...When Patents Attack The podcast, “When Patents Attack” is about the patent process in the United States and why the program was initially developed. Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution authorizes the federal government to allow patents on inventions in order to inspire scientific and technical progress. The US Patent and Trademark Office defines a patent as "the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale or selling" a patented item. If anybody uses your idea you get paid, a patent makes it safe to share and innovate. However there are patent trolls out there. A patent troll is when companies don’t make any products, but go around suing other companies that do make products over supposed patent infringement. After listening to the podcast I think patent trolls slow innovation, make it harder for companies to grow, and hurt global competitiveness because of the fear of being sued. The podcast mentions Nathan Myhrvold and the company Intellectual Ventures. Peter Detkin states that the mission of Intellectual Ventures “is to help inventors bring great ideas into the world. That lot’s of inventors, they’re like great artists, brilliant but not brilliant at business. So their patents languish. IV gets their ideas into the hands of companies who’ll actually build what they’ve invented.” It’s ironic that Peter Detkin the guy who created the term patent troll is now a founder and vice chairman of Intellectual Ventures, because from what was in the interview...
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...Health Care Industry Today’s health care system is complex and very different from “what it used to be”. The America health care system has not only undergone drastic changes, but also continues to evolve. The spiraling cost of health in the United States of America is evidenced by both per capita expenditures, and also by measuring health care health care expenditures in relationship to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In 1960 the National Health Care Expenditures in billions was $26.9 and per capita was $141, but we can see the drastic difference that in 1996 the expenditures in billions was $1,035.1 and per capita was $ 3,708. With that information we can clearly see that the United States of America have the most expensive health care system in the world. The number of people in the population without health care is one of the primary concerns raised by advocates of health care reform. Multiple surveys indicate that the number of uninsured has fallen due to expanded Medicaid eligibility and health insurance exchanges established due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as PPACA or “Obamacare”. According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2012 there were 48.0 million people in the U.S. (15.4% of the population) who were without health insurance coverage. Non-citizens are more likely to be uninsured than citizens, with a 43.8% uninsured rate. For millions of working Americans, the industrial revolution changed the very nature of...
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...America Transformed HIS 110 June 13, 2011 Abstract Some individuals have a curious thought of how Americans built their society. In this reading the reader will understand a historic timeline from 1780-1850. Learning the important information during certain years and how they overcome each event. The Agricultural Revolution of Europe started in the 1700’s; it was widely spread throughout Europe and America by the 1800’s. The results of the revolution, was the farming processes became more efficient, and productive due to several inventions, and discoveries. The Agricultural processes became faster, and less manpower is required in the field, as a result the population from the countryside had no means of supporting themselves. They were forced to move into the urban cities in search of factory jobs. The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain during the 1700s. The term Industrial Revolution refers both to the changes that occurred and to the period itself. During the 1700s and early 1800s, great changes took place in the lives and labor of people in several parts of the world. These changes resulted from the development of industrialization and it started spreading to other parts of Europe and to North America in the early 1800s. By the mid-1800s, industrialization had become widespread in Western Europe and the northeastern United States. America Transformed In 1781 Peace Commission occurred and what it meant was Congress appoints a Peace Commission comprised...
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...physician-assisted suicide because it results in death from someone purposely doing something to the patient causing them to die; such as being injected with poison. Passive euthanasia is the withholding of a medical treatment for a patient, which is legal, but many come to be disagreed upon. Withholding food and water, turning off machines, and failing to resuscitate are prime examples of passive euthanasia (United States Physician Assisted Suicide Law Summary and Law Digest par. 1). There are currently three states that permit physician-assisted suicide, Washington and Oregon. On October 27, 1997, the Death with Dignity Act was passed in Oregon. The Death with Dignity Act states that an Oregonian that is terminally-ill has the right to voluntarily, self-administrate lethal medications with a prescription from their physician. On March 5, 2009, Washington passed the Death with Dignity Act and on December 31, 2009 Montana became the third state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. There is a list of requirements a patient must pass before being able to be considered to follow through with this enactment. A patient has to be diagnosed as a terminally-ill patient by two doctors, two requests from the patient has to be made; an oral and written...
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...Keynesian Economics, Helping the US Economy Keynesian philosophy states that in order to manage economic downturns, government intervention in the economy is imperative. It was Keynesian Economic Philosophy that kept America out of another depression during the Great Recession due to the fiscal and monetary stimulus (Seidman 32-53, 22p). By examining the government’s need for spending money on welfare, cutting taxes, regulating and monitoring the financial markets, and government spending on military, America sees how a Keynesian approach is a necessity. The American Government needs to continue using the Keynesian model in order to enhance the performance of the economy. Keynesian Philosophy provides government assisted programs to those who qualify. One form of assistance is Welfare. Welfare provides benefits and economic assistance to low or no income Americans. With the dismal economy, there are now over 100 million people on welfare according to the Census Bureau; and this doesn’t include those receiving Social Security or Medicare (GOPUSAStaff). Food Stamps are one of many divisions of welfare. The food stamps program, also known as the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), helps low or no income citizens buy food. There are over 46 million people on SNAP as of June, 2012 (Luhby). That is more than one in seven Americans and more than 25% of eligible Americans do not participate in the food stamps program. There are millions of low-income seniors struggling...
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...| The 2008-2009 Credit Crises Executive Summary The Great Depression was when America faced the worst economic catastrophe in history. It wasn’t until the nineties that the financial industry started to re-invent itself for the purpose of making more money. Banks became successful at modifying legislation and creating ventures that would profit investors. The level of risk involved with the securities produced was ignored. Initially, the securities that were built were not expected to fail. When the home loan industry began to breakdown it became clear that something needed to be done. Legislation that the financial industry was trying to avoid was necessary. The Dodd-Frank Act was enacted as a result. Introduction The financial industry is currently facing a number of challenges such as poor investment strategies, improper activities by lenders and poor ethical standards within investment companies. Over the last 3 years more than 200 financial institutions within the United States have ceased to exist because of the 2008-2009 credit crises. Restoring confidence in the financial environment has been an uphill battle since the credit crises began. Today banks that were not able to sustain operations are being acquired by others that are more stable which causes the long-standing institutions to become more risky. As a result the acquisitions are dramatically affecting the remaining banks and further weakening the finance industry. Banks have been searching...
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...Cover Page Student: Melissa Zell Lee Internet Technology, Marketing, and Security Bus 508 Professor: John Theodore November 22, 2011 Heartland Payment Systems is known for fair, fully disclosed pricing and empowering merchants who like to take control of payments processing costs. More than 11 million transactions are processed daily with over $80 billion transactions a year, making Heartland the 5th largest payment processor in the United States and 9th in the world (Heartland, 2011). However, a data breach occurred last year in 2010 for Heartland which compromised tens of millions of credit and debit card transactions. Such figures make the Heartland incident one of the largest data breaches ever reported. In this paper I will analyze Heartland’s business, marketing, and security strategies and their response to this security breach as well as propose new methods of security to prevent future occurrences. Heartland is available to merchants 24/7 with a full customer support team. Additionally, their E3 end-to-end encryption solution is designed to protect cardholder data throughout the lifecycle of a payments transaction which helps business owners improve data security and reduce the cost of PCI compliance. Heartland uses end-to-end encryption because other technologies such as point-to-point encryption do not protect the data after the card is authenticated which leaves payment account data vulnerable to thieves who can use the data for fraudulent activity...
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...The Technological Revolution on America Life Abstract: Future technologies will revolutionize life in the United States of America, and will affect the entire world population over time. Boldness, inevitability, and adaptability all led, or will lead, to the development of this issue. First, the paper will discuss how boldness, and only boldness, leads to accomplishments and boon. To succumb passively will not help achieve goals. Second, the paper will discuss the inevitability that technologies will advance due to human desire and how the want for profit is slaked. Lastly, the paper will cover how the world adapts to changing lifestyles and learn to utilize daunting revelations. It is unavoidable that society will advance, as it has done in the past, and humans will adapt to the changing life as known for decades. The book, Stranger in a Strange Land, written by Robert A. Heinland, as well as many other resourceful documents and sources, will assist in proving these points. Every person always seems to want the latest technology. This truth has existed for centuries and will never change in the future. With the invention of shovels, people wanted them because it was easier than digging with their hands. When cell phones were invented, people sought this new form of communication-on-the-go. When, in the book Stranger in a Strange Land, Valentine Michael Smith finds ways to levitate objects and make things disappear while standing twenty feet away, it is not a surprise...
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...The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, passed in 2011, stipulates a first-to-file rule, meaning the first to file a patent on an invention, regardless if this person invented the invention, receives the patent. Utility patents are valid for 20 years, and the patent term begins the day the patent application was first filed (Cheeseman 135). After the 20 years, the patent is no longer on the invention and it is released into the public domain, meaning anyone can produce or sell the invention (Boone 12 April 2018). For example, a person files for a patent on his or her invention on January 1st, 2018. The patent was granted to the person three years later. The term of the patent ends on January 1st,...
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...According to INAC, the term for Aboriginal peoples is defined as: “a collective name for the original peoples of North America and their descendants. The Canadian constitution recognizes three groups of Aboriginal people: Indians (commonly referred to as First Nations), Métis and Inuit. These are three distinct peoples with unique histories, languages, cultural practices and spiritual beliefs. More than one million people in Canada identify themselves as an Aboriginal person, according to the 2006 Census.” (Indigenous Nationhood) Although many Aboriginal peoples in Canada identify as being Aboriginal, many Aboriginal peoples struggle to maintain or gain a sense of cultural identity due to the Canadian Governments assimilation policies. Throughout this paper I will discuss how the Indian Act, the Canadian Residential School System, and the Sixties Scoop assimilated Aboriginal peoples into a European way of life, by attempting to integrate them into society by abolishing their Aboriginal identities. This assimilation process impacted Aboriginal peoples in negative ways throughout the generations socially, culturally, and economically. The negative impacts within child welfare system, educational institutions, and the socio-economic status of Aboriginal peoples today, prove assimilation and the total integration of Aboriginal peoples within mainstream society is unacceptable. Decolonization techniques should be applied within those areas in order combat the long lasting effects of...
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...Historical Timeline and Essay Michael Meisenheimer AAGN10AA62 December 11, 2011 Kelly Cantrell Historical Timeline and Essay Timeline 1793 Eli Whitney Invents the Modern Cotton Gin Slavery was becoming less and less profitable in the South prior to 1793. One reason was because cotton was not a profitable crop for farmers because preparing it for sale was so labor intensive. Eli Whitney's cotton gin turned cotton into a profitable crop and raised the demand of slaves in the South to grow it. This coincided with the North becoming a more industrialized region that didn't need to depend on slaves. 1819 Missouri Compromise The Missouri Compromise was brokered by Senator Henry Clay to settle the dispute between the North and the South about if the Western territories would be slave or free. Under the terms of the Compromise, slavery would only be allowed in Missouri and south of the 36th parallel. The need for the Missouri Compromise illustrates how the North and the South were beginning to hold very different views on how allowable slavery was to the nation. Bitter feelings about the compromise persisted in both the North and the South. 1828 The Nullification Crisis The Nullification Crisis grew out of a protective tariff of 1828. The tariff was popular with the Northern states, because it provided protection for American made goods. Southern states traded heavily with Great Britain during this time, and felt it would damage their economies. With the support...
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...Childhood obesity has become an epidemic in our country. It is for this reason that our children are the way they are today. The issues that the children and young people are having today are that they have to fix their own meals or order takeout. Childhood obesity is a growing problem in our country and it will not go away by its self. The way that we can slow down the rate of childhood obesity and maybe turn them around to be proactive. The fitness and health is our parent’s responsibility and the schools could have a big influence on our children. The schools have our children the most part of the day and this is the reason they should take the time to figure out what they can do to help our children. The way we use to eat back in the day was so healthy, now our children are having to eat fast food or microwave food. Another reason is all the electronics currently for the parents to let them do what they want. Just somewhere, they can be active. Technology in this day and time has made the lives of country so easy. People now a day’s ride instead of walking, email instead of taking a walk to a co-workers desk, or play the electronic games instead of taking the children to the park. Then when there is only one parent and they have to work. Well what are they to do but leave microwave or just eat anything the children want to eat. Then the parents come home come home and they eat this way to because they are too tired to cook. In the article “Why I Am Fighting Childhood...
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...NT-1110 Computer Structure and Logic Unit 4 Research Paper 1 The ENIAC Computer 4/26/13 World War II was knocking on the United States front door when the decision to develop a computer to handle complex mathematical calculations was made. The United States was in a dire need for a machine that could make accurate, precise, and fast calculations. The United States government and military turned to John Mauchly and John Presper Eckert to build the first Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator; or for short the ENIAC. The United States was ill prepared and forced into the war which meant that it had few resources to accomplish the task of defeating the enemy. The ENIAC was purposefully designed to calculate all variables such as wind speed, trajectory, and distance so that each shot fired from the military was done with devastating precision and accuracy. The ENIAC enabled the military to do these calculations in a matter of hours and minutes versus days. John Mauchly and John Eckert designed artillery tables using the ENIAC to make these vital calculations that were much faster than manually calculating. Unfortunately the design of the Electrical Numerical Integrator and Calculator was not completed until after the war. Although the ENIAC was designed for World War II, it had other uses for that time period. One of the greatest contributions that ENIAC had was with the development of the Hydrogen bomb. The ENIAC was able to calculate the complex mathematical formulas...
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...Under the law that was in effect at the time, the distillers were ordered to travel to Philadelphia were they were to appear in front of a judge in the federal courts. Farmers who received these warrants quickly realized it was expensive, time consuming, and beyond their means. Congress then modified this law on June 5th 1794, meaning that the tax trials could be held in local state courts. But by that time General David Lenox had already been sent to gather the distillers who had warrants against them and bring them to Philadelphia. But shortly after it was announced by William Bradford that the warrants were to compel compliance of the law, and that the government didn’t intend to hold the trials in Philadelphia. The timing of these invents later on proved to be an issue. This resulted in the battle of Bower Hill and the March on...
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...also brings a wave of new teenagers into the driving population. Each day during my typical commute one hour commute, I observe drivers text messaging on their cell phones. A recent survey conducted by Journey Safe, a safe driving advocacy organization, found that over 90% of teens admit to doing multiple tasks while driving, such as talking on the cell phone, eating, playing loud music, channel surfing, using mp3 players, and interacting with friends in the car even when they admit they find it distracting. The same survey results indicate that an overwhelming 75% of teens admitted to text messaging while driving (JourneySafe, 2007). Text messaging while driving is a growing trend and is becoming one of the nation’s top killers. In 2011, 1.3 billion (nearly 25% of all) automobile accidents resulted from texting while driving and 11 teens died everyday from texting while driving (Textinganddrivingsafety.com, 2013). However, only thirty-nine (39) states plus DC prohibit all drivers from text messaging (Distraction.gov 2012). Quite frankly, distracted driving is a dangerous reality and it makes driving risky business for everyone on the roads. Americans should support the standardization and enforcement of regulations regarding the use of cell phones while driving and make a personal commitment to not drive distracted in order to reduce accidents and save lives. History and Overview of the Distracted Driving Regulation Dilemma History indicates that the topic of distracted...
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