Dr. David Martin to Present at the Women in Housing and Finance Brown Bag Lunch (11/14/2012)

Date:  Thu, 2012-11-08

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA & Washington D.C. – On Wednesday, November 14, 2012, M·CAM Chairman David Martin will be presenting at the Women in Housing and Finance Brown Bag Lunch event. Other speakers include James Loder, SVP & Chief Underwriting Officer Complex Situational Risk Insurance (CSI), and Brian O’Hara, former CEO of XL Capital Ltd.The topic for the event is: “Attracting Tier 1 Capital to Banks by Bringing Liquidity to Innovation Assets.”

Topic Background: America’s innovation assets — patents, trademarks, copyrights, permits, licenses, contract rights, etc. — are completely encumbered within senior secured bank loans and yet none of that asset value is counted by regulators when they look at bank capital reserves.

The mispricing of risk around these innovation assets has created a market opportunity for highly rated counterparties to provide liquidity to banks. At the event, we will discuss such a liquidity bridging mechanism. As evidenced by transactions like the sale of Nortel’s patents for $4.5 billion out of bankruptcy and Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion “primarily for their patents”, there is significant latent value for which banks, and their job creating corporate borrowers, are not benefiting.

Speaker Bios:

Dr. David E. Martin, Founder and Chairman of M·CAM Inc., the international leader in innovation finance, trade, and intangible asset finance. Dr. Martin is a Batten Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.

James Loder, SVP & Chief Underwriting Officer Complex Situational Risk Insurance (CSI), leads XL Group’s CSI team. He focuses on the creation of novel solutions for complex and unique non-traditional insurance risks and transactional and contingent liability exposures.

Brian O’Hara, former CEO of XL Capital Ltd., now known as XL Group plc. He served as Chairman of XL’s Board of Directors from 2008 to 2009. He is a prior Chairman of the Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers (ABIR) and is a Director/member of the Executive Committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce.

For questions on the program content, please contact Ken Dabkowski at (434) 979-7240 x366 or kad@m-cam.com. Please call the WHF office with any other questions.

Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Location: Pepper Hamilton, LLP, 600 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005

Directions: Metro Center (Red/Blue/Orange)

Cost: Complimentary, WHF Members Only. Not a member? Call WHF at 703-683-4742 and we would be happy to assist in getting you signed up for membership.

RSVP: Please RSVP no later than 12:00 pm, Tuesday, November 13, 2012.

Dr. David Martin to Present at OECD Conference (11/26 – 11/27/2012)

Date:  Wed, 2012-10-31

Dr. David Martin has been invited to speak at the Knowledge Networks and Markets OECD conference which is going to be held in Paris November 26 and 27, 2012. The conference will bring together experts from around the world to discuss how knowledge networks and markets are arrangements which govern the transfer of various types of knowledge, including intellectual property, know-how, software code or databases, between autonomous parties across the economy. Dr. Martin will be participating in Session II – Bringing Innovations onto The Market and the Role of Knowledge Networks and Markets. The session will highlight how knowledge marketplaces may help ideas get onto the market, by means of facilitating the interaction of innovators and entrepreneurs.

To read more about the conference, please visit:http://www.oecd.org/innovation/innovationinsciencetechnologyandindustry/…

Dr. David Martin will Participate in the International Breakthrough Energy Movement Conference (11/9 – 11/11/2012)

Date:  Tue, 2012-10-30

Dr. David Martin has been invited and will participate in the International Breakthrough Energy Movement (BEM) Conference November 9 – 11, 2012 hosted in Amsterdam. The conference will address challenges humanity faces that are systemic and grounded in archaic systems and structures in the areas of energy, economy, government, social, and environmental. Traditional ways of interacting within the world have become increasingly unsustainable and unviable, and are in need of transformation. The good news is humanity has reached a tipping point. The collective consciousness is awakening with a passionate desire to replace disharmony with harmony, scarcity with abundance, harm done with good deeds. Dr. Marin’s presentation at the BEM conference is entitled “Quantum Disentanglement: Emancipating the Economics from Edison and Einstein to Everyone” and he will unveil the anatomy of the incumbent systems of economic controls and present a practical plan to an ethical framework for Phase and State Coherent Economical Power at Human Scale. To learn more about the event and other participants, please visit the Breakthrough Energy Movement website: http://globalbem.com/

M·CAM, Inc. releases Special Bulletin Patently Obvious® on A123 Systems, Inc.

Date:  Fri, 2012-10-26

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – October 26, 2012 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on A123 Systems, Inc.

On Tuesday, October 16, 2012, A123 Systems, Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection and announced plans to sell its automotive battery business to Johnson Controls, Inc. for $125 million. The bankruptcy filing has brought serious public policy and financial issues to the forefront. M·CAM is providing information and analysis on those matters.

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.

The M·CAM Patently Obvious® report on A123 Systems, Inc. can be found HERE.

Dr. David Martin’s Interview on Bloomberg (10/24/2012)

Date:  Thu, 2012-10-25

On May 6, 2011, M·CAM published a Patently Obvious™ Report on the “Intellectual Property Analysis of Apple Inc.’s U.S. Patent No. 7,469,381” Link: http://bit.ly/RVUTe1. This report called into question the enforceablilty of Apple’s ‘381 patent naming the same patent that M·CAM had identified – – U.S. Patent No. 7,786,975 [‘975], among others, as potentially uncited prior art. As reported in yesterday’s New York Times (http://nyti.ms/QXnlv8) and elsewhere, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has decided in an initial ruling that this patent should never have been granted, confirming the ‘975 patent as limiting prior art. “Claims 1-5, 9-13, and 15-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(b) as being anticipated” by the ‘975 patent.

Last night, Dr. David Martin appeared on Bloomberg with Bloomberg West’s Cory Johnson. Dr. Martin and Mr. Johnson discussed the patent decision and what can be expected to unfold next in this smartphone war. See the video here: http://bloom.bg/VpIVdD

What does this mean? Using M·CAM’s proprietary financial underwriting systems, M·CAM was able to identify the precise prior art which may have an adverse impact on the appeal of the $1.05 Billion judgement. More amazingly, M·CAM was able to identify this a full 1.5 years before the judgement came in!

What does this mean for YOU? M·CAM’s risk management and underwriting systems can be deployed to identify uncorrelated information and measure the material impact it will likely have on the value of your current and anticipated investments. For more information, please contact us here: info@m-cam.com or 434-979-7240 or visit our website http://www.m-cam.com

M·CAM’s 2011 Contrarian Call on Apple’s ‘381 Patent Validated By USPTO

Date:  Wed, 2012-10-24

On May 6, 2011, M·CAM published a Patently Obvious™ Report on the “Intellectual Property Analysis of Apple Inc.’s U.S. Patent No. 7,469,381” Link: http://bit.ly/RVUTe1. This report called into question the enforceablilty of Apple’s ‘381 patent and identified M·CAM’s lead challenge, U.S. Patent No. 7,786,975, among others, as potentially uncited prior art. As reported in today’s New York Times (http://nyti.ms/QXnlv8) and elsewhere, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has decided in an initial ruling that this patent should never have been granted, confirming the ‘975 patent as limiting prior art. “Claims 1-5, 9-13, and 15-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(b) as being anticipated” by the ‘975 patent. The potential invalidation of patent ‘381 could have a significant effect on the billion dollar Apple/Samsung award as well as future litigation.

Dr. David Martin will be appearing LIVE on Bloomberg tonight (6:10 PM EST) with Bloomberg West’s Cory Johnson. Dr. Martin and Mr. Johnson will be discussing the patent decision and what can be expected to unfold next in this smartphone war. Be sure to tune in here: http://www.bloomberg.com/tv/

M·CAM Hosted Mongolian Delegation Featured on Charlottesville’s NBC 29

Date:  Mon, 2012-10-22

Over the weekend, Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj’s Delegation visited Charlottesville to learn more about U.S. presidential campaigns. While they were in town, NBC Affiliate Channel 29 had the opportunity to interview Battsetseg Shagdar, Presidential Advisor and Elbegdorj Institute Think Tank Chair, about democratic progress and transparency in elections. The Mongolian Delegation will be leaving the area today. They will take home information gathered from campaign and government offices, local historical sites, and businesses. After leaving Charlottesville, the Delegation will continue on to Maryland and the District of Columbia. The next Mongolian presidential election is in May 2013. M·CAM’s relationship with Mongolia spans several years, including participating in the President of Mongolia’s International Roundtable on Fair Mineral Development and our strategic partnership with M·ICP (Mongolia Innovation Commons Partners).

To view the interview, please visit: http://www.nbc29.com/story/19875716/mongolian-delegation-visits-cville-t…

M·CAM, Inc. hosts the President of Mongolia Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj’s Delegation in Charlottesville (October 19 – October 21, 2012)

Date:  Fri, 2012-10-19

This weekend, M·CAM, Inc. will host high-level delegation representing the President of Mongolia Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj’s policy EBI think tank in Charlottesville, Virginia. M·CAM and the Mongolian Delegation from the EBI Think Tank Institute will be visiting the Charlottesville/Albemarle County headquarters of Democratic candidate President Barack Obama, Republican candidate Mitt Romney, and Fifth District Congressman, Robert Hurt to learn more about the U.S. electoral process. M·CAM’s relationship with Mongolia spans several years, including participating in the President of Mongolia’s International Roundtable on Fair Mineral Development, our strategic partnership with M·ICP (Mongolia Innovation Commons Partners), Dr. David Martin’s Key Note Presentation at the EBI Think Tank Institute, and our most recent collaboration, the greenhouse created in northwest Mongolia from local recycled Mongolian glass was highlighted in several area news outlets including The Daily Progress, Charlottesville Newsplex, and the Nelson County Life Magazine. M·CAM is elated to be reunited with our companions, our colleagues, and our friends from Mongolia. For additional information, please contact David Pratt at djp@m-cam.com or inquire (434)979-7240, extension 350.

Dr. David Martin Advises The Renaissance Project: A Global Platform Dedicated to Creativity, Culture and Technology

Date:  Wed, 2012-10-17

Dr. David Martin and the talented founding, creative team behind the Renaissance Project have been collaborating over the course of the last year and a half and are proud to announce the launch of The Renaissance Project. The Renaissance Project is a global network dedicated to the celebration of emergent creativity, culture, technology, story, and the common bond that links us all; our humanity. In an effort to unify cities around the United Stats that are busting with digital creativity, but oppressed of the creative human spirit in motion, The Renaissance Project will be working with 35 filmmakers from 35 U.S. cities in 2013. The Project will be working with filmmakers to produce 70 experimental micro-documentary films, each championing a story of emergent creativity, shared humanity, and a new global aesthetic. To learn more about The Renaissance Project and how you can be supportive, visit their website: http://therenaissanceproject.com/

M·CAM, Inc. and Dr. David Martin featured in the latest issue of the MLEX magazine titled “The Patent Armory”

Date:  Tue, 2012-10-16

Last week M·CAM, Inc. President, David Pratt and the M·CAM Analyst team were featured in a front page story of the New York Times titled “The Patent, Used as a Sword”. This week, M·CAM, Inc. and Dr. David Martin make an appearance in yet another article comparing today’s patent system to an arsenal of dangerous weapons; coincidence? We don’t think so.

Dr. David Martin teamed up with Juliane von Reppert-Bismark, MLEX Magazine Managing Editor, in the latest issue of the MLEX magazine titled The Patent Armory. In Dr. Martin’s report titled “Paper Weight”, he addresses the out-of-control patent system as it continues to overload the U.S. court system and federal agencies with complex decisions on the digital economy, which if not handled properly, could trigger a horrific backlash. To read the full MLEX Magazine article, please visit HERE.

Dr. David Martin to Speak at TEDx (Delray Beach, May 3, 2013)

Date:  Wed, 2012-10-10

For more information about the event, please visit TEDx

M·CAM Inc. Lands Front Page Article in The New York Times

Date:  Sun, 2012-10-07

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA & New York, NY – M·CAM President David Pratt and the M·CAM Analyst team are featured in the front page New York Times article written by Charles Duhigg and Steve Lohr titled “The Patent, Used as a Sword”. This in-depth investigation focuses on the technology sector patent wars and highlights systemic patent quality issues, high litigation costs, and the practices used to stifle innovation.

Regarding Apple, the investigation’s key protagonist, “Apple got another warhead in its arsenal, but there’s no big invention here,” said David J. Pratt, President of M·CAM”¦who analyzed the application for The Times.” See more here: The Patent, Used as a Sword

Dr. David Martin Featured in The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State

Date:  Wed, 2012-10-03

Dr. David Martin’s essay entitled “Emancipating Innovation Enclosures: The Global Innovation Commons” was recently published in the the English version of an anthology of essays, The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State, by David Bollier. Dr. Martin’s essay discusses the various ways in which patents merely represent social contracts that manage market scarcity and thereby profit when used as litigation weapons. Mr. Bollier and Silke Helfrich, a German colleague, had been working on the translation of the book for nearly a year and a half and it’s release comes with great anticipation and excitement.

“Never before have so many different international voices about the commons been brought together in one volume. The Wealth of the Commons consists of 73 essays by a diverse roster of international activists, academics and project leaders. It consists of descriptions of specific commons innovations, essays on the theory and economics of commons, accounts of different types of enclosures around the world, and much else.”

We are between an old world that no longer works and a new one which is struggling to be born. Surrounded by centralized hierarchies on the one hand and predatory markets on the other, people around the globe are searching for alternatives. The Wealth of the Commons explains how millions of commoners have organized to defend their forests and fisheries, reinvent local food systems, organize productive online communities, reclaim public spaces, improve environmental stewardship and re-imagine the very meaning of “progress” and governance. In short: how they’ve built their commons. The hope is that the book will help pave the pathway for more robust discussions in political policy and activist circles which are beyond market and state as the only feasible solutions.

For more information or where to purchase The Wealth of the Commons, please visit https://store.collectivecopies.com/store/show/001.

M·CAM Participates in Advertising Week (New York, New York)

Date:  Tue, 2012-10-02

Today Dr. David Martin is to speak at two (2) events for Advertising Week. Advertising Week is the world’s premier annual gathering of marketing and communication leaders. Born from creative roots in 2004, Advertising Week now draws from the client, media, and wider cultural communities with a distinctive focus on key business drivers which shape and influence the global industry.

Dr. David Martin will be a special, surprise guest speaker during the Inaugural CMO Congress event at Advertising Week held at Wolfgang’s Steakhouse in Times Square. The CMO Congress Advertising Week event developed to understand technology and how the consumer ecosystem is evolving. From there, Dr. Martin will be speaking at the Liberty Theater with Amusement Park Entertainment about Amusement Park Q (APQ). APQ is a revolutionary partnership between M·CAM, Inc. and Amusement Park Entertainment where the two businesses that represent opposite realms of reality unite to leverage unprecedented creativity and mind-bending, best-in-class analytics to map out the ecosystem, threats and opportunities around the impulses of innovation, identify and develop IP-based product offerings to provide unique opportunities, and structure ‘freedom to operate’ for brands at the intersection of creative content and technology.

M·CAM, Inc. releases the 6th edition of The Navigare

Date:  Mon, 2012-10-01

M·CAM, Inc. releases the 6th edition of The Navigare today! Inside this exciting volume readers will find updates from the most recent trip to Papua New Guinea, “hot off the press” press coverage, highlights from our Integral Accounting collaboration with the Reinvent Me Foundation, our IT team gives a full report as we transition to new operating systems, and new to our newsletter, a spotlight on a local business; GERRYRIGS, LCC.

Going forward we are going to be featuring a segment which highlights Companies we see as leaving a positive footprint in our world. If you are interested in featuring your business or nominating someone you know in our next newsletter, please contact Denise Holman at dlh@m-cam.com.

Download your own copy HERE

View online magazine copy HERE

M·CAM Releases 2012 Heritable Innovation Trust Document

Date:  Wed, 2012-09-26

September 26, 2012 – East New Britian, Paupa New Guinea; Charlottesville, Virginia — M·CAM Releases 2012 Heritable Innovation Trust Document. Similar to the 2011 document, the 2012 document is organized in an encyclopedia format, to compile all of the information collected over the past three years into one integrated document.

The 2012 document includes a look into a new community, Navunaram as well as eight new trust items. This year’s efforts could not have been completed with out the contributions of our interns, Julia Craig, Hector Feliciano-Ayala and Michael Venable as well as our Heritable Innovation Trust Coordinator, Katie Martin and our on-site partners Theresa Arek, Sharmayne Ryan, and Ian Sexton.

For more on the Heritable Innovation Trust, visit www.heritableinnovationtrust.org View the 2011 Heritable Innovation Trust Document HERE

M·CAM Inc. Participates in United Way’s 2012 Day of Caring

Date:  Wed, 2012-09-19

On September 19, M·CAM Inc, went out into the community to “spread the well-being” for a second year in a row. Along with a company wide goal of individual community engagement by each team member, M·CAM Inc. decided to participate in a group community engagement project through United Way’s Day of Caring. The group helped the Broadus Wood Elementary School in Earlysville, Virginia, clean an old storage container & tidy up the gardens in front of the school.

The Day of Caring was established in 1992 by the United Way-Thomas Jefferson Area to promote the spirit and value of volunteerism, increase the awareness of local human service agencies and schools, and demonstrate what people working together for the community’s good can accomplish. In 1999, the Day of Caring was renamed the United Way Laurence E. Richardson Day of Caring in honor of Larry Richardson, a long-time volunteer of the United Way and the community, and past president of the Charlottesville Broadcasting Company.

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on the Apple Samsung Verdict and the Jury Foreman

Date:  Thu, 2012-08-30

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA August 30, 2012 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on the Apple Samsung Verdict and the Jury Foreman

‘If this were my patent, could I defend it?’ was the question jury foreman, Velvin Hogan asked himself when considering the Apple Samsung patent infringement suit. On August 24th, 2012 a nine person jury reached the verdict which awarded Apple slightly over $1 billion in damages. This is a grievous miscarriage of justice in which Velvin played an active role. Velvin does not understand that novelty and obviousness are what determine patent validity. His public opining reinforces the widespread ignorance of the broken patent system and the myth of Apple’s innovation.

M·CAM’s Patently Obvious® is a weekly report providing visibility into potentially 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.

The M·CAM Patently Obvious® report on the Apple Samsung Verdict and the Jury Foreman can be found HERE.

Dr. David Martin Discusses Apple and Samsung on Bloomberg West

Date:  Fri, 2012-08-17

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA & SAN FRANCISCO, CA- Dr. David Martin will be on Bloomberg West today at 3pm PST/6pm EST discussing Apple and Samsung.

To view the interview: http://www.bloomberg.com/tv/shows/bloomberg-west/

Water Project Featured In Niuscope- “With Love From America”

Date:  Tue, 2012-08-14

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA & PAPUA NEW GUINEA- The water project sponsored by Aaron & Ruth Martin with support from M·CAM Inc. was featured in the Papua New Guinean magazine, Niuscope.

“Most people see a place for what it lacks rather than what it has and as a result of these preconditioned value judgments they overlook the fundamental values inherent in very human community.”

Read more from the article: http://www.m-cam.com/sites/www.m-cam.com/downloads/niuscope_png_article.pdf