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Steering Minorities Toward Patent Law
… American lawyers practicing patent law . During his flight from ..... establish an introductory patent course at the school’s ..... engineers at Howard to patent law ," Sharma says. He hopes ..... Henderson also sponsors a patents and technology seminar …
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Inside Workday’s S-1
… and sales and marketing, or roughly $132.3 million in fiscal 2012. To date, Workday has received four patents and has 22 patent applications pending. Employees: Workday's workforce has more than quadrupled in the past six years, from …
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Brighter Ideas
… code printers and radio-frequency-identification printing systems, has a special banquet for employees who have earned patents in a particular year. The company also offers cash awards, and honorees receive certificates or plaques and are recognized …
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U.S. Health Care Spending Sees Modest Increases
… 9 percent in 2011, are expected to rise 2.9 percent in 2012 and 2.4 percent in 2013 as several top-selling drugs lose patent protection and consumers shift to less expensive generic versions, according to CMS. Meanwhile, national health care expenditures …
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Employment Law Blog Carnival: The 007 Edition
… made. I hate small portions of anything, particularly when they taste bad. This drink's my own invention. I'm going to patent it when I think of a good name." Ian Flemming, Casino Royale, Ch. 7 (1952). This month marks the 50th anniversary of …
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Two Approaches to Employee Blogs
… posting comments about patent enforcement companies, which buy patents and then file infringement ..... Richardson, after the Patent Troll Tracker intimated ..... collecting and selling patents which were later purchased by " patent trolls" who eventually …
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Employers Accelerate Health Care Cost-Shifting
… climbing even more is the upcoming loss of patent protection for costly brand-name drugs, allowing ..... best-selling prescription drugâ go off- patent . Another $28 billion in drugs go off- patent in 2012, according to Pricewaterhouse. In …
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Teleworking Has Come a Long Way for Workers
… worked with scores of federal agencies to identify cost savings through teleworking. One of the best examples was the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which Auten says documented more than $19 million in savings since moving its employees to a telework …
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Retiring Minds Want to Know: Technology Helps Assess Retirement Benefits
… based firm, offers a 401(k) record-keeping software system designed to account for ETFs. The company received a U.S. patent for its system in late 2011. Outsourcing firm Ceridian uses Invest n Retire's services, and Plein's firm is in talks with …
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Workforce Impact At-a-Glance
… based applications have changed the ways that communities, businesses and employees communicate. The growth in social network patent applications has grown from barely a dozen in 2003 to about 1,200 in 2010. LinkedIn is considered a valuable business tool for …
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Health Care Cost Hikes Increasing, Expected to Continue
… Prescription drug trends have moderated over recent years because of the shift to generics and some blockbuster drugs coming off patent ," said Gary Stanford, a Dallas-based principal and actuary at Aon Hewitt, and one of the survey's authors. "Those …
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What Works My Dad's Legacy
… can see them yourself at the Patent Office’s Web site. There ..... August 22, 1961. There’s Patent No. 3,046,635, Lamp ..... inventor’s copies” of these patents are now tucked ..... theones who secured their first patents thanks to him. I’ve been …
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On the Contrary: Creativity 101
… little contraptions. He's earned 22 patents , four more are pending, andproduct royalties ..... how it works," he says, "because the patent 'snot yet filed." Clearly, this isn ..... asconfidential-disclosure agreements and patent applications. Clearly, this isn't …
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Negotiating the Departure of an Employee
… or which has not been formally protected as a trade secret, patent or copyright. Also, what happens to the inventions or improvements ..... the theft of his trade secrets, or the infringement of his patents or copyrights. The Employee s Rights and Duties Perhaps the …
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Motivating Creative Employees Calls for New Strategies
… pharmaceutical corporation develops and patents a successful new drug that produces $100 ..... to $175,000 in bonuses for a single patent , although these large awards are ..... gala. Here, employees who've acquired patents , copyrights or awards from the Federal …
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The Lingo of Trade Secrets
… after his or her employment, or suffer damages as specified. Patent : A legal right or privilege that gives an inventor the exclusive ..... use or sell an invention for a specified period of time. Patents can be obtained on products, but often on processes as well …
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Eli Lilly Announces Plans to Restructure, Cut 4,500 Jobs
… reform, generic competition and expiring patents among reasons for the reorganization. Among Eli Lillyâ s top products, compound patents for its pancreatic cancer drug Gemzar ..... promoting Zyprexa for treatment of dementia. Patents also expire on Eli drugs for depression …
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Washington Tapping Into Telework for More Flexibility
… adviser for telework with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, which has ..... working at home,” she says. The U.S. patent office boasts a productivity jump of ..... Telecommuting already has saved the U.S. patent office some $11 million in office space …
