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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

If you want to see just crazy the situation is, watch this video by software developer Austin Meyer, in which he describes his experience trying to fight these patent infringement claims with the companies that sued him. Can you patent software?: However, software is not always something that can be patented.

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Conceptual Models in a Nutshell

Boxes and Arrows

This article explains what conceptual models are and describes the value of developing a conceptual model of a software application before designing its user interface. A conceptual model of an application is the model of the application that the designers want users to understand.

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Digital Twins: what it is, how it works, and the advantages of this technology

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Originally, this term was coined by Dr. Michael Grieves in 2002. This allows you to make the necessary adjustments and create a more efficient design. Think: at this stage, the intelligent software analyzes the collected data and, if there is a problem, seeks several possible solutions for each one.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

To understand Samsung’s rise to dominance we have to go back to the turn of the new millennium when Apple released their first generation iPod in 2001, quickly followed by the iTunes store in 2002. It’s this growth and the insights into Apple’s operations that helped Samsung and Foxconn craft their own spectacular rises to power.

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The Real (and Imagined) Problems with the U.S. Corporate Tax Code

Harvard Business Review

corporate tax code should be reformed, but not every proposed fix is a good one. companies are not being held back by the corporate tax code. corporate tax code. Due to the aggressive use of corporate loopholes, some U.S. tax code for non-corporate business structures. And in practice, the foreign income of U.S.

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Why HP's Departure from the PC Business Was Inevitable

Harvard Business Review

But it was an inevitable consequence of the value chain strategy that the company pursued in a highly constrained innovation space — one in which the hardware platform is defined by Intel and the software experience is defined by Microsoft. Some resorted to industrial design. HP thought it could win with scale.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

The number of internet users in China stood at roughly 5 million in 1999 but grew to 40 million in 2002, by which time it was clear that Yahoo was not getting the traction that local Chinese internet companies were seeing. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Both were offered free to consumers and merchants.