Berkonomics

JULY 16, 2015

Several times a month, I’d have lunch with one of my CEOs, and each time we’d find ourselves digging into the intellectual property developed by the company over the years, just to refresh ourselves about what the intended use was back then, and whether new developments or technologies might make these older ideas and patents relevant again.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Bayh-Dole allowed for private ownership of government funded intellectual property developed in universities while the Orphan Drug Act created incentives for developing drugs for disorders afflicting fewer than 200,000 Americans. One could argue that there’s nothing new here, as Internet distibution models started in 1995.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Oneof the worst things that can happen to a startup is to run into intellectual property problems. Since I couldnt bear the thought of programming in another language (this was 1995,remember, when "another language" meant C++) the only option seemedto be to start a new company using Lisp.

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Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2011

Many people say that they just want to be able to control who has access to their “thoughts&# and “intellectual property&#. That attitude is so 1995. For the most part when a Twitterstream is protected, it’s the stream of an individual, but I have seen a good number of companies with protected streams.

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