[C3.] Trying to Cash In on Patents A number of patent boutiques are popping up, hoping to help large companies transfer idle patents into royalties or arrange technology swaps.
Unlike ipValue and others, which help large companies transmute idle patents into royalties or arrange technology swaps, Dr. Poltorak's company specializes in helping cash-strapped independent inventors pursue their patent claims against the big guys.
There has clearly been a technology swap, though, and MediaMax is now using the Nirvanix service to provide the back end of its storage product.
But the technology for swapping sensory information is largely the effort of Dr. Paul Bach-y-Rita, a neuroscientist in the University of Wisconsin Medical School's orthopedics and rehabilitation department.
If a character uses a mobile phone inside a game, the technology can swap the brand and model of the phone depending on which country the player is in.
The company cites Bump, a technology to swap information between smartphones by tapping them together, which is used in PayPal's iPhone app, allowing people to "bump" iPhones to transfer money (the app was downloaded more than one million times in the first three weeks it was out).
An application network allows business to easily experiment with new technology — mixing, matching and swapping out technologies as needed — to build better customer experiences and create new revenue channels.
Apple Computer Inc. has sued the Microsoft Corporation, asserting that Microsoft went beyond the bounds of a technology-swap agreement in developing certain aspects of its Windows user interface.
More often, the plaintiff will drop the suit after negotiating some type of royalty deal or technology-swap with the defendant.
In a Time-Technology Swap-Rotation model, students rotate on a fixed schedule between self-paced digital instruction and face-to-face learning with a teacher.
