8 Ways to Boost Polymer Product Development Effectiveness

February 13, 2012

Contrary to what we are seeing in many companies, you can’t cut your way to growth.   To build a long-term sustainable business you must innovate and develop new products.  This requires a serious commitment from everyone in the organization.  Product development is one of the few activities that virtually touches every function in a company.  [...]

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Unleash Your Intellectual Property Potential – Trade Secrets

January 23, 2012

The final topic in this blog series is the tactic of trade secrets.  When a company develops a core competency that is very difficult to develop or copy, an effective strategy would be to keep key information, ingredients, processes a trade secret.  Probably one of the most famous trade secrets is the recipe for the [...]

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Unleash Your Intellectual Property Potential- Trademarks and Copyrights

January 16, 2012

A trademark is a word, name, symbol or device which is used in trade with goods to indicate the source of the goods and to distinguish them from the goods of others. A trademark is obtained by submitting an application to the United States Patent & Trademark Office. During the application process, the applicant may [...]

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Five Ways to Unleash Your Intellectual Property Potential – Licensing

January 9, 2012

Patents can be powerful revenue generators. Revenues from patent licensing have increased dramatically over the last 10 years. Many companies have realized that their most important asset is their intellectual property portfolio. The most notable example is IBM. In 2009, IBM was issued 4,914 patents from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. To put the [...]

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Five Ways to Unleash Your Intellectual Property Potential – Gain Market Advantage

January 3, 2012

Patents can be an effective means to leverage your innovation efforts to achieve a competitive advantage. There are two strategies on using patents; 1) Gain a proprietary market advantage 2) Generate revenue stream through license agreements Let’s focus on how to leverage your intellectual property to gain a market advantage. An issued US patent covering [...]

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Five Ways to Unleash Your Intellectual Property Potential–Patents

December 16, 2011

In the first post we introduced the five key tactics to get more our of your intellectual property.  This post focuses on patents. A patent can be granted to anyone who “invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvements.” The term “process” is [...]

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Five Ways to Unleash Your Intellectual Property Potential

December 16, 2011

The so called “old economy” companies derived a significant portion of their value from manufacturing prowess and hard assets. In the past, companies invested heavily in tangible asset utilization to gain a competitive advantage. The shift is on. In the “knowledge economy,” intangible assets such as intellectual property and brand strategies play a key role [...]

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“Secrets of Success” from Steve Jobs

October 9, 2011

Many of us struggle to keep going and persevere in the face of adversity.  Here is a short 1 minute video with Steve Jobs and what he considers his secret to success. The question is: In your company or business do you have passion for creating great new products?  Do you or your management team [...]

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Do you have a thermoset problem, but don’t have any formal training in thermosets?

September 20, 2011

Has your boss asked you to analyze a problem with an adhesive, encapsulant or composite and you don’t know where to start? Do you have an engineering or chemistry degree but never studied thermosets? Well, we have the solution! Dr. Jeffrey Gotro and Dr. R. Bruce Prime, two recognized experts in thermosetting polymers have teamed [...]

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Polymer Challenges in the Wind Turbine Industry

August 26, 2011

I was visiting my wife’s parents in rural Illinois recently and they participate in the Big Sky Wind Project in Bureau County, Illinois.  Big Sky is composed of 114, 2.1MW turbines spread out over 13,000 acres of elevated farmland and is one of Illinois’ premier wind resources.  My father-in-law has two turbines on his farm.  [...]

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