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Monday, December 3, 2012

Watch This Laser-Cut Map Appear Before Your Eyes, Block By Block

Not super into cartography? Add some lasers into the mix and see what happens. This video features a laser digging into some metal to create a map of Atlanta, Georgia and it's mesmerizing to watch it come into being before your eyes. More »

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Sunday, December 2, 2012

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Intellectual Property Protection Tips - Nicholls Legal

From NYT: The two most precious resources for any small-business owner are time and money. That?s why when the subject of intellectual property comes up, many owners run in the other direction. They see images of expensive lawyers and use that as an excuse to ignore the topic, reasoning that it is a problem for big companies to worry about.

The trouble is, with the rise of competition through the Internet and on the global market, understanding intellectual property is more critical than ever for small-business owners. Let?s explore some of the common fallacies:

1. For small-business owners, it?s not worth the time or effort to secure intellectual property rights.

Daniel Lubetzky, chief executive of New York City-based Kind Snacks, had high hopes when he and his company attended the Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, Calif., in March. And who could blame him, since his Kind Plus bars had been named the best new product at the Natural Products Expo East last October?

But it didn?t take long before Mr. Lubetzky knew something had gone wrong: He kept hearing how one of his competitors had copied the packaging, look and feel of his bars.

Fortunately for Mr. Lubetzky, he had secured crucial components of intellectual property like trademarks, trade dress (the look and feel of a product) and Web addresses after founding his company. Unlike a patent, which can cost up to $25,000 to secure, trademarks and Web addresses can be obtained relatively cheaply and without the aid of a lawyer.

With the legal documentation to back up his intellectual property rights, Mr. Lubetzky sent the offending company a cease-and-desist letter, which achieved the desired result. ?Too many entrepreneurs forget there is more to I.P. than just patents,? said Mr. Lubetzky, who happens to be a lawyer.

2. Once I get a trademark, my brand is safe.

It may be. But consider what happened to Tracey Deschaine, who runs a restaurant called Dixie Picnic? in Ocean City, N.J.

When Ms. Deschaine opened her business in 2006, she secured trademarks on her business name and logo and on the name of her signature item, ?upcakes,? which are upside-down frosted cupcakes. The problem, she says, was that even though she had obtained the trademarks, someone monitoring the activity on the United States Patent and Trademark Office?s Web site had spotted her application and secured upcakes.com as the Web address, or U.R.L., before she could.

?I had no idea that even though I have a trademark, someone else could just go register the U.R.L.,? she said. ?I wish I had planned ahead and bought the site before I did that.?

Full story here.

Source: http://nichollslegal.com/intellectual-property-protection-tips/

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Don't use industrial land for housing projects, MP ... - Real Estate India

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KOLKATA: Trinamool MP Saugata Roy on Saturday requested the Mamata Banerjee government not to sanction industrial land for housing projects. Roy is currently working on a new industrial policy and will submit it to the chief minister by this month.

Speaking at ?Bengal Builds? on the Milan Mela grounds, he said: ?I have suggested that the West Bengal government issue instructions not to sanction housing projects on industrial land. It is my humble request to the government.? He has also written to Mamata Banerjee on the issue.

It was noticed in some places that land earmarked for industrial purpose has been utilized for setting up housing projects. ?There is no dearth of land in the state. The West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC) has about 2,000 acre of land. It has to be distributed,? Roy said, adding that there are certain areas where the land has not been properly demarcated and identified.

Roy was appointed advisor to the state industry and IT departments after he resigned from his post as Union minister of state for urban development. He said that he has also written to industrialists seeking their opinions on how more industrialization can take place given the government?s hands-off policy and decision to allow no more SEZ in the state.

?I will hand over the industrial policy that we are preparing to the chief minister soon,? he said. The MP said due to some reasons the Centre is yet to announce the commencement of the second phase of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme that was supposed to commence from April.

?We will have to make sure that all ongoing JNNURM projects are completed before 2014, otherwise there will be cost escalation,? he said.

This apart, he stressed on the need to develop urban transport, specially public transport, and said the 1,200 odd new buses that the state government had got under the JNNURM scheme were not being run properly.

State urban development minister Firhad Hakim said that a UK-based company ? Modulex Modular Buildings Private Limited ? that constructs new technology fabricated housing complexes had recently visited the city and is looking for a 40 acre land off Kalyani highway. ?They have expressed interest to set up their factory unit. They will have to buy the land,? the minister said.

The day also saw state PWD and environment minister Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar speaking on the need to sustain the environment as urbanization will take place. There were other speakers who, too, spoke on the need for sustainable housing.

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Electrically spun fabric offers dual defense against pregnancy, HIV

ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2012) ? The only way to protect against HIV and unintended pregnancy today is the condom. It's an effective technology, but not appropriate or popular in all situations.

A University of Washington team has developed a versatile platform to simultaneously offer contraception and prevent HIV. Electrically spun cloth with nanometer-sized fibers can dissolve to release drugs, providing a platform for cheap, discrete and reversible protection. The research was published this week in the Public Library of Science's open-access journal PLoS One. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation last month awarded the UW researchers almost $1 million to pursue the technology.

"Our dream is to create a product women can use to protect themselves from HIV infection and unintended pregnancy," said corresponding author Kim Woodrow, a UW assistant professor of bioengineering. "We have the drugs to do that. It's really about delivering them in a way that makes them more potent, and allows a woman to want to use it."

Electrospinning uses an electric field to catapult a charged fluid jet through air to create very fine, nanometer-scale fibers. The fibers can be manipulated to control the material's solubility, strength and even geometry. Because of this versatility, fibers may be better at delivering medicine than existing technologies such as gels, tablets or pills. No high temperatures are involved, so the method is suitable for heat-sensitive molecules. The fabric can also incorporate large molecules, such as proteins and antibodies, that are hard to deliver through other methods.

At a lab meeting last year, Woodrow presented the concept, and co-authors Emily Krogstad and Cameron Ball, both first-year graduate students, pursued the idea.

They first dissolved polymers approved by the Food and Drug Administration and antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV to create a gooey solution that passes through a syringe. As the stream encounters the electric field it stretches to create thin fibers measuring 100 to several thousand nanometers that whip through the air and eventually stick to a collecting plate (one nanometer is about one 25-millionth of an inch). The final material is a stretchy fabric that can physically block sperm or release chemical contraceptives and antivirals.

"This method allows controlled release of multiple compounds," Ball said. "We were able to tune the fibers to have different release properties." One of the fabrics they made dissolves within minutes, potentially offering users immediate, discrete protection against unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.

Another dissolves gradually over a few days, providing an option for sustained delivery, more like the birth-control pill, to provide contraception and guard against HIV.

The fabric could incorporate many fibers to guard against many different sexually transmitted infections, or include more than one anti-HIV drug to protect against drug-resistant strains (and discourage drug-resistant strains from emerging). Mixed fibers could be designed to release drugs at different times to increase their potency, like the prime-boost method used in vaccines.

The electrospun cloth could be inserted directly in the body or be used as a coating on vaginal rings or other products.

Electrospinning has existed for decades, but it's only recently been automated to make it practical for applications such as filtration and tissue engineering.

This is the first study to use nanofibers for vaginal drug delivery.

While this technology is more discrete than a condom, and potentially more versatile than pills or plastic or rubber devices, researchers say there is no single right answer.

"At the time of sex, are people going to actually use it? That's where having multiple options really comes into play," Krogstad said. "Depending on cultural background and personal preferences, certain populations may differ in terms of what form of technology makes the most sense for them."

The team is focusing on places like Africa where HIV is most common, but the technology could be used in the U.S. or other countries to offer birth control while also preventing one or more sexually transmitted diseases.

The research to date was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the UW's Center for AIDS Research. The other co-author on the paper is Thanyanan Chaowanachan, a UW postdoctoral researcher and longtime HIV expert.

The team will use the new Gates Foundation grant to evaluate the versatility and feasibility of their system. The group will hire more research staff and buy an electrospinning machine to make butcher-paper sized sheets. The expanded team will spend a year testing combinations that deliver two antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV and a hormonal contraceptive, and then six months scaling up production of the most promising materials.

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Cameron Ball, Emily Krogstad, Thanyanan Chaowanachan, Kim A. Woodrow. Drug-Eluting Fibers for HIV-1 Inhibition and Contraception. PLoS ONE, 2012; 7 (11): e49792 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049792

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Saturday, December 1, 2012

What Employees Want In 2013 - Business Insider

The new year brings new resolutions ? and employees want a raise in 2013.

According to a survey released today by Glassdoor, 32 percent of?workers surveyed are focused on getting a raise and 24 percent want to work on their leadership and management skills.?

?As employment confidence gradually improves, it?s no surprise to see employees looking to wrest back control over their own destiny, which is why we see their focus on more money, a new job or a fresh commitment to their on-the-job performance,? said?Rusty Rueff, Glassdoor's career expert.?

Aside from this, 23 percent of workers said they're looking for a new job for the new year and two percent admitted to wanting to get their boss fired as their top goal. ?

Here are some other findings from the study: