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		<title>3 Lessons Mobile App Developers Can Take from the Path Fiasco</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you read tech news, you undoubtedly heard about the privacy fiasco involving Path and the revelation that the app was collecting and storing address data from iPhones—unbeknownst to the users. Morgan Reed, the executive director of the Association for Competitive Technology, talked with Innov8rs Network and tells what happened, and what lessons app developers ...]]></description>
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		<title>How  Concerned Should App Developers be about Getting a Lodsys Nastygram?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many in the mobile development community, particularly those who develop for iOS, have read stories about Lodsys, Apple, their patent disagreement(s), and potential lawsuits from Lodsys.  We talked with IP and business attorney Rob Cogan of Continuum Law about this situation and how mobile developers should proceed.  An audicast of the conversation will follow, but ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.innov8rs.org/how-concerned-should-app-developers-be-about-getting-a-lodsys-nastygram/</link>
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		<title>Step In and Make Your Pitch: $100k ELEV8r Mobile 2011 Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got something big brewing in the mobile space? Need a little help (investment, coaching, exposure,  etc.) to take it to the next level? Step into the ELEV8r and Make Your Pitch! We&#8217;ve been hinting at it for awhile, but it&#8217;s finally here.  Today, we are officially launching our first pitch competition for startups: Startup ELEV8r ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.innov8rs.org/step-in-and-make-your-pitch-100k-elev8r-mobile-2011-competition/</link>
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		<title>Nokia Is Getting Pummeled &#8230; But It&#8217;s Not as Bad As it Looks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earnings season is upon us and its already rocking the mobile world.  Apple reported a ridiculous quarter yesterday.  Microsoft reported a fantastic quarter today.  And, Nokia&#8230;they took a bruising. In fact, for the first time ever, Apple shipped more smartphones worldwide than Nokia. &#8220;Nokia says it sold 16.7 million smartphones in the previous quarter (April ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.innov8rs.org/nokia-is-getting-pummeled-but-its-not-as-bad-as-it-looks/</link>
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		<title>5/17 Event in DC: Intel&#8217;s Genevieve Bell Discusses Secrets to UX Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time since our last DC-based event, but this one was worth the wait. On May 17, Innovators Network will be hosting a discussion with Intel&#8217;s Genevieve Bell, their in-house anthropologist and one of the world&#8217;s foremost experts on user experience design. Dr. Bell will cover the basics of user experience design ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.innov8rs.org/genevieve-bell-secrets-to-ux-design/</link>
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		<title>Happy World Intellectual Property Day!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[National Journal.com - Tech Daily Dose: Juliana Gruenwald highlights two recent and conflicting reports on the impact intellectual property has on American businesses and learns that varying parties have various views on the matter. In her related piece, Dueling Studies On World IP Day, Gruenwald writes:]]></description>
		<link>http://www.innov8rs.org/happy-world-intellectual-property-day/</link>
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		<title>Ryobi Pays Price For Not Licensing Saw Safety IP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg - BusinessWeek.com: Victoria Slind-Flor reports on a week's worth of worthy intellectual property news in her topical piece, Ryobi, Apple, Rio Tinto: Intellectual Property (Update1). Here's her take on one case of a company *not* licensing potentially finger-saving technology and paying the price anyway after the fact:]]></description>
		<link>http://www.innov8rs.org/ryobi-pays-price-for-not-licensing-saw-safety-ip/</link>
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		<title>USPTO Examiners Denying Patents At An Alarming Rate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Patent Prospector: Looks like Stephen Albainy-Jenei over at PatentBaristas.com isn't the only one enlisting the aid of guest authors to pad the size of their blog. The Patent Hawk recently invited a fellow sharp wit to examine the trend of increased patent allowances by the USPTO and there's plenty of evidence to support John M. DeBoer's assertions that stinginess is the new name of the patent game. From DeBoer's guest author post, Debunking In Re Keller, we learn more about the new-found examiners' penurious behavior:]]></description>
		<link>http://www.innov8rs.org/uspto-examiners-denying-patents-at-an-alarming-rate/</link>
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		<title>Software Pirates Revel In Notoriety: Software Manufacturers Not So Much Anymore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ArsTechnica.com: What's in a word? Well, if the word in question is "piracy" as it relates to copyrighted files and those that use them in unlawful ways, plenty. In a recent piece, Nate Anderson takes a look at the vilification of file copying by rights owners and the strong identification with the term "pirate" by those who believe they have every right to copy their files, such as music, in any way they see fit. From Anderson's "Piracy" sounds too sexy, say rightsholders we learn how sailing the seven seas of the Internet while flying the Jolly Roger is changing:]]></description>
		<link>http://www.innov8rs.org/software-pirates-revel-in-notoriety-software-manufacturers-not-so-much-anymore/</link>
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		<title>Why Aren&#8217;t Genetic Sequences Protected Like Radio Frequency Bandwaves?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CNN Money - Fortune: While doing his best to harvest traffic via Google by mentioning a superstar pop figure, David Ewing Duncan also manages to address an item of greater importance: patenting human genetic sequences. In his catchily titled piece, What DNA, Patents and Lady Gaga have in common, Ewing Duncan writes on why genetics should be treated more like radio frequencies than better mousetraps:]]></description>
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