M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on Mobile Commerce Framework v Groupon

Date:  Fri, 2011-11-11

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – November 11, 2011 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on Mobile Commerce Framework v Groupon.

Every so often, an unsuspecting company becomes ensnared in the patent world, sometimes unwittingly. Like a saber tooth tiger blissfully wandering into the La Brea tar pits, its inaugural foray into this ferocious world can lead to becoming lunch or, in some cases, infect them to become perpetrators downstream. Fresh from Groupon’s IPO, the fangs are coming out”¦ and there’s more fangs than mouths.

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 Mobile Commerce Framework v Groupon can be found HERE.

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on Intellectual Ventures v Nikon

Date:  Fri, 2011-11-04

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – November 4, 2011 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on Intellectual Ventures v Nikon.

As a companion to yesterday’s report, where we lay out the seriousness of non-operating patent licensing entities’ exploitive effects on South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan’s GDP, this analysis drives home the point that the countries in question have an opportunity to stop the abuse of both their companies and their own GDP. For example, let us consider the patents asserted in Intellectual Venture’s recent suit against Nikon to highlight the opportunity that, if these countries banded together to finance reexamination, companies in these countries – either defendants or those with licensing agreements with IV – could likely prevail in invalidation of IV patents using their own portfolios.

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 Intellectual Ventures v Nikon can be found HERE.

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on a Knowledge Tariff in Asia – A Letter to Korea, Taiwan and Japan

Date:  Thu, 2011-11-03

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – November 3, 2011 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on a Knowledge Tariff in Asia – A Letter to Korea, Taiwan and Japan.

While we here at M·CAM often try to see the lighter side of intellectual property issues when we perform our Patently Obvious® analyses, when as much as twenty percent of an entire country’s GDP is being exploited, we take it very seriously. We’ve decided to address a missive to the governments of South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, and the reason is simple. They’ve been the target of abusive behavior and they have a mechanism to stop the abuse.

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 a Knowledge Tariff in Asia – A Letter to Korea, Taiwan and Japan can be found HERE.

M·CAM, Inc. featured on Techdirt

Date:  Wed, 2011-11-02

November 2, 2011- M·CAM’s Patently Obvious Report featuring the Apple Inc’s “Slide-to-Unlock” Patents was featured on TechDirt today.

“The M-CAM document linked above looks deeply at the patents in question, noting how the claims in Apple’s original patent were completely rejected three separate times. For whatever reason, the USPTO refuses to really issue final rejections. So those desiring patents, can just keep adjusting and adjusting. The document also is left wondering how come the original claims were rejected while the final claims somehow made it through, noting that the changes seem meaningless.”

Read the TechDirt Article HERE

Read the Patently Obvious Report HERE

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on Apple Inc’s “Slide-to-Unlock” Patents

Date:  Fri, 2011-10-28

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – October 28, 2011 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on Apple Inc’s “Slide-to-Unlock” Patents

Apple seems to have taken two bites at… well, the apple, with its latest slide-to-unlock patent. Why “two bites”? Because it’s a reference to double patenting, an illegal abuse of the patent system. You know, what USPTO patent examiner, Mr. Andres Gutierrez, said before he rejected every claim Apple was applying for, three separate times, in this issued continuation (read: we want to get credit for an earlier patent’s priority date) of another slide-to-unlock patent.

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 Apple Inc’s “Slide-to-Unlock” patents can be found HERE.

The Global Innovation Commons Releases Around The World Featured Item: Colorectal Cancer

Date:  Tue, 2011-10-25

October 25, 2011- The Global Innovation Commons released another Around The World Featured Item: Colorectal Cancer.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is facing a difficult problem. Apart from breast and cervical cancer, colorectal cancer is slowly taking its toll towards the younger generation in (the Kingdom of) Saudi Arabia. Being the third most common cancer in the world, this disease is affecting the young population to a greater extent with an advanced stage presentation.*

“Colorectal Cancer (CRC), Colon Cancer and Cancer of the Rectum usually begin as a small polyp. While most colon polyps are benign, some do become cancerous. Colon cancer symptoms may include a change in bowel habits or bleeding, but usually colon cancer strikes without symptoms. That’s why it’s important to get a colon cancer screening test, such as a colonoscopy. If the cancer is found early, the doctor can use surgery, radiation, and/or chemotherapy for effective treatment.**”

In this set of Global Innovation Commons open source technologies, solutions to CRC Surgery, Antibody Compositions, Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, Drug – Gene Therapy, and Organic Compounds – Peptides are provided.

Click to view the Global Innovation Commons Sets on Colorectal Cancer HERE

Guest Collaborator:

We at the Global Innovation Commons are please to welcome our highly regarded friend, Dr. Mohammad Azhar Aziz, as a guest collaborator on this initiative. Dr. Aziz intends to establish a Center for Familial Colorectal Cancer at the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center National Guard Health Affairs in Riyadh, Kingdom Saudi Arabia. The aim of the Center is to create scientific awareness for hereditary colorectal cancer in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The proposal follows below:

Proposal for the Development of a Center for Familial Colorectal Cancer to create scientific awareness for hereditary colorectal cancer counselling, genetic diagnostics, surveillance and treatment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

A better understanding of the molecular basis of hereditary colorectal cancer syndromes yields profound consequences for the diagnosis, surveillance and prophylactic treatment of (pre)malignant neoplastic lesions. Sequence analysis of the underlying genes for these tumours and the detection of disease-causing genetic alterations in a proband enable predictive testing for individuals at risk within an affected family.

The Dresden Center for Familial Colorectal Cancer has been since 1995 active in the study of the molecular basis of several Colorectal Cancer Syndromes. Together with human geneticists and clinicians, we, the members of the Department of Surgical Research, have screened 1316 patients with hereditary tumours and performed molecular diagnostics for various syndromes such as Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome (Gene: STK11), Cowden Syndrome (PTEN), and Familial Adenomatous Polyposis coli (APC, MUTYH). The most frequent cause of familial colorectal cancer remains HNPCC or Lynch Syndrome caused by mutations of Mismatch Repair (MMR) Genes MSH2, MLH1, MSH6 andPMS2. We have identified germline mutations in 224 families and have performed predictive diagnostics in 296 relatives of probands. A HNPCC specific surveillance is highly recommended for probands who are carriers of MMR-deficient tumors or mutation carriers and their relatives. Our prospective data on the efficacy of colonoscopic surveillance in individuals with HNPCC suggest that annual colonoscopic surveillance is recommended for individuals with HNPCC.

In addition, we have contributed five families to worldwide reports of more than 70 families with biallelic mutations in MMR genes. Most of those patients are the offspring of a consanguineous marriage. Tumor spectrum of patients with biallelic germline mutations is different from HNPCC.

The necessity for proper assessment of the risk of familial colorectal cancer has become increasingly evident. In Germany alone, this inherited condition remains largely unrecognized in up to 3,000 colorectal cancer patients per year, while the benefit of surveillance and screening in at risk patients and families has been clearly documented. Further recommendations based on predictive molecular testing such as prophylactic treatment, require critical evidence-based evaluation.

Based on the experience of the Dresden Center for Familial Colorectal Cancer, we intend to establish a Center for Familial Colorectal Cancer at the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center National Guard Health Affairs in Riyadh, Kingdom Saudi Arabia. Our aim is to create scientific awareness for hereditary colorectal cancer in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Objective

The objective of the proposed mission is to establish a Center for Familial Colorectal Cancer at the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center National Guard Health Affairs in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We aim at creating scientific awareness for hereditary colorectal cancer prescreening in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

This mission will be accomplished in close cooperation between the Center for Familial Colorectal Dresden at the University of Dresden, Germany (Prof. Dr. med. Hans K. Schackert, Chief Executiveof the Center for Familial Colorectal Cancer Dresden) and the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center National Guard Health Affairs in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Dr. Mohammad Azhar Aziz, PhD, Associate Research Scientist).

The German organization GTZ provides this proposal.

(Source-The Global Innovation Commons)

*http://saudilife.net/health/10169-colorectal-cancer-in-saudi-arabia

**http://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/default.htm

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on Amazon and the Microsoft Android Licensing Program

Date:  Fri, 2011-10-21

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – October 21, 2011 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on Amazon and the Microsoft Android Licensing Program

Trick or treat, Amazon? Microsoft recently signed an IP licensing agreement with Quanta, Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet manufacturer. Does Amazon have anything to worry about? Yes! Because Microsoft has plenty of company.

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 Amazon and the Microsoft Android Licensing Program can be found HERE.

Presidio to host “An Evening with Global Entrepreneur Dr. David Martin”

Date:  Tue, 2011-10-18

Tonight at PresdioSpace in San Francisco, Edward West and Presidio will be hosting Dr. David Martin. The event hopes to create an opportunity for both students and faculty at Presidio to connect with Dr. Martin and gain exposure to M·CAM’s important work.

“David Martin is an iconoclastic thinking, and approaches sustainability from a radical, structural, systemic-change perspective. He is a modern-day globe-trotting renaissance man: while the company he founded company specializes in semantic web technology for unstructured data analysis, you might also find him helping to broker peace in a civil war over mining rights in Papua New Guinea, uncovering Wall Street corruption, or setting up entrepreneurship and innovation programs for schoolchildren in rural India.

Throughout all of the work he does runs the thread of identifying key forces at play in a global system and strategically intervening to create tipping points which shift the system toward sustainability.” (Source: PresidioSpace)

Dr. David Martin Discusses Technology Patent Fights

Date:  Tue, 2011-10-18

Yesterday, Dr. David Martin, chairman and founder of M-CAM Inc., talked about patent fights among technology companies and Google Inc.’s proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. Martin spoke with Cory Johnson at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg West.” Bloomberg’s Emily Chang also speaks. (Source: Bloomberg)

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on InterDigital

Date:  Fri, 2011-10-14

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – October 14, 2011 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on InterDigital

For the investors not familiar with the patent troll business model, we suggest paying close attention to the future activities of InterDigital. And for those who feel called to march in parks across the country, we suggest sharpening their critique of a system where the Patent System is unconstitutionally hijacked by speculators who use wrongfully granted patents to pick the taxpayers collective pockets.

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 InterDigital can be found HERE.

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on the Department of Justice review of Google and Motorola Mobility

Date:  Fri, 2011-10-07

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – October 7, 2011 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on the Department of Justice review of Google and Motorola Mobility

The U.S. Department of Justice is looking at the Google Motorola Mobility deal through a blindfold. Google’s not building a monopoly with this acquisition but there’s a much more ominous problem that everyone’s missing”¦

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 DOJ review of Google and Motorola Mobility can be found HERE.

M·CAM Inc. Featured in Managing Intellectual Property Magazine: “It’s The Chips, Not The Cards”

Date:  Wed, 2011-10-05

CHARLOTTESVILLE- Chairman Dr. David Martin was quoted by Karen Bolipata in Managing Intellectual Property Magazine in regards to the Google-Motorola Patent Portfolio.

“David Martin, founder and chairman of asset management firm M·CAM, says Google overpaid. “I think this was plainly a backlash from the perceived loss of the Nortel portfolio”, he says.”

The article discusses Google and their smartphone patents. Read the entire article HERE

M·CAM Inc. on NPR’s All Things Considered

Date:  Mon, 2011-10-03

Pulled from Laura Sydell’s Article titled “Microsoft, Google Tussle Over Android Phone Patents“

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on the intellectual property strategy of Oracle

Date:  Thu, 2011-09-29

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – September 29, 2011 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on the intellectual property strategy of Oracle.

“Oracle and Google Create Open Source Environment for Android Platform””¦could be the headline that would put billions of dollars into their respective pockets. The current toxic litigation strategy will only benchmark the opening bid for future trolls harming both firms. A tactical play that leverages Sun’s real innovation (rather than Wang’s aging patent estate) can rid the mobile platform market of frivolous patent litigation risk and create a market where the companies and consumers win.

The M·CAM Patently Obvious® report on Oracle can be found HERE.

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

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on the intellectual property analysis of Kodak

Date:  Fri, 2011-09-23

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – September 23, 2011 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on Intellectual Property Analysis of Kodak

A commercial analysis, using the M·CAM proprietary unstructured data mining algorithm, was performed on the digital imaging portion of the Kodak patent portfolio, which revealed at least 31% of the portfolio are impaired and unlikely to be of commercial value. This impairment comes from patent filing carelessness and other breakdowns in patent quality – not necessarily from a lack of innovation. Further, an analysis was performed using the M·CAM DOORS™ platform on the commercial ecosystem surrounding the digital imaging patents, which identified the top twenty entities that may find these properties to be of interest.

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 Kodak’s patent portfolio can be found HERE.

M·CAM Inc. releases the 2nd volume of “The Navigare”

Date:  Fri, 2011-09-23

M·CAM Inc. releases the 2nd volume of “The Navigare”. This volume highlights the coupious exciting projects and events that transpired both in the M·CAM office and around the globe including building a greenhouse in Mongolia and a full report from our Heritable Innovation Trust interns! Be sure to check it out as an electronic magazine or as a PDF!

M·CAM Inc.Newsletter

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M·CAM Inc. Participates in United Way’s 2011 Day of Caring

Date:  Wed, 2011-09-21

On September 21, M·CAM Inc, took to the streets to “spread the well-being”. 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 by helping the Old Crozet School of Arts clean up two large garden beds, paint a classroom and a row of lockers.

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 Intellectual Ventures v. Canon et al

Date:  Fri, 2011-09-16

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – September 16, 2011 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on Intellectual Ventures v. Canon et al

Canon and Olympus hold a substantial amount of precedent innovation impacting the nine patents that have been asserted against them recently by Intellectual Ventures. In addition, Intellectual Ventures’ investors hold prior art and precedent innovation which, if disclosed, could vastly alter the enforceability of IV’s patents in suit.

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 Intellectual Ventures v. Canon et al can be found HERE.

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on WiLAN Inc. and MOSAID Technologies

Date:  Thu, 2011-09-08

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – September 8, 2011 – M·CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious® report today on WiLAN Inc. and MOSAID Technologies

WiLAN has launched a C$480 million hostile takeover bid for MOSAID Technologies. While WiLAN’s management has described the potential transaction as creating a “very valuable” company, their combined patent portfolios warrant close scrutiny. Over half of MOSAID’s portfolio and nearly sixty percent of WiLAN’s portfolio appear to be impaired, a combination of which runs the risk of creating a whole that has less value than its individual parts.

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 WiLAN Inc. and MOSAID Technologies can be found HERE.

M·CAM, Inc. releases Patently Obvious® on the Global Agriopoly (Part 2)

Date:  Thu, 2011-09-01

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – September 1, 2011 – M·CAM, Inc. released part 2 its Patently Obvious® report today on the Global Agriopoly

Mismanagement of innovation lies at the heart of food scarcity. Instead of a new Green Revolution based on proprietary restrictions, the use of abundant open source technology can transform a broken “agriopolic” system that is spreading into Africa.

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 Global Agriopoly (part 2) can be found HERE.