The first-ever satellite office for the United States Patent and Trademark Office will open in July. Here's what it means for Detroit. When David Kappos took over the United States Patent and Trademark Office in 2009, he faced a seemingly insurmountable task: The office was dealing with a backlog of more than 750,000 patent applications, with an average wait time of three-to-four years.
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When you have a stand-out employee, is increasing pay and benefits enough? Dear Norm, I own food-tour companies in 11 cities.
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ADHD isn t just kids being kids.
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Want to hire top-tier young talent for your lower-profile business? Don't think you can just show up on campus senior year and compete, warns one small company.
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Children living near DuPont’s plant in West Virginia are exposed to much higher concentrations of an industrial chemical than their mothers, according to a newly published study. [More]
Read More »The Family Sabbatical
Extended breaks are wonderful things, unless the spouse and kids have other plans. A few years ago, my husband, Gary, instituted a two-month paid sabbatical for anyone who has worked at least five years at Stonyfield Farm.
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With his two-year-old website, Exclusively.In, Sunjay Guleria is hoping that American consumers are ready for Mumbai chic fashion. Aneesh Agarwaal, Payal Singhal, Pam Mehta. To fashionistas in India, those names are the equivalent of Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, and Donna Karan.
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It's one of America's fastest-growing and most innovative markets. Here's how one California company tapped it. Like most law -abiding citizens, Peggy Cross never expected to find herself in a penitentiary—let alone a prison riot
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If you're resolved to grow your business bigger and faster this year, take a lesson from my first entrepreneurial endeavor. I was recently reminded of my first entrepreneurial venture and thought that sharing some of the lessons would be a helpful way to start the new year
Read More »4 Things Your Start-up Needs to Do This Year
If you're resolved to grow your business bigger and faster this year, take a lesson from my first entrepreneurial endeavor. I was recently reminded of my first entrepreneurial venture and thought that sharing some of the lessons would be a helpful way to start the new year.
Read More »4 Things Your Start-up Needs to Do This Year
If you're resolved to grow your business bigger and faster this year, take a lesson from my first entrepreneurial endeavor. I was recently reminded of my first entrepreneurial venture and thought that sharing some of the lessons would be a helpful way to start the new year.
Read More »4 Things Your Start-up Needs to Do This Year
If you're resolved to grow your business bigger and faster this year, take a lesson from my first entrepreneurial endeavor. I was recently reminded of my first entrepreneurial venture and thought that sharing some of the lessons would be a helpful way to start the new year. One semester in college I won a fellowship that included a very small stipend to defray the cost of living in Washington, D.C., so I could be a congressional intern.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Not to pick up electrons, but tweezers made of electrons.
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By Virginia Gewin of Nature magazine Nicotine causes changes in gene regulation that enhance the brain's subsequent response to cocaine. [More]
Read More »The Bay Bank Tries To Create A Market For Conservation
The economic value of ecosystems has been calculated as greater than the global gross national product. In the Chesapeake Bay, one bank is creating value and saving wetlands, by making that value a reality.
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