M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious™ report on potential public-domain patent alternatives to the patent portfolio held by Ayscough Visuals, LLC

Date:  Fri, 2010-02-19

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious™ report on potential public–domain patent alternatives to the patent portfolio held by Ayscough Visuals, LLC

Charlottesville, VA –– M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious™ report today on the patent portfolio held by Ayscough Visuals, LLC, a non–operating patent licensing entity. Focused on patents regarding digital video encoding and compression, this report identifies potential public–domain alternatives that are available for incorporation into media products and services without cost or licensing restriction.

Ayscough Visuals, LLC possesses intellectual property concerning audio and video encoding and compression. These intellectual properties describe methods to predict and streamline video motion encoding, resulting in increased quality and significant savings in bandwidth costs for multimedia suppliers. While it is not transparent to the market what commercial intent Ayscough Visuals, LLC has for these patents, it is reasonable to assume that they will pursue sales or licensing models.

Digital media has been, and is likely to continue to be, the core of entertainment and information distribution modes, but the technologies that underlie the standards for encoding and transmission of that media are still in the process of being defined. It is imperative that this innovation space, like all others, consider publicly available innovations when designing content delivery platforms and media mechanisms. The use of public domain which translates to significantly cheaper costs, should aid the effort to encourage widespread public adoption, minimize licensing costs, and overcome other existing barriers to entry entrenched in such an active and vibrant technology area.

M·CAM’s Patently Obvious™ is a weekly report highlighting unconsidered alternatives, including art in the public domain, to patent holdings across a variety of technology areas.

M·CAM, Inc. 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.

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M·CAM’s Heritable Innovation Trust Program Expands to Mongolia

Date:  Mon, 2010-01-25

M·CAM’s Heritable Innovation Trust Program Expands to Mongolia

January 25, 2010 –– The Vice President of the Mongolian National Business Incubators Federation and Director of Business Talent Women’s Incubator, Tsend Enkhtuya has become a deployment partner for the Heritable Innovation Trust program in Mongolia. During recent meetings sponsored by, and including, the President of Mongolia, Economic and Development Advisors, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Heritable Innovation Trust framework was presented and warmly embraced.

M·CAM is working with Tsend Enkhtuya to initiate programs with the nomadic yak herders. “In this winter is very cold in Mongolia and a lots of livestock are in disaster because of high snows, colds, also from mining’s environmental problems,” she writes. Given the extensive Heritable Knowledge in ecological resource management, dairy production, and organic resource utilization, the nomadic communities are ideally aligned for inclusion in the Heritable Innovation Trust framework.

This summer, M·CAM is preparing expansions of the Heritable Innovation Trust programs in an expanded number of communities in Papua New Guinea, Mongolia, Ecuador, and northeastern Brazil.

M·CAM Names Adam L. Tepper Managing Director of Global Capital Markets

Date:  Mon, 2010-01-25

M·CAM Names Adam L. Tepper Managing Director of Global Capital Markets

January 25, 2010 –– M·CAM is pleased to introduce Adam L. Tepper as Managing Director of Global Capital Markets. He brings nearly 14 years experience in finance, capital markets and strategic development to his role at M·CAM. Adam’s responsibilities include sourcing, structuring and managing M·CAM’s capital structure. Additionally, Adam is responsible for corporate development and financial strategic development. Prior to M·CAM, Adam was a founding Principal of GroundWork Equity, LLC.

Adam worked as an investment banker at Prudential Securities in the asset–backed finance group. During his three years at Prudential, Adam structured and raised nearly $5 billion in asset–backed securities (ABS) backed by both consumer as well as commercial assets. Additionally, he helped to structure and set–up a joint–venture between Prudential and Charles A. Koppleman, CAK Universal Credit Corp., to provide financing to entertainers by taking future royalties as collateral against loans.

He was selected, with his Prudential team, by Credit Suisse First Boston to join CSFB’s structured finance team. Over the next five years, Adam applied his expertise in structured finance to the aircraft leasing, airline and rail industries during which time he helped to generate in excess of $100 million in revenue to CSFB through a variety of corporate finance activities. These projects included the structuring and sale of over $5 billion in aircraft–backed debt and equity securities, the $3+ billion restructuring of Brazil’s largest airline (TAM Airlines) and a $500+ million, out–of–court restructuring of Pegasus Aviation, Inc. which included a $250 million private equity recapitalization by OakTree Capital. Pegasus Aviation was subsequently sold to Terra Firma for approximately $5 billion.

Adam graduated in 1996 from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania with concentrations in finance and entrepreneurial management.

M·CAM Releases World Health Global Innovation Commons and Social Networking Platform

Date:  Tue, 2010-01-19

M·CAM Releases World Health Global Innovation Commons and Social Networking Platform

Charlottesville, VA; Washington D.C.; Rabaul, Papua New Guinea – January 19, 2010 –– M·CAM is pleased to announce the publication of the fourth and final title in the Global Innovation Commons – World Health. This title now completes the four–part commitment to the world in making available the most comprehensive compilation innovation sorted by its utility for open source and generic deployment. In its World Health publication, M·CAM has included treatments, management or cures for Chagas Disease, Buruli Ulcer, Dengue Fever, Leishmaniasis, Malaria, Snake and Spider Bite and several more disorders impacting the most marginalized members of the Global Community.

The World Health section of the Global Innovation Commons is dedicated to the fields of disease prevention and public health. The list is comprised of the most neglected diseases that are prevalent in the most marginalized populations. Some of these diseases are known to have preventative measures or acute treatments that are not accessible in the areas which need it the most. Due to the nature of this section of the Global Innovation Commons, we would like to extend a message of honor to those who have died from, lost someone to, suffered from, or will contract these diseases. Without their sacrifice, the research for the treatment and prevention of these devastating diseases would not have been possible. Our goal is to create a massive global awareness about these diseases, thereby significantly reducing their effect and creating a more productive and engaged world for the future.

M·CAM has also launched a Global Innovation Commons social networking site which includes opportunities to share in Commons utilization, education, and community development.

M·CAM is pleased to acknowledge the nearly 10,000 Commoners who have made the first three months of the Global Innovation Commons an unprecedented success.

Please visit the GIC at http://www.globalinnovationcommons.org/

Please visit the GIC Community at http://www.globalinnovationcommons.org/blog/

Commons Emerges as a Fulcrum with United Nations member states and UN organizations

Date:  Wed, 2009-12-16

Commons Emerges as a Fulcrum with United Nations member states and UN organizations

New York – – On December 16, a galvanized group of people took action to reclaim the world’s global commons heritage by meeting in New York to form a commons advocacy and advisory group for the United Nations member states and UN organizations. The group will work to identify and revitalize commons structures around the world, to create new commons structures to meet emerging needs, and to communicate these to United Nations member states and UN organizations. Dr. Monica Sharma from the United Nations Development Program facilitated this inaugural meeting.

A primary focus of the meeting was to organize strategic actions to translate the “commons” from a metaphor into deployed systems that are integrated with the people that use the commons in all its forms.

The group includes James Quilligan, global economic policy adviser; David Bollier, author of Viral Spiral and Imagining a New Politics of the Commons; and representatives of diverse groups such as the All–Win Network, Association of World Citizens, Commons Governance Work Group, Earth Values Caucus, Global Commons Trust, the Henry George School of Philadelphia, Kosmos Journal, M·CAM, Inc., P2P Foundation, Pierre Terre Productions, Share the World’s Resources, Trees Have Rights Too, URSULA, and other concerned citizens.

David Pratt of M·CAM described the already–deployed Global Innovation Commons and Heritable Innovation Trusts at the meeting to give attendees an understanding of functional commons and trust systems related to heritable knowledge, technology, and intellectual property. These shared systems provide a fulcrum and unifying models that UN member states can use to transform their economic models for the benefit of their people. UN organizations can help communicate and support these efforts through the work of their multilateral structures.

M·CAM Global Innovation Commons Featured in Brazil’s Leading Business Publication Valor Economico

Date:  Wed, 2009-12-16

M·CAM Global Innovation Commons Featured in Brazil’s Leading Business Publication Valor Economico

Sao Paulo, Brazil – December 16, 2009 –– The Global Innovation Commons was featured in a article in Brazil’s Valor Economico today. The opportunities enabling the transformation Brazil’s economic engagement in all fields of innovation businesses were highlighted. Special attention was focused on the development of open source–based development in the areas of specialty chemicals and medicines. This publication follows M·CAM’s recently announced plans to partner in the creation of a new class of entrepreneurial capital models for Brazilian businesses. M·CAM launched its first funding partnership with SHER, FINEP and CIETEC at an event in Sao Paulo on December 15.

M·CAM Featured in Ethical Markets Pre-Copenhagen Climate Prosperity Announcement

Date:  Mon, 2009-11-30

M·CAM Featured in Ethical Markets Pre–Copenhagen Climate Prosperity Announcement

November 30, 2009 –&#8211 Since politicians in the USA, Britain and Europe are too close and beholden to their financial sectors, independent private sector investors are now leading the way. As new funds continue to pour into building the green economy, governments may be shamed into following at least with guarantees. A recent report from DeutscheBanke shows, the leading countries for green investors are China, India, France, Germany and Brazil, while the USA and Britain’s political inertia make them less attractive. UNEP–FI’s 2009 Report on Catalyzing Low Carbon Growth shows how $1 of public investment can leverage between $3 and $15 of private investment.

Those governments that do not oppose their financial, fossil fuel and nuclear lobbies will lose the race for climate prosperity, wasting billions on futile R&D for “clean” coal carbon sequestration and other un–needed technologies. As Dr. David Martin, patent expert, of the innovation firm M·CAM points out, we have already invented all the technologies for the transition to the Solar Age. While on the Advisory Council of the US Office of Technology Assessment, I learned how many of these technologies were captured and patented by big fossil fuel and financial companies in order to keep them off the market, as General Motors did with its early electric car. Dr. Martin has launched the Global Innovation Commons and inventoried all the needed technologies that are now freely in the public domain.

For the complete release, please click HERE

Event Celebrating Publication of Enough to Go Around Unites Worlds of Publishing, Finance, and Philanthropy

Date:  Mon, 2009-11-23

Event Celebrating Publication of Enough to Go Around Unites Worlds of Publishing, Finance, and Philanthropy

New York –– On November 12, an assortment of representatives from the worlds of publishing, journalism, new media, finance, micro–finance, philanthropy, and NGOs gathered at the Synergos Institute’s offices atop the NY Life building to celebrate the release of Enough to Go Around – Searching for Hope in Afghanistan, Pakistan & Darfur, the new title by documentary filmmaker and photojournalist Chip Duncan, published by SelectBooks, Inc.

The event was well attended, thanks not only to the level of interest in Mr. Duncan’s work and vision, but also to the efforts and support of the Synergos Institute. Synergos is a charitable organization founded by Peggy Dulany in 1986. Its mission is to reduce poverty and promote social justice around the world by facilitating partnerships and connecting influential individuals and organizations to effective action at the community level. Bob Dunn is the Synergos President and CEO, and in his opening remarks addressed to the gathering, he praised Duncan’s lucid and engaging prose style which he felt deserved equal attention to the powerful photography.

The next speaker was Dr. David Martin of M·CAM, Inc., a financial institution whose mission focuses on “ethical financing for international engagement.” Dr. Martin delivered an impassioned plea for greater and more meaningful outreach to the developing world.

To view video on Book TV, please click HERE

M·CAM Responds to Chatham House Report on “Low Carbon Future”

Date:  Fri, 2009-11-20

M·CAM Responds to Chatham House Report on “Low Carbon Future”

Charlottesville, VA – November 20, 2009 –– In August of 2009, Chatham House published a report entitled “Who Owns Our Low Carbon Future? Intellectual Property and Energy Technologies.” This report sought to examine two issues: patent ownership of climate–friendly technologies and the rate of technology diffusion across these technology areas. In the executive summary, the report insightfully notes that “Policy–makers managing the transition to a global low carbon economy will struggle when making the critical choices unless they have a clear understanding of the range of technological options available from different sectors within specific time horizons…” Unfortunately, this report neglects to consider one critical technology option available to policy makers – the vast quantities of climate–friendly technologies that either exist in the public domain or lack broad international patent protection.

While Chatham House has long analyzed environmental climate change initiatives they have, in the past, neglected to consider the patent implications of their own proposed solutions. On January 16, 2006, Chatham House held a meeting on the outcome of the UN climate chance negotiations in Montreal wherein they recommended global carbon credit trading schemes as a proactive solution to promote sustainable energy systems worldwide. Unfortunately, those recommended schemes also turn out to be patented worldwide until at least the year 2025. Following the course of action recommended by Chatham House could actually induce patent infringement.

Global Innovation Commons featured in Bollier’s “On The Commons”

Date:  Wed, 2009-11-18

Global Innovation Commons featured in Bollier’s “On The Commons”

November 18, 2009–– In advance of the Copenhagen Climate Change summit, M·CAM’s work on facilitating global access to Open Source innovation through the Global Innovation Commons is drawing use and comment from around the world. In his review, David Bollier, author of Viral Spiral and lecturer on the growing commons movement, reviews the role of M·CAM’s Global Innovation Commons.

To link to On The Commons web Site, please click HERE

Global Innovation Commons receives pre-Copenhagen coverage; European Patent Office official minimizes violation of patent law

Date:  Thu, 2009-11-05

Global Innovation Commons receives pre–Copenhagen coverage; European Patent Office official minimizes violation of patent law

November 5, 2009 – Brussels, Belgium –– Innovation policy will be the fulcrum for many climate negotiations at United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen. Negotiators seek to extend existing intellectual property practices to vital issues including climate change technologies. M·CAM has provided the world’s most comprehensive interactive archive of climate change technologies which have been opaque to the global market for decades – being brought to international visibility in the Global Innovation Commons (http://www.globalinnovationcommons.org). In a deployment partnership with the World Bank and International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) infoDev, M–CAM has made available over $2 trillion of both revenue generating and research and development technologies for public, open-source, use.

In today’s cover article in Der Spiegel – Patent Lies: Who Says Saving the Planet Has to Cost a Fortune – M·CAM’s work on innovation ethics is highlighted. In addition, a now retired senior officer of the European Patent Office acknowledges, on the record, that the illegal practice of redundant patent filings is merely a “detail.” “Sometimes patents are not worth what they claim they are in terms of innovation,” Gerard Giroud, the recently retired international affairs director of the European Patent Office, told SPIEGEL ONLINE. “But it seems to me a detail. Patent offices should grant patents to encourage investment in a particular type of technology – because that investment is what will save the planet.”

For the complete article, please download:http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,628606,00.html

PUBPAT News: Court Upholds Right Of Scientists And Patients To Challenge Gene Patents

Date:  Mon, 2009-11-02

PUBPAT New: Court Upholds Right Of Scientists And Patients To Challenge Gene Patents

November 2, 2009 – New York –&#8211 A federal district court ruled today that patients and scientists can challenge patents on human genes in court, allowing a lawsuit challenging patents on two human genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer to move forward.

The lawsuit was filed by the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) and the American Civil Liberties Union. The groups charge that the patents are illegal and restrict both scientific research and patients’ access to medical care, and that patents on human genes violate the First Amendment and patent law because genes are “products of nature.”

“We hope this challenge is the beginning of the end to patents on genes, which limit scientific research, learning and the free flow of information,” said Chris Hansen, a staff attorney with the ACLU First Amendment Working Group. “No one should be able to patent a part of the human body.”

The lawsuit, Association for Molecular Pathology, et al. v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, et al., was originally filed on May 12 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of breast cancer and women’s health groups, individual women, geneticists and scientific associations representing approximately 150,000 researchers, pathologists and laboratory professionals. The lawsuit was filed against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), as well as Myriad Genetics and the University of Utah Research Foundation, which hold the patents on the BRCA genes. The defendants asked the court to dismiss the case but today’s ruling allows the lawsuit to proceed.

Because the PUBPAT/ACLU lawsuit challenges the whole notion of gene patenting, its outcome could have far-reaching effects beyond the patents on the BRCA genes. Approximately 20 percent of all human genes are patented, including genes associated with Alzheimer’s disease, muscular dystrophy, colon cancer, asthma and many other illnesses.

The court noted the significance of this case. The court’s opinion stated, “The widespread use of gene sequence information as the foundation for biomedical research means that resolution of these issues will have far–reaching implications, not only for gene–based health care and the health of millions of women facing the specter of breast cancer, but also for the future course of biomedical research… The novel circumstances presented by this action against the USPTO, the absence of any remedy provided in the Patent Act, and the important constitutional rights the Plaintiffs seek to vindicate establish subject matter jurisdiction over the Plaintiffs’ claim against the USPTO.”

“We look forward to proving in court that human gene patents should never have been granted in the first place,” said Daniel B. Ravicher, Executive Director of PUBPAT. “Companies should not able to own the rights to a piece of the human genome. Specific tests or drugs can be patented, but not genes themselves.”

The specific patents PUBPAT and the ACLU are challenging are on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. Mutations along the BRCA1 and 2 genes are responsible for most cases of hereditary breast and ovarian cancers. Many women with a history of breast and ovarian cancer in their families opt to undergo genetic testing to determine if they have the mutations on their BRCA genes that put them at increased risk for these diseases. This information is critical in helping these women decide on a plan of treatment or prevention, including increased surveillance or preventive mastectomies or ovary removal.

The patents granted to Myriad give the company the exclusive right to perform diagnostic tests on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes and to prevent any researcher from even looking at the genes without first getting permission from Myriad. Myriad’s monopoly on the BRCA genes makes it impossible for women to access alternate tests or get a second opinion about their results and allows Myriad to charge a high rate for their tests.

“The patents on BRCA1 and BRCA2 restrict women’s access to genetic testing and interfere with their medical care,” said Sandra Park, staff attorney with the ACLU Women’s Rights Project. “We hope that at the conclusion of this lawsuit, the court declares the patents unconstitutional and invalid.”

Several major organizations, including the American Medical Association, the March of Dimes and the American Society for Human Genetics, filed friend–of–the–court briefs in support of the challenge to the patents on the BRCA genes.

More information about the case, including a video of why we’re fighting to liberate the breast cancer genes, plaintiff and supporter statements and a copy of the court’s decision denying the motions to dismiss the case, can be found online at http://www.pubpat.org/brca.

M·CAMs Global Innovation Commons Debuts in Brazil, Launches in India, and Opens Doors in China

Date:  Thu, 2009-10-29

M·CAM’s Global Innovation Commons Debuts in Brazil, Launches in India, and Opens Doors in China

Florianopolis, Brazil; Delhi, India; Zheng Zhou, China. In it’s worldwide launch of the Global Innovation Commons initiative, M·CAM’s commitment to the development of equitable innovation engagement for the world was highlighted today. At the World Bank and IFC’s infoDev Global Forum in Florianopolis Brazil, M·CAM’s Executive Chairman, Dr. David Martin, officially unveiled and demonstrated the world’s first Global Innovation Commons on Clean/Green Energy and Water Technologies. Highlighting “open source” and freedom-to-operate technologies in the area of Hybrid Vehicles, Dr. Martin showed the most marginalized and middle income countries over 15,000 patents which have been filed in the industrialized countries but which have either been unprotected in the Most Marginalized States, not maintained and abandoned, or expired. Using this information, countries and their entrepreneurial ventures can immediately understand, create and market products to address critical technology needs without fear of patent infringement in the unprotected markets. At the inaugural unveiling of the Global Innovation Commons, the first password was given to Dr. H.K. Mittal of India’s Department of Science and Technology in honor of his contribution to inspiring M·CAM’s creation of this platform. To complete the global unveiling, M·CAM’s Open Innovation Engineer Megan DeLuccia introduced the Global Innovation Commons at a combined State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China, Beijing East Linden, and Ministry of Science and Technology conference in Zheng Zhou China. For more information, please visit:

http://infodev.org/en/Article.427.html andhttp://www.globalinnovationcommons.org

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M·CAM Open Innovation Engineer Megan DeLuccia Addresses 5th International Seminar on Enterprise Intellectual Property Strategy in Zheng Zhou, People’s Republic of China

Date:  Thu, 2009-10-29

M·CAM Open Innovation Engineer Megan DeLuccia Addresses 5th International Seminar on Enterprise Intellectual Property Strategy in Zheng Zhou, People’s Republic of China

October 29, 2009 – Zheng Zhou –– People’s Republic of China. Megan DeLuccia will be giving two addresses at the 5th International Seminar on Enterprise Intellectual Property Strategy sponsored by long–time M·CAM business partner Beijing East Linden and the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China. Her speeches will focus on the changing dynamic of the intellectual property system in light of global development. She will address topics including the effective use of open source and Global Innovation Commons intellectual property information, the changing landscape of financial transactions involving intellectual property, and intangible asset insurance. Specific details will be shared regarding Innovation Trade Credit Offset programs, Sovereign Technology Credit Obligations, and transactional Representation and Warranty indemnity programs.

To link to Beijing East Linden, please click HERE

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M·CAM Executive Chairman delivers Plenary Address at Third infoDev Global Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Brazil

Date:  Tue, 2009-10-27

M·CAM Executive Chairman delivers Plenary Address at Third infoDev Global Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Brazil

October 27, 2009 – Florianopolis, Brazil –– Dr. David Martin joins The Honorable Luiz Henrique da Sliveira, Governor of Santa Catarina State, Brazil in the opening Plenary Address at the combined XIX Brazilian National Seminar on Science Parks and Business Incubation and the Third infoDev Global Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship assembly. This event, jointly sponsored by infoDev, World Bank, International Finance Corporation, Brazil’s Ministry of Science and Technology, SEBRAE, and ANPROTEC, convenes over 1,000 senior finance, economics, and business development leaders in a dialogue about effective enablement of innovation in the global market.

Dr. Martin’s address will focus on the re–alignment of innovation resources for the creation of ethical finance and market opportunities. Highlighting the need to deploy significant unused and underdeveloped innovations from around the world drawn from the Global Innovation Commons, awareness will be broadened on unique tools for development which enable unprecedented market engagement and enterprise acceleration.

Also at this event, M·CAM will officially unveil its Inaugural Global Innovation Commons which is being launched in a deployment partnership with infoDev. This is a compilation of hundreds of thousands of innovations which are available in the public domain due to patent expiration, abandonment, disallowance, or applicant failure to seek protection within global markets. In the fields of water, carbon–alternative energy, food and agriculture, and public health, the Global Innovation Commons serves as an immediate asset for any development or procurement effort on the planet. Using this Open Source Innovation Commons, entrepreneurs and policy makers can experience freedom to commercialize technologies which have been restricted from market access by abuses of the patent system.

In the Global Innovation Commons, all innovation artifacts (patents, research publications, government or industry sponsored research reports, and technology procurement records) have been assembled and reviewed for their legal standing in every country on Earth. These innovation artifacts have been compiled so that jurisdictions of enforcement are easily assessed to avoid any infringement in any jurisdiction. This enables a business or government to know what can be developed for domestic use only, for limited export, or for general export. Wherever possible, using abandoned patents, global freedom-to-commercialize positions are identified for unrestricted commercial use and deployment.

Each innovation artifact, together with its jurisdiction(s) of enforcement is displayed so that the user can identify the innovator, owner of record, and any other pertinent information about the innovation. Using the Global Innovation Commons, one can immediately identify both zones for commercial development and use and those zones where active patent enforcement may blockade an Open–Source derived product or service. In the image below, one can see that the country highlighted in red (the United States) is the only jurisdiction where this patent is protected. This means that all other countries are free to use the information contained in this patent with the exception of creating an infringement in the United States.

To link to Conference, please click HERE

To link to Global Innovation Commons, please click HERE

To link to Dr. David Martin’s speech, please click HERE

M·CAM Papua New Guinea Interns Lecture at UVA Engineering School

Date:  Tue, 2009-10-13

M·CAM Papua New Guinea Interns Lecture at UVA Engineering School

October 13, 2009 –– M·CAM summer interns Caitlin Boyd and Katie Martin presented the Heritable Innovation Trust framework and experience to two classes at the University of Virginia’s Engineering school today. Presenting the legal and experiential framework for Heritable Innovation Trusts, their presentation included student engagement in actual case work on integrated Heritable Innovation in global market strategies. Their presentations included lectures to two classes: Useful Knowledge and its Role in the Local and Global Community; and, Development on the Ground. For more information about the UVA international development engineering program, please visit: HERE

David Martin Presents New Funding Models at 2009 Automotive Summit – Slides Updated

Date:  Fri, 2009-10-09

David Martin Presents New Funding Models at 2009 Automotive Summit – Slides Updated

October 9, 2009 –– M·CAM Executive Chairman Dr. David Martin will be addressing the 2009 Automotive Summit “Sustainability, Opportunity, and Inclusion” at Detroit’s Motor City Hotel. Growing out of M·CAM’s unprecedented work on developing economic strategies to address the U.S. automotive industry suppliers’ capital access challenges, this presentation will highlight M·CAM’s Innovation Optimization finance models. In a time when considerable volatility exists throughout the U.S. manufacturing sectors, leveraging innovation and structuring innovation optimized credit solutions is frequently ignored. With its commitment to innovating in times of extreme challenge and aligned with its commitment to assist those who are frequently overlooked, this presentation – sponsored by the RainbowPUSH Coalition – will be targeted towards minority and women owned enterprises throughout the automotive industry.

For more information, please click HERE

Full Presentation

M·CAM’s David Martin named to Climate Prosperity Alliance Executive Board

Date:  Fri, 2009-10-02

M·CAM’s David Martin named to Climate Prosperity Alliance Executive Board

October 2, 2009 –– Dr. David Martin has been asked to serve on the Executive Board of the Climate Prosperity initiative coordinated by the Global Urban Development organization. The Global Climate Prosperity Agreement –– “The One Trillion Dollar Deal” –– can become the worldwide game–changer that will demonstrate the positive path forward for human civilization in the 21st century, namely the peaceful transition from the current globally unsustainable economy to an advanced technology–driven and environmentally sustainable industrialized society. Key private sector executives are organizing this completely voluntary, market–oriented, public–private investment and development strategy whereby corporations, financial institutions, insurance companies, pension funds, equity investment funds, and others will commit to invest one trillion dollars in developing countries over the next decade to build a new and modern infrastructure based entirely on renewable energy and clean technologies, including plug–in electric vehicles and “smart” and “super” electric grids. These investments and related projects will be supplemented and enhanced by additional funds, tax incentives, and regulatory policy support from governments, along with funds that will come from international donor agencies, official development assistance, and private philanthropy. The United Nations and World Bank, including various UN agencies and regional development banks, can play a key role in enabling these investments to succeed.

The Global Climate Prosperity Agreement will help achieve the Millennium Development Goals in developing countries, by raising living standards and promoting sustainable economic and employment growth and sustainable business and community development through innovation, efficiency, and conservation in the use and reuse of all natural and human resources. It will benefit developing and developed nations alike, generating a dynamic upward cycle of sustainable economic prosperity, job creation, and income growth worldwide, while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions, through increased production and distribution of renewable energy and clean technologies that optimize overall resource efficiency. Under Climate Prosperity, economic livelihoods and well–being, quality of life, public health and safety, and peace and security, will improve for billions of people in every place throughout the world. It will revive the global economy from its current market recession, stimulate massive long–term employment and income growth, and protect the economy and environment from resource supply shortages, catastrophic climate change, and other major threats and challenges.

For more information, HERE

When Green Meets Gold – Green Economy Pension Paradox

Date:  Mon, 2009-09-28

When Green Meets Gold – Green Economy Pension Paradox

September 28, 2009 – David Martin PhD., Executive Chairman of M·CAM Inc (www.m-cam.com) – the international leader in innovation finance and trade–returns to ZOOM’D for a further riveting look at the relationship between the world’s growing green economy and the current global system of finance in a show entitled “When Green Meets Gold.” David reveals realities of the financial system to be aware of, describes the underbelly of inertia and barriers that complicate responses to climate change, and points to a view of positive movement that showcases potential, not gloom and doom. The global financial crises may have a silver lining–offering opportunities not before seen at scale and around which engaged leadership across society can be mobilized. This ZOOM’D segment initiates explicit emphasis on visions for a desirable future–which extend beyond the polarities, doomsday clamor, and fear that pervades much of the dialogue going on within this era of extraordinary change.

To Listen to the show, please click HERE

M·CAM Financial Risk Modeling Highlighted in Futurist Publication

Date:  Tue, 2009-09-08

M·CAM Financial Risk Modeling Highlighted in Futurist Publication

The Futurist – September–October 2009. A New End, A New Beginning by John L. Petersen.

Excerpt:

“Predicting the future is a fool’s errand. It is fraught with so much complexity and uncertainty that the best one can do with integrity is to array potential alternatives – scenarios – across the horizon, and then try to think about what might be done if one of those alternative worlds materializes.

Scenario planning has certainly been an effective discipline, helping many organizations to imagine potentialities that probably otherwise wouldn’t have shown up in their field of view. But as I facilitate organizations going through these exercises, the little, nagging voice in the back of my head is not asking, “What is the array of possible futures?” Rather, it is always wondering, “What is the future really going to be?” We want concreteness. We want predictions.

My colleague David Martin outlined the financial dominoes that were going to fall in a talk at The Arlington Institute in July 2006. Implicit in his treatise is the collapse of the U.S. and global financial systems, but again, it’s one thing to hear such views and quite another to really believe them.”

For the complete article, click HERE