Dr. Martin Gives Inaugural Address to PSG Tech E-360 Forum

Date:  Tue, 2009-09-08

Dr. Martin Gives Inaugural Address to PSG Tech E–360 Forum

Coimbatore, India – September 8, 2009 –– Dr. David Martin will give the Inaugural address to the PSG Tech national entrepreneur’s forum on September 12, 2009. This two day conference brings together student entrepreneurs from across India to discuss how to engage in constructive, value accretive ventures which build both economic and social opportunities for the country and the world. Established in 1951 buy the PSG & Sons Charities Trust, PSG Tech is one of India’s leading entrepreneurship institutions of higher learning. Based in Coimbatore, this college enrolls approximately 25,000 students in over 40 disciplines.

For more information, please visit HERE

M·CAM’s Long-standing Client Sells 100,000th Product

Date:  Wed, 2009-09-02

M·CAM’s Long–standing Client Sells 100,000th Product

Soluble Systems Celebrates Sales Milestone

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia – September 2, 2009 –– On August 18th, Soluble Systems, LLC crossed a major milestone by selling its 100,000th TheraGauze™ dressing. In just its second year of sales, the biotech start–up company’s sales continue to grow as TheraGauze™ becomes available in more wound care centers, veterans medical centers and hospitals across the country.

“We are very proud to accomplish this important sales goal,” said Allan Staley, President and Co–Founder of Soluble Systems LLC. “Since its inception, this company’s mission has been to enhance healing in order to save limbs and lives, and it is rewarding to know that 100,000 TheraGauze™ dressings have been used to help heal more than 5,000 patients in pursuit of that mission.”

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M·CAM Opens the Flow of Open Source Innovation with the India Water Project Global Technology Assessment™

Date:  Fri, 2009-08-21

M·CAM Opens the Flow of Open Source Innovation with the India Water Project Global Technology Assessment™

Charlottesville, Virginia – August 21, 2009 –– The world’s first open source Innovation Commons program on water technology and innovation has been launched today. An estimated 1.6 million children die each year from lack of water. Over 2.5 billion people do not have access to potable water. And all of these statistics have been unchanged while tens of thousands of innovations on water have been patented – many never put to use…until today.

M·CAM has released the world’s first Innovation Commons for Water under the India Water Project Global Technology Assessment. This project, targeting India, is in direct response to the Government of India’s leadership in making clean water a national priority and mandating that its agencies and ministries resolve the challenges facing India with all haste. M·CAM wants to assist in this life–saving endeavor. This free platform allows users from around the world to tap into the creativity of thousands of innovators who have developed solutions for the world’s water challenges but have been unable to take them to scale. Now, everyone will have equal access to Open Source innovations and know–how derived from the most creative minds around the world.

Water is life. Like many other decisions taken by humanity during its evolution, many companies and individuals have sought and received patents covering one or more processes involved with the extraction and capture, transmission, purification, testing, distribution and end use of water. The Water for the World Global Technology Assessment™, or GTA, provides a compendium of thousands of innovations in water related technologies. This Water GTA discloses innovations which are in the public domain in much, if not all, of the world. Either by expiration, abandonment (meaning that maintenance fees have not been paid) or failure to file in certain jurisdictions, the innovations disclosed herein belong to the world.

The information in this GTA is compiled from over 15,000 companies, research institutions and individuals in over 120 countries. In their protection, the world was precluded from their use and now, they can be recycled for the benefit of all humanity. Billions of dollars of research and development are represented in this GTA and special interest groups, entrepreneurs, NGOs and governments should insist that, before any precious resources are spent on R&D or procurement of water solutions, a review of the open source is mandatory so as not to waste precious time and resources on replicating what is already done and now is free.

For more information, please visit: http://water.m-cam.com

For questions or media inquiries, please send an e-mail to info@m-cam.com

David Martin Opens 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Business Incubation in Coimbatore, India

Date:  Thu, 2009-08-06

David Martin Opens 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Business Incubation in Coimbatore, India

Coimbatore, India – August 6, 2009 –– Today, M·CAM Executive Chairman Dr. David Martin opens the 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Business Incubation sponsored by the World Bank’s infoDev and the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India. Dr. Martin’s keynote address covers three themes around the opportunities presented to entrepreneurs who seek to find responses to the current global economic situation. In his address, he focuses on:

Innovation Literacy – insuring that innovators and the private sector are adequately informed of the paradigms of promoting innovation;

Global Innovative Output – insuring that the focus on innovation is on customers, clients, and procurement rather than on abusive investment capital; and,

Innovation Recycling – the ability to use latent, abandoned, or repurposed innovation that has been ignored or buried in incumbent economies to fuel new enterprise options in the rest of the world.

Models of transformative engagement (in contrast to ill–conceived frameworks from the WTO and OECD promoted programs) are presented including the Heritable Innovation Trust scheme, the Peace Trade program and other forms of ethical engagement.

M·CAM’s Open Source Environmental Innovation Commons Introduced at 2020 Climate Leadership Conference in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Date:  Wed, 2009-08-05

M·CAM’s Open Source Environmental Innovation Commons Introduced at 2020 Climate Leadership Conference in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

August 5, 2009 – Belo Horizonte, Brazil –– Growing out of the work that was done for the Green EFA presentation to the EU Parliament last years, M·CAM has profiled over 30,000 innovations from over 122 countries which are open source solutions for the challenges facing the global climate dynamics. Derived from expired, abandoned, or inadequately protected patents and other innovation disclosures, M·CAM has been working with a number of groups through its Innovation Literacy division to disseminate information that is vital to the environmental campaign. As part of the State of the World Forum and the Global Transition Initiative, Dr. Martin introduced this program to the 2020 Climate Leadership Conference in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and will be continuing to support a collaborative, open source program to insure that solutions to climate challenges are made available to interested parties around the world. For more information, please click HERE

M·CAM Discusses Heritable Innovation Trust with Australia’s Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission in Sydney.

Date:  Wed, 2009-08-05

M·CAM Discusses Heritable Innovation Trust with Australia’s Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission in Sydney.

Sydney, Australia – August 5, 2009 –– M·CAM’s Executive Chairman, Dr. David E. Martin sat down with PITIC’s Chris Brimble for an interview discussing the recently released Heritable Innovation Trust. PITIC and M·CAM are both deeply committed to finding new models of engagement between the Pacific Island nations and the global marketplace and continue to explore ways of jointly pursuing these objectives.

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M·CAM Supported Research at U.C. Berkeley Presented at National Bureau of Economic Research meeting in Cambridge.

Date:  Wed, 2009-07-22

M·CAM Supported Research at U.C. Berkeley Presented at National Bureau of Economic Research meeting in Cambridge.

University of California, Berkeley; Charlottesville, Virginia – July 22, 2009 –– UC Berkeley economists Zhen Lei and Brian Wright have published a seminal paper examining the issue of patent quality supported, in part, by a research collaboration with M·CAM. Why Weak Patents? Rational Ignorance or Pro–”Customer” Tilt? is an examination of both human and machine metrics of patent quality showing profound discrepancies in patent issuing between the United States, Europe, and machine intelligence criteria. “Our study suggests that the rules and procedures of the USPTO have forced examiners to grant many of these weak applications,” they conclude.

M·CAM Delivers World’s First Heritable Innovation Trust to Government and Communities in Papua New Guinea

Date:  Wed, 2009-07-22

M·CAM Delivers World’s First Heritable Innovation Trust to Government and Communities in Papua New Guinea

July 22, 2009 – Rabaul, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea and Charlottesville, Virginia –– Offering the first alternative framework to the World Trade Organization’s long–delayed efforts to promote and protect indigenous and heritable knowledge, M·CAM will release the world’s first Heritable Innovation Trust to the community elders and elected officials in East New Britain today. While the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat (PIFS) nations are debating accession to and implementation of the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreements which provide no statutory protection for any local knowledge, the Heritable Innovation Trust framework is now deployed and will be stewarded by the communities in East New Britain.

The Heritable Innovation Trust framework was written by M·CAM in consultation with communities around the world with specific input from local experts in Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, and Papua New Guinea. It was published in the International Bar Association’s journal Convergence (Heritable Knowledge Framework and the Development of Communal Innovation Trusts: An Ethical Framework for Development, Stewardship, and Trade.” Volume 5, Number 1,). Twenty three pieces of Heritable Knowledge are chronicled in the first Heritable Innovation Trust document covering items including organic food and beverage containers, construction materials and processes and organic remedies.

Please download the full Trust Document by clicking on the the link below.

M·CAM Expands Inquiry of New Guinea Gold Financial Reporting and Local Landowner Rights

Date:  Thu, 2009-06-18

M·CAM Expands Inquiry of New Guinea Gold (TXS–V: NGG) Financial Reporting and Local Landowner Rights

June 18, 2009 – Kokopo, East New Britain; Charlottesville, Virginia –– The National has reported on the most recent press conference held in which M·CAM distributed a series of financial statements and reports issued by New Guinea Gold Corporation regarding the Sinivit ‘Wild Dog’ gold mining operation. In the wake of increasing scrutiny, New Guinea Gold refuted earlier press reports about financial conditions published in the PNG Post Courier thereby calling into question the completeness or accuracy of their shareholder disclosures. M·CAM has taken an increased interest in evaluating the financial disclosures in a number of mining operations around the world to assess whether corporate public disclosures match other public sources of information.

The following is a brief summary from the article in The National.

ENB concern for “wild dog” welcomed

By EVAH BANIGE

AN international environmental consultant has welcomed the East New Britain provincial government”s response to a report he presented last month regarding the impact of mining operations at the Wild Dog mine in Sinivit.

Dr David Martin said he was happy that the government had now taken steps to respond to his presentation and showed concern over the matter. However, Dr Martin clarified that the reports he presented were not from his company or landowners, but were reports published by New Guinea Gold for their shareholders that had also been placed on the company”s corporate website for verification.

For a complete view of the article HERE

David Martin Interviewed on VoiceAmerica Business with John D. Schmidt Regarding US and Global Financial Market Challenges and Opportunities

Date:  Mon, 2009-06-15

David Martin Interviewed on VoiceAmerica Business with John D. Schmidt Regarding US and Global Financial Market Challenges and Opportunities

June 15, 2009 – Charlottesville, VA –&#8211 Recognizing Financial and Dollar Realities. This show takes a sobering look at the financial crises and elements of the path forward that must be considered and anticipated, including implications on personal and societal wealth. It explores in particular the US situation and the dollar, and its relationship to major global players and the global economic and financial system at large. David’s deep base of experience and knowledge of complexities of the financial world will help establish an unbiased view of reality, and further contribute to painting a big picture of the whole that ZOOM’D is helping to clarify in the early segments of the series. In this interview, David discusses the role of innovation outsourcing, debt–based over consumption, untested economic assumptions and a variety of issues. He then offers explicit recommendations for individuals and policymakers with respect to dealing with a more integral, humane global market of the future. To hear the one hour show or download to MP3 or iPod, click HERE

M·CAM Open Source Innovation Highlighted in Publication

Date:  Mon, 2009-06-15

M·CAM Open Source Innovation Highlighted in Publication

The Netherlands – June 15, 2009 – – In their recently published book The Future of a Truly Stable Economic Order, banking executive and Chief Risk Officer for Rabobank’s Schretlen & Co, Jan J. Ph. M. de Dood and Marieke de Vrij discuss the role of cooperative innovation and highlight M·CAM’s work in identifying the accessibility of open source innovations for most issues confronting society.

“Working on the basis of cooperation will lead to faster, better and simpler solutions for the problems faced by society. David Martin, CEO of M·CAM, a finance company with great knowledge of intellectual property and patents, thinks that we already posses everything we need to solve the world’s problems. It is only a case of organizing it and energetically bringing the necessary elements together. However, most patents are filed not for the purpose of using technology for everyone, but to prevent their use, especially by possible competitors. They are protected or buried. This is not only counterproductive, but is also an injustice to all those involved in the process of technical research and development, in whatever way and for however long. As stated earlier, working cooperatively ensures everyone is honoured, recognized and rewarded for his or her contribution. This can only be done on the basis of equality (related to effort) and not using the maximization of profits for one’s own benefit alone. No empirical evidence exists showing that restrictive property models achieve greater value than preferential purchase or vendor networks. In fact, the successes frequently showcased to endorse patent schemes most often reference businesses who grew through preferential government purchasing rather than patent enforcement. It is likely that the future will be more productive if we adopt financial incentives for explicit collaboration rather than maintaining isolationist restrictive property paradigms.” (Page 63-64).

World Bank and IFC’s infoDev Publish Dr. Martin’s Briefing Paper of Technology Transfer and Commercialization

Date:  Wed, 2009-06-10

World Bank and IFC’s infoDev Publish Dr. Martin’s Briefing Paper of Technology Transfer and Commercialization

June 10, 2009 – Washington DC; Charlottesville, VA –– In an on–going effort to build relevance in international efforts to stimulate the engagement of creativity around the world, the World Bank and International Finance Corporation”s infoDev has published a briefing paper on technology transfer and commercialization. The following is an excerpt from the paper which can be downloaded in its entirety HERE.

Health, agriculture, water and food security technology transfer require a depth of moral engagement frequently considered (with regret) post facto. There is a growing awareness in these fields, and in some conversations about environmental technologies, that the exclusionary practices arising from exclusive licenses and restrictive intellectual property paradigms, jeopardize the health and life of the planet and its inhabitants. Therefore, considerations beyond short–term monopolistic benefit are becoming increasingly important when considering the nature and mode of technology transfer in these areas.

In all industries, the plethora of abandoned and expired patents in public domain, make experience in the past 25 years increasingly irrelevant as most innovations now must incorporate an element of ‘innovation recycling’ in which latent and public domain components must be included and acknowledged in the pursuit of the alleged ‘new’. The reckless use of intellectual property in the fields of information technology has lead to what some refer to as ‘chilling effects’ on innovation while the European Patent Office executives have recently expropriated the term ‘Global Warming of Patents’ signifying the overwhelming volume of indistinguishable proprietary claims which make transfer dubious at best. The point of this problem is that all too often, the actual identity of the party or parties qualified to represent a transferable interest is impossible to establish.

As a result, in the above referenced fields, technology transfer focused on education and capacity building is far more attainable and defensible than the attempt to perpetuate monopoly business models.

While undesirable in its underlying impetus, the technology reparations from the German Industrial and State complex at the end of the Second World War serve as the greatest single technology transfer moment of the last century benefiting industries including materials science, aerospace, digital communications and data storage, medicine, chemicals, and structural engineering and design to name a few.

M·CAM Partner Pacific Spices at the Cutting Edge of Geographic Indication IPR with “Single Origin” Chocolate

Date:  Wed, 2009-06-10

M·CAM Partner Pacific Spices at the Cutting Edge of Geographic Indication IPR with “Single Origin” Chocolate

June 10, 2009 – Sydney, Australia; Vunakaun, Papua New Guinea; Charlottesville, Virginia

Induna Cocoa shows the importance of talking to your buyers

There is no doubt that communication between exporter and importer is important. Prices must be quoted correctly, addresses swapped accurately, time frames met, etc. But there is much more to it than that. Both sides must have an in depth understanding of the entire supply chain and be willing to cooperate throughout.

The best way to demonstrate these facts of export life is through the development of PNG “single origin” chocolate.

Good communication and coordination was required at all points, from the community of growers in Induna (East New Britain Province, PNG) that produced the cocoa beans, through to the exporter, PNG’s Pacific Spices and ultimately, the client, Zokoko Chocolate in Australia.

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Dr. David Martin delivers plenary address to Globalization for the Common Good conference in Chicago

Date:  Mon, 2009-06-01

Dr. David Martin delivers plenary address to Globalization for the Common Good conference in Chicago

Chicago, IL – June 1, 2009 –– Dr. David Martin, Executive Chairman of M·CAM delivered a plenary address at the Globalization for the Common Good conference hosted at Loyola University in Chicago today. Addressing the “Currency of the Commons”, Dr. Martin’s presentation reviewed the implicit assumptions in the use of currency within economic systems and addressed the intangible elements of those assumptions as they impact financial transformation. During this speech, Dr. Martin highlighted M·CAM’s recently launched “Peace Trade” initiative – managed in Papua New Guinea through its Innovation Literacy program. For a complete text of the speech, please download the following..

ElectraWatch, Inc. Wins 2009 “Rocket Award” for Rapid Progress Toward Commercialization

Date:  Thu, 2009-05-28

ElectraWatch, Inc. Wins 2009 “Rocket Award” for Rapid Progress Toward Commercialization

Charlottesville, VA – May 28, 2009 –– M·CAM congratulates ElectraWatch, Inc., founded in 2007, for receiving the 2009 “Rocket Award” at a May 21 gala hosted by the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council. The award is presented to “…the enterprise that has moved with noteworthy speed from concept toward commercialization, through the development of a new technology, product, or service.”

ElectraWatch, through CEO Ryan Dunn, has been a client of M·CAM since 2008, and the firms have collaborated on developing commercialization pathways for the corrosion–sensing technologies deployed by ElectraWatch. ElectraWatch technologies have broad applications and markets in both military and commercial sectors, including naval and civilian ships, marine infrastructure, aircraft, bridges, pipelines, and other land–based structures and vehicles.

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M·CAM Assists Papua New Guinea Communities in Responding to Climate Change Initiatives

Date:  Wed, 2009-05-27

M·CAM Assists Papua New Guinea Communities in Responding to Climate Change Initiatives

Rabaul, East New Britain, PNG – May 27, 2009 –– M·CAM has expanded its work on establishing financial engagement models which take into account fully integrated values derived from ecological resources. In response to carbon trading schemes which fail to consider the majority of local and community values, M·CAM has established a framework for Ecological Stewardship Credit models which integrate emissions management with land, water, and vitality management for local communities throughout the Province. This work was recently featured in the PNG Post–Courier and a copy of the article can be seen here.

M·CAM Partner Public Patent Foundation Supports Constitutional Challenge to Breast Cancer Gene Patents

Date:  Tue, 2009-05-12

M·CAM Partner Public Patent Foundation Supports Constitutional Challenge to Breast Cancer Gene Patents

Charlottesville VA, New York NY – May 12, 2009 –– M·CAM’s longstanding partner, the Public Patent Foundation, announced today that it has joined the ACLU in challenging the patents covering critical genes and genetic mutations associated with breast cancer.

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Newest form of Intangible Asset Designation – Heritable Knowledge Trust – Published in the International Bar Association’s Journal

Date:  Mon, 2009-05-11

Newest form of Intangible Asset Designation – Heritable Knowledge Trust – Published in the International Bar Association’s Journal

Charlottesville, VA. – May 11, 2009 –– M·CAM Executive Chairman Dr. David Martin’s recommendations for the newest form of intangible asset have been published in the International Bar Association’s (IBA) journal Convergence April 2009 edition. This breakthrough innovation in the legal framework to support the stewardship of indigenous knowledge, artistic expression, and communal practice is the first, non–property right based proposal to deal with the ethical management of this frequently exploited content. Drawing on contract law precedent, the Heritable Knowledge Communal Innovation Trust model creates the legal framework for countries with communal rights that have been largely ignored or marginalized by the World Trade Organization’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). This work was informed by consultations with the leadership of the Independent State of Samoa; the Kingdom of Tonga; the Provincial Government of East New Britain Province and the regional Government of the Gazelle Administrative District, Papua New Guinea; the Government of the Republic of the Fiji Islands; together with the personal contributions of Ms. Theresa Arek; Mrs. Alise Stunnenberg; Mrs. Margaret Malua; Mr. Va’atu’itu’i Apete Meredith; Mr. Tony Weller; Mr. Julian Webb; Ms. Valerie D’Costa; and, Mr. Seth Ayers. While the final recommendation does not represent the individual views of these interests necessarily, their contributions were invaluable and are inextricable to the framework which emerged.

M·CAM Executive Chairman Dr. Martin Joins James Quilligan and David Bollier in the Globalization for the Common Good 2009 Chicago Conference – June 1-2, 2009

Date:  Fri, 2009-04-10

M·CAM Executive Chairman Dr. Martin Joins James Quilligan and David Bollier in the Globalization for the Common Good 2009 Chicago Conference – June 1–2, 2009

Charlottesville, VA – April 10, 2009 ––In an on–going effort to discuss ways in which fundamental transformation can be manifest in the changing global market, J. Quilligan, D. Bollier and D. Martin will be facilitating a plenary dialogue entitled: “Commons Rising: The Rediscovery of our Common Wealth.” During this discussion, M·CAM’s pioneering work in Heritable Trusts will be discussed along with the growing global interest in a more integral redefinition of value in the global community.

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M·CAM Investigation into Financial Records of New Guinea Gold Corporation Aids in MRA Inquiry

Date:  Thu, 2009-04-09

M·CAM Investigation into Financial Records of New Guinea Gold Corporation Aids in MRA Inquiry

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea – April 9, 2009 The following are excerpts from the Papua New Guinea Post Courier article published on April 9, 2009.

MRA QUERIES WORK OF SINIVIT GOLD MINERS

PNG Post Courier

The state has raised serious concerns about the performance of the Sinivit (Wild Dog) gold mine project in East New Britain Province.

The mine is being developed by Queensland based New Guinea Gold Corporation (NGGC). In a letter dated October 20th, 2008 to the chairman NGGC, Mineral Resources Authority (MRA) expressed concern that the company was not achieving its approved forecasted annual gold production figures. Among the reasons highlighted was the poor and ineffective on–site mining processing technique being used by the company, which MRA said did not meet standard mining practices.

MRA also highlighted that the use of vats to leach out gold using cyanide was a safety and environmental concern.

MRA Managing Director Mr Kepas Wali said in the letter that as director of the mining act under which NGGC was issued its license, MRA was concerned about the low gold recovery and production, poor mine scheduling and unavailability of key technical services personnel on-site for mine planning purposes. The letter said this resulted in the mine not fulfilling the requirements of the approved proposal for development and the projects agreements and the wider community and stakeholders’ expectations.

MRA’s letter confirmed concerns that had been repeatedly echoed by landowners and other concerned citizens as well as observations by a visiting American, Dr. David Martin of imminent environmental damage due to bad mining practices.

Following his observations and search of NGGC’s financial standing Dr Martin informed ENB authorities that it was alleged that NGGC was “lying” to both the ENB Provincial Government and the National Government about its mining operations by falsifying reports of its activities. Dr Martin, who toured the province in August last year on arrangements through the Pacific Islands Forum, personally visited the mine site when there was a strike by workers.