Brian Prentice

Today, TechCrunch columunist MG Siegler was conjecturing on the potential of a patent lawsuit between Apple and Microsoft. This, he reasoned, could result from Microsoft using their multi-touch technology in a potential Windows Mobile 7 device which was reported today by Mary-Jo Foley.
Both Apple and Microsoft have done quite a lot to advance the state [...]

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I was browsing around Amazon.com recently and I ran across an interesting book titled “Democratizing Innovation” by Eric Von Hippel. As the book description highlights Von Hippel asserts:
“Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly can develop their own new products and services. …product and service development is concentrated among “lead users,” who [...]

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Patent reform is critical to the future of our modern, globalized economy. It’s so important that we can’t waste precious time entertaining myopic shilling from self-proclaimed industry spokespeople bent on reallocating the costs of a broken system rather than fixing the system itself.
On that basis, the U.S. Congress – which is currently considering the Patent [...]

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