Corruption

Over the last twenty years, Big Tech drove what is probably the most effective political narrative in history into the collective mind of all three branches of government. Patent trolls, they exclaimed, are destroying innovation, and only the government can save America.  As a result, all three branches of government gutted the patent system. Lawmakers, […]

My dad worked at Fairchild from the late 1950’s through the 1960’s. His second level boss was Robert Noyce, the inventor of planar technology, which placed my dad on the team that put the first integrated circuit into mass production. Noyce left Fairchild to start up Intel in 1968. Shortly afterwards, Noyce offered my dad […]

MIT Media Lab Innovator Gauri Nanda—Inventor of Clocky®—Needs TLO Support. Technology transfer plays a critical role in technological progress and innovation. Universities and university-based researchers are responsible for creating some of this country’s most important technological innovations. The internet browser (Netscape), the internet search engine (Google), and numerous biotechnologies all were developed at U.S. universities.  […]