Inventor-Entrepreneur Pairs are Ideal for a Startup – Forbes

In my experience, inventors aren’t interested or aren’t very good at building a business, and entrepreneurs aren’t usually good scientists. These people need to find each other, and can jointly make a great team for a new startup.
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Grandma Taken to Apple HQ in Cupertino to Discuss iPad Invention – Softpedia

A grandma who invented a new type of accessory for iPad users has caught the attention of Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California. Thanks to her success with the leather iPad Handle, Cate Vincent was recently flown to Apple’s HQ to meet with a representative.
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Orcutt man hoping invention will help regrout the world – Santa Maria Times

Orcutt man hoping invention will help regrout the world
Santa Maria Times
This week the Orcutt resident will unveil his invention at the National Hardware Show in Las Vegas. Michael Taylor has been regrouting ceramic tile surfaces from Los Angeles to the Bay Area for 19 years. And for most of that time he's been looking for

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Seven New IBM Fellows Named as Company Celebrates Heritage of Innovation – Yahoo Finance

His key inventions include extendible hashing … affording clients more time to make decisions and react to changing situations more rapidly. This new breed of “context aware computing” holds big promise for organizations across a variety …
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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in New Jersey (April 26) – TMCnet

(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 26 — The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New Jersey. *** International Business Machines Assigned …
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Tim Cook on Samsung patent litigation: ‘I highly prefer to settle’ (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Tim Cook on Samsung patent litigation: ‘I highly prefer to settle’  —  It sounds like those court-ordered settlement talks between Apple and Samsung are going pretty well — Tim Cook just told analysts on Apple’s Q2 2012 financial call that he’s “always hated litigation, and I continue to hate it.”

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