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The Future of America’s Innovation Economy- Progress and Challenges at the USPTO

David Teten

It has funding, change in fees to make them more rational, movement to make US into compliance with global patent standards (get rid of best mode , and move to ‘first to file’). If we move us to global standards that creates more jobs. Kappos: We’ve hired Dr. Stewart Tate, a tenured Georgia Tech econ professor.

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The Texas Startup Manifesto

Austin Startup

Partnerships with innovative global companies in major industry verticals provide unique opportunities for customer validation, pilot programs and strategic investment. Texas is part of a global ecosystem No city lives in isolation anymore. Digital and technology startups are global from day one. Department of Defense.

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Austin: Airbnb “Super City” and Hotspot For Emerging Boutique STR Purveyors

Austin Startup

While it may come as a surprise to locals and visitors alike, the short-term-rental (STR) unicorn considers Austin to be one of its 24 global “super cities” : destinations that routinely generate the company’s largest revenues, and are viewed as having the strongest prospects for future growth.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

Ascenders and are the vertical strokes which rise above the body of a character or x-height. Serifs are used to guide the horizontal “flow” of the eyes; The lack of serifs is said to contribute to a vertical stress in sans serifs, which is supposed to compete with the horizontal flow of reading ( De Lange et al.,