SparkIP Opens Doors to Innovation and Invention.Introducing an Advanced Research and Commerce Platform for the Scientific Community VANCOUVER, British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography & ATLANTA -- SparkIP today unveiled its online intellectual property (IP) exchange, SparkIP.com, a critical destination that connects the scientific community and the information important to them. The company - founded by Rob Clark, dean Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, Kristina M. Johnson Kristina M. Johnson has been the Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University since 1999. She also serves as Director at Boston Scientific Corporation. Dr. Johnson received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. , provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at The Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University, mainly at Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins in 1867 had a group of his associates incorporated as the trustees of a university and a hospital, endowing each with $3.5 million. Daniel C. , and Tim Lenoir, Jenkins Chair in New Technology and Society at Duke University, and led by Ed Trimble, successful entrepreneur and former founder of EzGov, Inc - launched at the Licensing Executives Society (LES) Annual Meeting in Vancouver, October 14-18. The Innovative Power of SparkIP.com SparkIP.com combines research, commerce and community features into a single offering designed for scientists, corporations, universities, government labs, patent attorneys, and anyone performing scientific research. The site is visually rich, categorizing information into a fully-searchable innovation landscape of over 35,000 SparkClusters(TM), self-organizing and self-naming groups of patents and new inventions New Invention may refer to:
(2) A saved copy of a file before it is updated. " of the innovation universe presents information in context, allowing users to quickly gain insights on new technologies, inventors and organizations. And as new innovation occurs, SparkIP's landscape of SparkClusters will reorganize re·or·gan·ize v. re·or·gan·ized, re·or·gan·iz·ing, re·or·gan·iz·es v.tr. To organize again or anew. v.intr. To undergo or effect changes in organization. to reflect what is happening today and tomorrow. "SparkIP.com is designed to make information on IP and new innovation much more accessible than it has ever been before and to present that information in a context that gives the user interesting and actionable Giving sufficient legal grounds for a lawsuit; giving rise to a Cause of Action. An act, event, or occurrence is said to be actionable when there are legal grounds for basing a lawsuit on it. insights," says Ed Trimble, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of SparkIP. "Within this data-rich environment, we then allow universities, government labs, corporations or anyone with licensable IP to publish their inventions to a global audience. We believe that by combining research, commerce and community in a single destination designed for the broad scientific community, SparkIP.com can help to increase the pace of innovation around the world." Connecting Buyers and Sellers Today the marketplace for IP is built on a handful of isolated listing services, independent Web sites and a fragmented network of personal and institutional relationships. At the heart of SparkIP.com is a new type of marketplace where inventors and commercialization offices can broadly market new technologies to a worldwide audience of corporations, entrepreneurs and other acquirers of new technologies. These technologies are fully searchable and show up within the visual innovation landscape, giving potential acquirers the ability to easily find and assess new opportunities. Duke University, Georgia Tech, North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. State, and EPFL EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (French: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland) EPFL Enoch Pratt Free Library (Baltimore, Maryland) EPFL European Professional Football Leagues of Switzerland have all signed on as Foundation Customers for SparkIP.com and have begun listing their licensable technologies on the site. SparkIP plans to add hundreds of new "listings" each month, positioning SparkIP.com as the critical destination for anyone seeking to license and commercialize new innovation. To experience SparkIP.com or to find more information on the company, please visit www.SparkIP.com About SparkIP SparkIP is an intellectual property exchange improving the pace of innovation by connecting the scientific community and the information critical to them. By providing fully searchable intelligent access to patents, new technologies and the people that seek out innovation such as inventors, IP professionals, licensors and licensees, SparkIP is creating new markets and enabling relationships that support commerce and collaboration. The private, Atlanta-based company was founded by engineering visionaries Kristina M. Johnson, provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at Johns Hopkins Noun 1. Johns Hopkins - United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873) Hopkins 2. , Rob Clark, dean of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, and Tim Lenoir, Jenkins Chair in New Technology and Society at Duke University. The SparkIP team is led by Ed Trimble, former founder and CEO of EzGov, Inc. |
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