Westinghouse Solar, Inc. , a designer and manufacturer of solar power systems, today announced the addition of RFK Jr. and Mark Kalow to their Board of Directors, expanding the size of the Board to eight members. Westinghouse stated that it expanded its Board to include Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Soquel Group Managing Director Mark Kalow to add depth in the areas of solar policy and intellectual property.
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In a competitive bid, Google purchased an extensive mobile technology patent portfolio created by Soquel Group for Modu Ltd. Soquel Group functioned as an in-house patent agency for Modu from its inception in 2006 through its sale in 2011, building a portfolio of over 100 patents covering a broad spectrum of mobile devices, communications and technologies. The Modu patents generally relate to a small modular communicator, about the size of a credit card, that attaches to a variety of electronic devices, referred to as “jackets” for the communicator, and provides the jackets with wireless communication functionality. Managing Director Marc Berger acted as Soquel Group’s account manager and principal investigator for the Modu portfolio.
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Robert Blumberg will give two presentations as part of the Research to Revenue speaker series being co-sponsored by UCSC’s Baskin School of Engineering and the Center for Entrepreneurship. The talks, targeted towards professors, graduate students and researchers, will address topics such as patenting at the University and legal issues associated with startups that support UCSC entrepreneurial & commercialization efforts.
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Mark Kalow will be moderating the Financial Roundtable panel at the upcoming 2010 6Sight Conference to be held Wednesday November 17th at the Sainte Claire Hotel, San Jose, CA
Mark Kalow has been elected to the Board of a Seattle start-up, Dogfish software. Dogfish was founded by members of the American Greetings/Photoworks engineering team.
Dogfish provides a range of engineering services, including UI/UX development, and database backends. Dogfish has also developed iPad and iPhone apps.
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