Patent purity of high-tech complexes

Patent Strategies of Small Danish High-tech Firms

The increasingly strategic use of patents, and their importance for competitive advantage, pose special challenges for small high-tech firms. This paper seeks to add to our understanding of the strategic and economic effects of patents by exploring why small high-tech firms take out patents – and why not – and how these choices are linked to these firms’ broader business and technology strategi...

High Tech versus Low Tech Training

The United States Marine Corps has some of the most advanced weapons systems and training in the world, yet they make extensive use of “low tech” training tools. Sand table exercises and tactical decision games are used by Marines all over the world, at sea and on land. Although the U.S. Department of Defense has a nearly $18 billion annual training budget, the Marines choose to teach decision ...

The Patent Policy Debate in the High–Tech World: A Literature Review

Patents have great public visibility these days; questions and opinions abound on the fairness of the patent system, the validity of large amount of patents, and the rights of the “haves” versus the “have nots”. There are questions around the fundamental nature of the patent system – whether patents are protecting and fostering innovation, or whether they have begun to hurt innovation. In this ...

robust control of a high-purity disttilation column using synthesis

High purity amphotericin B.

OBJECTIVES Amphotericin B (AmB) is a drug of choice for treatment of disseminated fungal infections, but its use is often associated with severe adverse effects. Our observation that generic formulations of AmB contain multiple polyene components led us to propose that removal of other polyenes would yield a high purity AmB (AmBHP) with an improved therapeutic index. METHODS To test that prem...