Federal Circuit Strikes Down Myriad Genetics Method of Screening Claims

Date:  Thu, 2014-12-18

On December 17, 2014, a three judge panel of the Federal Circuit issued a ruling that may significantly narrow the scope of patent eligible subject matter with respect to method claims in the biotechnology field. The unanimous decision, authored by Judge Dyk, held that claims to isolated short primers derived from genomic DNA and certain diagnostic method claims utilizing those primers recited patent ineligible subject matter. Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, which held that Myriad’s patent claims directed to the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes were directed towards natural products and accordingly were not eligible for patent protection, Myriad filed suit on different BRCA1 and BRCA2 patents against Ambry Genetics. In the decision issued by the Federal Circuit yesterday, captioned University of Utah Research Foundation et al. v. Ambry Genetics Corp, the appellate court applied the Supreme Court’s reasoning in Myriad and in Alice Corp v. CLS Bank Int’l to hold that claims directed towards primers derived from naturally-occurring DNA and methods of diagnosing an alteration in the BRCA1 gene using those primers are ineligible for patent protection.

See more at: http://www.ropesgray.com/news-and-insights/Insights/2014/December/Federa…

Silicon Beach Gold Coast Presents An Evening with Dr David Martin

Date:  Wed, 2014-12-17

See event at: http://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Beach-Gold-Coast/events/219320369/

Thursday, January 8, 2015 6:00 PM ONE 50 Public House 150 Bundall Road, Bundall

Brought to you with the support of Gold Coast City Council (Drinks & Food provided) we have an amazing internationally renowned speaker in Dr David Martin to engage with our start-up community early in the New Year.

Before January 1971, the Santa Clara Valley was know as the “Valley of Heart’s Delight”. It was brimming with fruit trees, vegetables and, speckled across the region were military research installations for the U.S. government. William B. Shockley, Jr. was to change all of that when, in the 1950s, he developed the silicon-based semiconductor. This amateur magician and physicist – known for his work on field effects – planted a seed that, in 70 years has consumed more human attention than most other endeavors combined: the mystique of Silicon Valley.

70 years later, we have apps, pads, and technology that keeps us “in-touch” virtually. But at the same time, we’re watching politicians mortgage our future on economic illusions, we’re watching disease spread with greater ease, we’re experiencing ethnic, class, religion, and ideological conflict that rivals the conditions of war that created Silicon Valley. Today’s entrepreneur has the capacity for conscious impact. Today’s entrepreneur can be a social alchemist. Today’s entrepreneur can radically transform the very nature of business. But to do this, we need different models.

David Martin, Founder and Chairman of Mosaic Technologies, M∙CAM and their affiliated enterprises, has demonstrated radically effective business models that engage matter and energy in innovative ways; build collective, collaborative enterprises; re-examine and re-deploy knowledge from across the entire arc of humanity; unleash torrents of capital for maximum impact; build technologies deployed in every country on Earth; and honor the fullness of human potential. He will share with us the irreducible certainty that a future is attainable in which our field effect can be based on a humanity that includes us all!

David is a very compelling speaker, able to tailor his message to the audience in a way that makes it relevant and applicable. His work in technology innovation and his experience in innovation finance makes him someone not to be missed. He is passionate about supporting start up communities to consider all-in-accounting and consequence management of innovation.

BIO: Dr. David E. Martin is the Founder and Chairman of M·CAM Inc., the international leader in innovation finance, trade, and intangible asset finance. Dr. Martin is a Batten Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration. He has been named Chair of Economic Innovation for the UN-affiliated Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization and has served as an advisor to numerous Central Banks, global economic forums, the World Bank and International Finance Corporation, and national governments. As international policy contributor, economist and futurist, Dr. Martin’s work at The Arlington Institute (U.S.) included accurately forecasting the global financial crisis of 2008 and working with the launch of Singapore’s Risk Assessment Horizon Scanning initiative.

Dr. Martin has closely advised innovation-based finance and investment programs in India, Brazil, China, Denmark, the European Union, the United Kingdom, South Africa, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the United States, Mongolia, Egypt, Ecuador, Singapore, Germany, Slovenia, Vietnam, and the United Arab Emirates. He has served as the Constitutional and Economic advisor to the Autonomy Committee of East New Britain and New Ireland, Papua New Guinea and has worked with ethical trade frameworks for the Kingdom of Tonga, the Independent State of Samoa, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea.

Dr. Martin has publications in law, medicine, engineering, finance, and education. He maintains active research in the fields of linguistic genomics, fractal financial-risk modeling, and cellular membrane ionic signaling.

See event at: http://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Beach-Gold-Coast/events/219320369/

M-CAM Technology Partner eSurface® Technologies Signs Licensing Agreement with Utah Valley University

Date:  Fri, 2014-12-12

eSurface Patented Technology Arrives at the “Silicon Slopes” of Utah.

CARLSBAD, California ”· eSurface® Technologies (DBA of EarthOne Circuit Technologies Corporation, a privately”held corporation), the creator and licensor of the eSurface proprietary patented technology for applied conductive materials,today announced the signing of a technology licensing agreement with Utah Valley University (UVU), effective immediately.

The signed technology licensing agreement allows UVU to utilize eSurface’s patented technology for development and education purposes within their College of Technology & Computing.  The agreement, valued at $400,000, also allows UVU to publish white papers on work generated from the use of the technology and receive the commercial rights in respect to any enhancements to the intellectual property by UVU.  As part of the agreement, eSurface will also work in conjunction with UVU to locate an eSurface Technologies office in the “Silicon Slopes” area of Utah.

“This agreement with eSurface allows our students and faculty the ability to work with cutting”edge intellectual property directly on our campus,” explained Michael J. Savoie, Ph.D., Dean, UVU, College of Technology & Computing. “This is an opportunity to not only have hands”on experience with industry”changing technology but also allows our faculty and students to build upon the eSurface intellectual property for further enhancements in multiple applications.”

“We are pleased and excited to be able to work the Utah Valley University and all their outstanding faculty and students,” stated Dave Benson, eSurface Chairman and CEO. “The focus of the College of Technology & Computing goes beyond teaching curriculum, its culture drives students to operate out of the box by utilizing the latest technologies to create innovation and invention. After multiple meetings and discussions with the leaders at the University and in the College of Technology & Computing, the fit between our two organizations was undeniable.  We are eager to witness the combination of eSurface with the young minds of UVU.”

M·CAM releases Patently Obvious® on the $41 Billion Valuation of Uber

Date:  Wed, 2014-12-10

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA December 10, 2014- M·CAM released its Patently Obvious® on the $41 Billion Valuation of Uber

On December 4, 2014, Uber announced that it raised $1.2 billion in its most recent round of funding, valuing the company at $41 billion. The smartphone taxi service has grown rapidly in the past year, although it is experiencing pushback from regulatory authorities in various countries and cities. Its valuation this summer was a mere $18 billion, but is the new higher number an accurate estimation of Uber’s value? Instead of crowning Uber as the hottest global startup, this valuation may well paint a target on the company and benchmark a very high value for opportunistic patent trolls to pursue.

M·CAM’s Patently Obvious® is a report providing visibility into potentially unconsidered alternatives, including art in the public domain, to patent holdings across a variety of technology areas.

M·CAM is a global, full-service intellectual property and rights (IP&R) and intangible asset financial services firm. We provide the technical and financial systems that allow public and private markets to use IP&R and IA for regulated transactions in banking, securities, insurance, and public innovation investment and technology procurement. From our pioneering work in creating the world’s first standards-based innovation collateralization financial products for banking and securities to our work in grassroots innovator enablement and patent quality assurance programs, M·CAM provides the mechanism to balance the interests of public and commercial sectors to support and build thriving economies.

The M·CAM Patently Obvious® on the $41 Billion Valuation of Uber can be found HERE.

M-CAM Founder Dr. David Martin’s Financial Literacy Program Referenced in CNN Bleacher Report Article on Tracy McGrady

Date:  Tue, 2014-12-09

Here is how Tracy McGrady is going to change the world.

He is going to teach athletes to take control of their money. He is going to make them understand what he has come to learn in the last four years, when the injuries piled up and the games played went down: that it is easy to grasp investing once you know the language. And once they have this knowledge, he will help to launch a revolution among players who have been told they are too dumb to ask the right questions.

“He is going to teach athletes to take control of their money.”

He has a plan to make this happen. It was a plan designed by a friend, Rodney Woods, who first approached him about the idea a few years ago and has been pushing him to study and visit factories and meet executives ever since.

In this plan athletes and entertainers””suddenly wealthy people like himself””will learn about minority-owned manufacturers and then invest in those companies, bringing capital and jobs to the very neighborhoods where they grew up.

The plan is more complicated, of course. It will include education and support for the athletes. It will help link those small minority-owned manufacturers with big companies, connecting, say, a carpet company in Memphis to a car company in need of floor mats. It has already involved hundreds of people in its development and will bring in thousands more when it goes fully live in December.

“I don’t know of anyone putting something together like this on this scale.”- Robert Pagliarini “I don’t know of anyone putting something together like this on this scale,” says Robert Pagliarini, a California wealth management expert who has represented athletes but is not affiliated with McGrady and Woods.

If the plan works as it should and athletes invest and the minority companies thrive, Tracy should become bigger than T-Mac ever was. He will have an empire not unlike that of Magic Johnson, who bought into neighborhoods no one would touch, building hope with his own brand of Starbucks and movie theaters. Tracy is convinced his will be bigger.

He can become, as David Martin, a Virginia trade and patent expert who is a key adviser to Woods, says, “The first NBA player who is a half-a-billion-dollar industrialist.”

“How many athletes is [Magic] saving?” Woods asked in his first pitch to McGrady. “What has Magic ever done for you? Did he show the athletes how to be successful? You have to show the athlete how it’s done.”

Tracy wants to show them. He wants to tell them how naive they are when they blindly hand their future to advisers without knowing where their money goes. He wants them to see how he has managed to keep his wealth intact by not spending foolishly and how when he did””like the time he bought his own plane””he extracted himself from those mistakes.

He can become “the first nba player who is a half-a-billion-dollar industrialist.”- David Martin

He wants them to hear the words of CleRenda, who told him back when his career was falling apart, “Think about the end before the beginning.”

He does not need to be T-Mac even as T-Mac beckons him to the court, tempting him with a taste of what he has missed and a final chance at reclaiming those games lost to the aching back and throbbing knee.

“It’s like walking away from somebody you love,” CleRenda says.

Only now he has a new love.http://thelab.bleacherreport.com/tracymcgrady/

Dr. David Martin Highlights Murrietta & eSurface in his Inverted Alchemy Blog

Date:  Wed, 2014-11-19

Murrietta Circuits and eSurface Open House guest David Martin, Owner of M-CAM and is also an industry blogger and has appeared on CNBC to offer his opinions about the value of various technological advancements and place value on Intellectual Property Patents. His latest blog was about the Murrietta Circuits and eSurface partnership and how it will revolutionize the industry. http://www.invertedalchemy.com/

Press Release: Murrietta Circuits Becomes Newest eSurface® Technologies Licensee

Award-Winning Anaheim-based Full-Service Printed Circuit Board Supplier to Implement eSurface Technology CARLSBAD, California ”· eSurface® Technologies the developer of the eSurface proprietary method for creating printed circuit boards, today announced the completion of a technology licensing agreement with Southern California-based Murrietta Circuits, one of the preeminent circuit board providers in North America.

The executed technology license agreement between Murrietta Circuits and eSurface Technologies provides Murrietta the right to manufacture printed circuit boards using eSurface’s patented technology, receive implementation and marketing support from eSurface and to be acknowledged as an eSurface Authorized Facility. The term of the eSurface technology license is five years.

Murrietta’s Integrated Solution: As a Vertically Integrated Electronic Manufacturing Services Company, Murrietta Circuits provides custom made, high reliability circuit boards for the military, aerospace, and medical industries. A uniquely “Integrated Solution”, Murrietta provides design, fabrication, assembly and test services for a true one stop turnkey experience. “We are very excited about this agreement and partnership with eSurface, as we truly believe that this technology will not only change the way that boards are manufactured, but change the way boards are designed, for us and the entire industry,” stated Andrew Murrietta, Murrietta Circuits CEO. “We spent the last 30 plus years designing and manufacturing circuit boards, so we felt we had a well-honed perspective on what this means for the entire circuit board development cycle. BGA technology and density is driving much of today’s biggest challenges within our industry and eSurface gives us that very rare ability to increase circuit density while decreasing cost! Given our business model, we believe we can prove out this process, design in its key advantages and bring products to market faster and more efficiently than anyone.”

“We are honored to be able to license the eSurface technology to a manufacturer of the quality and high standards of Murrietta Circuits,” stated Dave Benson, eSurface Chairman and President. “If we could hand-pick the facility in which we would like to implement our technology, Murrietta would be at the top of that list. We are particularly excited to engage the design expertise of Murrietta to infuse the features and benefits of eSurface into the high-reliability circuit space. Murrietta as a full solution provider in the industry provides a platform to leverage eSurface and to provide Murrietta with a true advantage in the industry.”

Five Star Award for Supplier Excellence: Murrietta Circuits has won many supplier awards and most recently received a Five Star Award for Supplier Excellence from Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems on June 4th, 2014, their second year in a row and third year as an award winner. Raytheon recognizes its Five Star Suppliers based on three important factors: 100% on-time delivery, 100% sustained quality, and continuous process improvements. Raytheon has more than 5,000 global suppliers and Murrietta Circuits was one of only 15 to be recognized for this tremendous achievement. Murrietta Circuits provides complete assemblies that are utilized in Raytheon’s missile programs SM2, SM3 and Sparrow as well as supporting Raytheon in the relentless pursuit of excellence, new technologies, and innovations.

About eSurface Technologies: eSurface® Technologies is the creator of the eSurface process, a proprietary patented process that can dramatically impact the manufacturing and design segment of multiple industries. The initial adoption of the eSurface proprietary process by the global circuit board manufacturing industry is leading to the innovation of products previously not thought possible. eSurface Technologies (DBA of EarthOne Circuit Technologies Corporation, a privately-held corporation) is based in Carlsbad, California. http://www.esurface.com.

M·CAM Featured in a Report Released by the United Kingdom’s Intellectual Property Office

Date:  Fri, 2014-11-14

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA November 14, 2014 – The United Kingdom’s Intellectual Property Office has released a report on “IP Markets and Enabling Information Ecosystems” in which M·CAM’s expertise as an intangible asset underwriter is featured on page 22.

“Many intellectual property insurance products focus on underwriting the legal costs of defending and pursuing claims in cases of infringement. Few providers underwrite the actual value of an asset. This kind of risk transfer is often required to enable a lender to treat intangible assets as collateral. One such provider across multiple intellectual property and intangible asset sectors is M·CAM.”

The rest of the article can be found HERE.