Articles of Interest
Intellectual Property: Patent or Padlock: Patents and Trade Secrets Form the Heart of an Effective IP Strategy
The intellectual property (IP) of a company is often its core asset. Acquiring, protecting, and enforcing IP involves decisions at the highest levels of the company, and IP commands a significant portion of the company's resources. For most life sciences companies, patents are usually considered to be the principle IP asset. In practice, however, these companies usually have extensive know-how, most often kept as trade secrets. If a direct comparison could be made, a typical life-sciences company probably keeps more than two-thirds of its proprietary information in the form of trade secrets. In early stage companies, particularly in relatively new technology areas such as nanotechnology, the proportion of trade secrets to patents is much higher.Read the entire article here: 
NRC-CISTI Introduces Pay Per Article Service
Ever searched endlessly on the Web trying to find the full-text article you need? The new Pay Per Article service offered by NRC-CISTI, the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, can help. Pay Per Article allows any researcher to search a database of more than 11 million articles and pay by credit card to view and print those selected. No pre-registration, user name or password required.Read the entire article here.
Is Just-In-Case Replacing Just-In-Time?
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States and Canadian governments have implemented a number of joint and unilateral border security policies. These include programs to fast-track pre-approved cargo and to require that advance notice of cargo contents be sent to border officials. There have also been changes to infrastructure and staffing. New border policies continue to be announced.Read the entire article here: 
The Innovation Rules
By Steve Strauss | American Express OPEN ForumDec 09, 2009
About five years ago I wrote what I thought was a really great book. No, it didn’t sell nearly as well as some of my other books, but we have all had that experience haven’t we – we have a product we think will be hot that turns out to be, well, not so hot?
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