He notes that an area of IP where the issue is highly evident is business method patents.
With greater formalism, you can set a plan to drive tactical value with the execution of the social business method.
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While most have welcomed the outsourcing wave, some American companies view this business method as a deterioration of available U.S. jobs.
This is the case that may deliver a knockout blow to business method patents, those patents that everybody from free-software zealots to conservative Republicans love to hate.
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It merely added a minor tactical impediment to trolls by limiting the number of defendants that could be joined and it added a special temporary process for reviewing business method patents.
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In the couple of decades which have passed, courts have put some limits on business method patents but have allowed a lot of them to remain powerful weapons which motivate companies like AOL and Microsoft to buy and sell.
This is a business method that may change (T-Mobile USA are looking to switch to a more European system during 2012) but for the moment the mechanics of the monthly plan put more power in the hands of the networks than they do in the hands of the consumer.
Left undecided until Thursday are the important honest services cases, which could spring former Enron Chief Executive Jeffrey Skilling, and Bilksi, the patent case that could upturn business-method patent law.
But behind the 4-4-1 decision is an alternate path the court almost took, one that would have made it much harder to obtain business-method patents and would have provided retiring Justice John Paul Stevens with a final victory on an arcane issue he seems to care very much about.
Which is, I would submit, why gut feelings and rules of thumb from experts in their field are so useful as a method of business decision making.
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While we should all applaud big companies that are reducing the social and environmental damage of their practices and products, the article glosses over the two biggest questions and it simultaneously maligns one of the most innovative companies in the sustainable business space, Method home products.
But turning a better method into a business required changing the way doctors thought.
Neither is necessarily a better method of doing business you understand: but they are definitely different.
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And thus, after some period of time, that new method of doing business no longer makes excess profits.
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They need to embrace a new method of doing business that looks more like engineering or consulting than the law they grew up with.
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Most companies, it seems, are still working on customer feedback via tried and true method of grabbing business cards at trade shows, or using an excel spreadsheet.
Perhaps the most trenchant description of the Port Authority's method of doing business was outlined in an Oct. 19, 2011, op-ed in the New York Post by the PA's former executive director (1995-97), George J.
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The company appears to be differentiating itself from those two by offering a more systematized method of transitioning a business to cloud computing, and taking over more of the management of corporate computing.
In speaking with KoAnn about why Sustainable Brands has caught hold as it has, she explains that many forces are at work driving business to rethink the meaning and method of building a brand in the 21st century.
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Is this the sole method of sourcing capital for your business or a part of your overall strategy?
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It could be a new way to get customers, a new way to advertise on the web, a smart method for raising money for your business, a clever technique for buying a business on the cheap.
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The transport network in rural Kenya is practically non-existent, and cheap, durable cars that can carry several people can act as both a small transport business for a budding entrepreneur, or a method of carrying their stock.
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In a previous column titled, Jeff Bezos and the end of PowerPoint as we know it, I made the point that Bezos as well as other well-known business leaders are using a more visually engaging method of delivering presentations and doing so with the aid of traditional presentation software.
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This happens whether the business trader uses Section 475 MTM or the cash method.
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This method has increased revenue from the insertion business 28% in three years, a miraculous number for print media.
In the development of commerce in the United States, a frequent method of competition has been for one business to start up in close physical proximity to its competitor.
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But some accountants warn business owners not to jump so quickly to the easier deduction method.
But Mr Brown has mainly used a more circuitous method of financing redistribution: taxes on pensions and business.
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