Think is isn’t possible? Intellectual Property (IP) is a force that drives innovative product and service development and deployment. Big companies protect their positions through strategic use of their patent portfolio. Some companies maintain a bank of patents and make money solely by attacking other companies unlicensed use of their portfolio. At HP Labs, as…
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Ink, Digital Cameras and the Innovators Dilemma
This is a story of unadulterated profit-seeking and how that mentality threatens to cloud your thinking in the corporate world. When I was at HP Laboratories, my colleagues and I were constantly busy, toiling away at any number of technologies. Many of those technologies were based upon semiconductor manufacturing processes and Integrated circuit design that would eventually…
From Chemistry to Clouds 