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michaelolenick

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About michaelolenick

* Created interactive pregnancy calendar, sold to iVillage (#1 draw five years running) * Created web-print technology, sold to Avery Dennison * Created photo stamp technology, licensed to stamps.com * Created Avery Photo ID system, licensed to GE * Created Blue Ocean Strategy Createware with authors of book * Trained by the sarcastically named Fifi, a seven pound Papillon who is smarter than many people

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49260322

    It's inevitable there will be false positives, inevitable they'll do reputational or economic damage, and inevitable plaintiff attorneys will sue on the behalf of people damaged. M…

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    Comment #27373456

    Like the other reply, this is flat-out gaslighting. First, it's a fallacy that executive rates for nonprofits should be set by the market based on others. Who would say their nonpr…

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    Comment #10190649

    I was in the middle of this way back when. Software I created (well, I prototyped and hired somebody else to create), won the very first Macromedia Rich Internet Application. It cr…

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    Comment #6137697

    They've been doing exactly that for about 237 years.

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    Comment #6122663

    I wish MBA's would knock it off with their everything is easy meme. Yes - software, including apps, can be created in two months. In fact we can write them in two hours, or take tw…

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    Comment #6122620

    Yes - this is what I meant, though I think it's also what I wrote. It's not prior art; it's obviousness, and the USPTO defines non-obvious as published, co-mingling the two. So we …

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    Comment #6118662

    If these weren't depressing they'd be funny. For those who don't know the patent & trademark office (PTO) defines "obvious" as described in a prior patent or, sometimes, an academi…