Dolcera Musings

Here is the explanation:
For this option “Reduce to One Member per Family” we use the default order US-WO-EP-JP-GB-DE-FR for selecting the representative document, the Worksheet retains only one family member and deletes the other patents from the list. This feature gives you the basis for analysis of patents by family, eliminating the distortion that results from counting the same invention in each country. This is how we determine what document to keep. In each family, documents are sorted by country code, in order of preference: US WO EP JP GB DE FR. The first group of patents or authority (let’s say there are multiple US documents) is then sorted by date (oldest first) and then we choose the first record or oldest record.

The Dolcera Sequence Dashboard video demo is available on YouTube now. Here is the link.

I have put together a short video describing what my company, Dolcera, does. It’s just three and a half minutes long… Click on this link.

Excellent post from Andrew McAfee. Key points:

One of modern IT’s most underappreciated roles is as an enforcer of process discipline. Today’s enterprise systems make sure that complex, multi-step processes –  ones that involve employees, customers, suppliers, and other groups—are executed the same way time after time, location after location, with few or no exceptions.

Today, the parts of a business process that are executed with the assistance of IT are the easiest ones to control, monitor, and enforce. They’re also the easiest ones to reengineer with confidence…

KPOs - Copal and Pipal - are featured in the New York Times today.

In all the brouhaha over the new iPhone and its features, one thing that’s particularly promising is that with the cellular carriers really focusing on data as a source of revenue growth, voice minutes are bound to get cheaper. If I understand it correctly, the iPhone voice minutes are not going to be priced higher than any other phone’s, but the data plan is more expensive.

The US Supreme Court applies what it calls the “doctrine of patent exhaustion” and says LG can’t go about suing everyone up and down the supply chain for patent infringement.

The current issue of the Harvard Business Review has a fascinating study of patent sharks and their tactics.

The authors make five recommendations to counter patent sharks. To that, I’d like to make a sixth: Use IP landscaping (samples on our wiki) to understand the key players and key inventions before jumping into a new field.

Macaques control robotic arm and eat with it.

It seems like WalMart too has decided to go with the “tested and true” SAP platform. If this had happened 5 years ago, it would be considered a HUGE win. Today, WalMart doesn’t have quite the cachet… the aura is gone. But a big win for SAP nevertheless.