On Cocoon And Silk Quality In Kenya, Marion N. Gathumbi

All Master’s Theses

The study was carried out in two sites already with existing mulberry trees comprising three varieties, Kanva , Noi (Thailand), and Embu (local variety). The main objective of the study was to determine the effect of soil fertility and better mulberry varieties (grown locally) on cocoon and silk quality. The study compared the growth and yield performance of the three mulberry varieties being used by farrriers in silkworm rearing. It also involved comparisons of silk production using the three varieties and their quality response due to fertilizer (NPK) and manure treatments. These treatments were applied in 2 sites, ICIPE Farm …

Aku-Nama : Winter 2008, Volume 1, Issue 2, Aga Khan University Alumni Association

The Aga Khan University Newsletter and Magazine for Alumni (AKU-NAMA)

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The Failed Law Of Latin America, Jorge L. Esquirol

Faculty Publications

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Unf Journal Winter 2008, University Of North Florida

UNF Journal

A university periodical for alumni and friends of the University of North Florida.

Dimensions Of Mentoring Relationships In The Workplace: A Holistic Perspective, Miriam Grace-Rowland

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

This was an exploratory study to understand the lived experience of those involved in mentoring relationships within a formal mentoring program in a corporate context. The researcher looked for rich detail about the nature of the relationship from the perspective of the mentor and mentee. To achieve a holistic perspective, the experience of organizational managers was deliberately included in the research. Exploration of this triadic relationship of mentor, mentee, and organizational manager has been neglected in the empirical literature. An exploration of where meaning intersected and diverged among the triad relationship members gave depth to the dimensional frame. Findings suggested …

Evaluating U.S. Federal Marine Protected Areas Programs: A Comparative Analysis And Conceptual Framework, Rosemarie Ann Bradley

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

Federal area-based marine protection and management in the United States is overseen by the National Marine Sanctuary Program, the National Estuarine Research Reserve System, the National Wildlife Refuge System, the National Park Service, and the National Marine Fisheries Service. Each agency and program represents a different approach to managing the oceans. Currently, no federal agency or program is responsible for evaluating the overall effectiveness of these programs. Evaluation is needed to determine whether programs are achieving their management objectives and conservation goals. Although evaluation protocols are legislatively mandated, implementation is inconsistent across programs.

Federal agencies have been criticized for failing …

Who Owns Ethnography? : The Practitioners Of Contemporary Business Ethnography, Mary Honodel Mccuistion

Master's Theses

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Comparing Methodologies That Correlate Property Values And Airport Noise, Christian Valdes

Master's Theses

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Investigation Of Laser Peening Effects On Hydrogen Charged Stainless Steels, Tania M. Zaleski

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Modeling And Noise Parameter Extraction Of Nano-Wire Transistors, Pallavi Deshmukh

Master's Theses

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Investigation Of Laser Peening Effects On Hydrogen Charged Stainless Steels, Tania M. Zaleski

Master's Theses

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Which: A Stochastic Best-First Search Learner., Zachery A. Milton

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Rule-based learners search a version space of combinations of features. Starting at “false”, features can be added using disjunctions, conjunctions and negations which can combine to some top-most “true” node that covers all possible examples. A complete search of all possible combinations can be too slow, due to the size of the space, or too error prone, due to noise in the space. When complete search fails, stochastic search may be a useful alternative. For example, the TAR3 “treatment learner” is a stochastic rule learner that leaps around random parts of the version space. TAR favors the construction of tiny …

Cell Surface Expression Of The Vaccinia Virus Complement Control Protein Is Mediated By Interaction With The Viral A56 Protein And Protects Infected Cells From Complement Attack, N. M. Girgis, Brian Dehaven

Biology Faculty Scholarship

The vaccinia virus (VACV) complement control protein (VCP) is the major protein secreted from VACV-infected cells. It has been reported that VCP binds to the surfaces of uninfected cells by interacting with heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs). In this study, we show that VCP is also expressed on the surfaces of infected cells and demonstrate that surface localization occurs independently of HSPGs. Since VCP does not contain a transmembrane domain, we hypothesized that VCP interacts with a membrane protein that localizes to the infected-cell surface. We show that the VACV A56 membrane protein is necessary for the cell surface expression of …

Motivational Factors Of Seasonal Volunteers: A Study Of The Student Conservation Association, Cory J. Roegner

Graduate Research Papers

The use and efficacy of motivational factors in attracting and retaining employees has become an increasingly important concern within the realm of leisure-service management. Authors of leading text on managing leisure-service organizations have affirmed this dilemma, stating that more research is needed on how to attract, retain, supervise, and motivate employees (Henderson & Bialeschki, 1993; Hoff, Ellis & Crossley, 1988). In recent decades, this need has become particularly true with respect to the motives of seasonal and part-time volunteers (DeGraaf & Edginton, 1992). The field of outdoor recreation/resource management is of no exception. Thus, the purpose of this study was …

Openline Newsletter, January 2008, Civil Service Council

OpenLine Newsletter

A monthly newsletter for Civil Service employees, Volume XXXII, Number 7, January 2008.