Constituent Company: 8×8, Inc. NASDAQ CM: EGHT Website: www.8×8.com Industry Sector: Telecommunication Services Average IPQ® Score: 136 Earlier today, 8×8 Inc announced their inclusion in the Ocean Tomo 300® Patent Index. We are pleased to see their inclusion and look forward to watching their growth going forward. 8×8, Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based pioneer in the […]
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Collaborative Innovation at NASA LAUNCH: Energy Forum
Top ten innovators from around the world presented their best shot at solving the toughest global sustainability challenges, focused on “energy”. Over a course of several days, the innovators, together with NASA, USAID, Department of State, NIKE and the Launch Council engaged in an effort to turn these projects into commercial realities. Real life stories […]
Jim Malackowski Reports on the 2011 LES Asia Pacific Regional Conference
I just finished three days attending the LES Asia Pacific Regional Conference chaired by Audrey Yap, President of LES Singapore. Attendance was strong and, although largely from the region, there was notable participation from Europe and the Americas. The theme of the conference was “Emerging IP Deals and Opportunities in Asia” and it did not […]
Molly Keelan reports on the Western M&A Forum
Nestled in the heart of Silicon Valley’s Technology Hub, Ocean Tomo’s Roy D’Souza, Elvir Causevic and Molly Keelan participated in Wednesday’s Western M&A Forum in Santa Clara, CA. A rare gathering of M&A, corporate, private equity and financial experts assembled to opine on the current and future state of M&A. Roy D’Souza, Managing Director IP […]
Elvir Causevic Reporting from the LAUNCH Energy Forum
This week I am participating in the LAUNCH: Energy Forum –wish you were here! It’s nothing short of luck to get to participate in this endeavor. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) along with fellow founding partners NASA, the U.S. Department of State, and NIKE, Inc. selected ten innovators to participate in their LAUNCH: […]
Molly Keelan Reports on the Patent Disputes 2011 Event: Patent Reform & New Models for a New Market
This week I’m reporting onTuesday’s Conference in Santa Clara CA: Patent Disputes 2011: Patent Reform and New Models for a New Market. The audience, consisting of over 100 in-house counsel, outside counsel and company executives, proved to be a very rich landscape of thought leaders who are now playing in unfamiliar surroundings. Initial discussions surrounded […]
Strategy of Being Lucky vs. Strategy is Everything
This week I had a unique front-to-end business experience within a span of 24 hours. Tuesday evening I attended the Founders Showcase event in San Francisco, which highlighted the most exciting startups in the earliest stages of starting up, together with several hundred Silicon Valley and Bay Area entrepreneurs, VCs, lawyers, etc. On Wednesday I […]
Innovating…Chicago Innovation Awards Style
Between the Second City actors taking innovation to its most raw form – improvisation, Beau Wrigley’s call to adopt innovation beyond business into other aspects of one’s life, and Dan Miller and Tom Kuczmarski’s Blue’s Brothers-themed introduction, the 10th annual Chicago Innovation Awards was a marked success. This event gave awards to ten of the […]