This morning, Congresswoman Kathy Hochul held an Economic Action Summit at the University of Buffalo. The purpose of the summit was to get information about certain programs to small businesses. Also, small businesses had an opportunity to meet larger companies and to express some of their business concerns with the Congresswoman. My business concern is [...]
Last night, I attended a crafting event. This isn’t something that I would normally do, which is exactly why I wanted to attend. I stumbled across the event on Facebook when I somehow linked into the Western New York Works for Women page. I checked it out and saw an upcoming crafting [...]
Many of us recall the recent “black out” day where several websites, including Google and Wikipedia decided to go “black” for the day in protest of pending legislation in both Houses of The Congress.
The following opinion piece, found here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/opinion/steal-this-column.html discusses Jimmy Wales’s (of Wikipedia) reasoning for getting involved in the blackout. While Wales does [...]
So, this morning’s presentation started out with Mayor Brown introducing all the local dignitaries. He then introduced Robin Schimminger. Schimminger made a joke that the black cloud that used to hang over the Hudson is believed to have been moved somewhere over the Potomac. Schimminger then introduced Mark Polancarz who mentioned that last year we [...]
Last night, I went to a tour at the Heritage DiscoveRY Center. The center is located on Lee Street in South Buffalo off of South Park and by the Honeywell facility over there. The tour was for the Buffalo Engineering Society. I went and learned so much about what is going on [...]
Many people have been paying attention to our fair elected officials and where they would come down with respect to supporting or not supporting the dual Acts collectively known as SOPA and PROTECT IP.
As a background for the people that haven’t heard of these Acts, let me explain. As many know, the advent of [...]
By now, most people have probably heard that Kodak has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. This type of protection means that Kodak is looking for help with reorganizing their company. Recently, of course, much has been made of Kodak’s vast patent portfolio and how some of it might be monetized.
In particular, Kodak has [...]
Often, we have individual inventors come in with great new ideas, but often no real way to produce or manufacture or commercialize their invention. As a result, we have spent quite some time trying to find resources for individual inventors to offer their inventions for sale. One such resource fell into our email box earlier [...]
This morning, I attended a CLE program with the above title. The event was at the Buffalo Club, which means that I had to dress up and look fancy or else they would kick me out!!
This CLE was a broad overview of sports law and contracts and licensing issues. Sports shows up in every [...]
Yesterday, I attended a Green Drinks event. Green Drinks is an event put on by the Update Green Business Network, which is part of the Center for Environmental Information. For more information, a link can be found here. Essentially, Green Drinks is a networking event to connect individuals interested in sustainability. I [...]
