Link to article on IRgA.com….
Friday, May 27, 2016
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Memjet vs. HP vs. Memjet - Brief update on court case
Just a very brief (and rather uninformative)
update on the matter of Memjet vs. HP vs. Memjet re wide-format page-wide
printing technology and patents thereon.
Per filings reported in the Pacer.gov system,
this case is alive and well and moving forward. But, where it will end up,
well, I’m not sure that, at this point in time, anyone could reasonably predict
what the outcome of this case will be.
During April and May 2015, over 3,500 pages
of briefs and exhibits were filed with the court re this case:
Filed
April 20, 2016 - AMENDED JOINT CLAIM CONSTRUCTION HEARING STATEMENT, CHART, AND
WORKSHEET PURSUANT TO PATENT L.R. 4.2, main document and exhibits = 316 pages
Filed May 12, 2016 - MEMJET’S OPENING CLAIM
CONSTRUCTION BRIEF, main document and exhibits = 312 pages
Filed
May 12, 2016 - HP INC.’S OPENING CLAIM CONSTRUCTION BRIEF, main document and
exhibits = 98 pages
Filed May 20, 2016 - MEMJET’S OPENING CLAIM
CONSTRUCTION BRIEF, main document and exhibits = 324 pages
Filed May 20, 2016 - HP INC.’S OPENING CLAIM
CONSTRUCTION BRIEF, main document and exhibits = 62 pages
Filed May 20, 2016 - DECLARATION OF ANDREW V. DEVKAR
IN SUPPORT OF HP INC.’S OPENING CLAIM CONSTRUCTION BRIEF, main document and
exhibits – 2,389 pages
Blog Publisher’s further comments:
I don’t recall if this case is going to be
heard just by a judge or by a jury. If
it is going to be heard by just a judge, I feel sorry for that judge, for
reading the fillings is going to be MAJOR, MAJOR headache – bring on the Advil,
in buckets! If this case is going to be heard by a jury, well, that’s going to be quite interesting, for the jury members are going to be
hard-pressed to understand the information presented by the parties. They, too, will have major headaches. Bring
on the Advil, in truckloads!!! I read
through some of the documents, and, while I’ve never considered myself to be
the dimmest bulb in the pack, I had great difficult trying to understand any of
information set forth in the documents and exhibits. And, it
was in English!
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
HP begins selling its Jet Fusion 3D printer; says it's 50% cheaper, 10X faster than others
May 17, 2016 5:30 AM PT
ORLANDO -- Hewlett-Packard today began taking orders for its first 3D
printer, the HP Jet Fusion printer, which it said will be up to 10 times faster
than existing machines and can cut the cost of manufacturing parts in half.
Read complete article (at ComputerWorld) at
this link:
Saturday, May 14, 2016
Fast-growing iSqFt combines with 3 firms to form new company - ConstructConnect
This
article comes from the Cincinatti Business Journal
May 13, 2016, 11:52am EDT Revised
Date/Time Publish Updated May 13, 2016, 2:37pm EDT
Fast-growing iSqFt combined with three other companies to form a new firm
called ConstructConnect.
Norwood-based iSqFt combined with BidClerk, Construction Data Co. and Construction Market Data
to form ConstructConnect.
Dave Conway, who has been president and CEO of iSqFt, is
president and CEO of ConstructConnect. The combined company is headquartered in
its new offices at Rookwood Exchange.
Conway said ConstructConnect combines
each of the unique benefits of the four companies.
“The whole is greater than the sum of
the parts,” Conway said. “It made sense to create a new name that’s reflective
of what the combination brings to the market, which is unprecedented.”
ConstructConnect provides construction
professionals, including general contractors, subcontractors, design
professionals and building product manufacturers with pre-construction
solutions including data, content and insights, helping users to find and win
new contracts.
ConstructConnect now has about 725
total employees, including about 300 at its headquarters in Norwood. The
company still expects to grow quickly. Conway said the firm is currently looking
to fill about 30 jobs.
Last year, the Ohio Tax Credit
Authority approved iSqFt for a 65 percent, six-year job creation tax credit.
The estimated value of the tax credit is $580,000.
In addition to ConstructConnect’s
headquarters, the company has nine other locations across the U.S. and Canada.
Dodge Data & Analytics LLC, a major
provider of construction project information, filed a lawsuit against the firms that combined to form
ConstructConnect, alleging they are attempting to monopolize the nationwide
construction project information market in the U.S. and Canada. At the end of
April, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Black rejected iSqFt's request to dismiss the lawsuit.
Conway said the firms have been focused
on improving their easy-to-use software and providing even more relevant
project data. It’s ConstructConnect’s combination of data, software and
connections that make it unique, Conway said.
For Conway and what was iSqFt, the
transition to ConstructConnect shows how far the company has come. iSqFt, which
was founded in 1993 by Phil Ogilby as a job-estimating software firm, made its
big breakthrough in April 2001. That’s when its then-new president Conway
helped the company win a fierce competition against 200 other firms to become
the exclusive national partner of Associated General Contractors of America, a
trade group representing 30,000 commercial contractors.
“We were a small tech startup, and
we’ve grown to be the largest company of our kind in North America,” Conway
said. The combination of data, software and connections allows customers to
better evaluate all opportunities and select the project with the highest
probability to win that work using rich data, Conway said.
“You can’t construct if you don’t
connect,” Conway said.
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