Category: Business/Technology

Apple has won an appeal of a patent infringement case originally brought by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to a report from the Reuters news service.

Apple Inc. will no longer need to pay $234 million in damages to the licensing arm of University of Wisconsin over patent infringement after a federal appeals court ruled in the tech company’s favor.

Apple Inc persuaded a federal appeals court on Friday to throw out a $234 million damages award in favor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s patent licensing arm for infringing a patent on computer processing technology.

At the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of California, San Diego, researchers have gone the extra mile to make advanced backscatter devices, and these new tags don’t need the discrete components we have seen in previous versions. They are calling it LiveTag, and it doesn’t need anything aside from a layer of foil printed or etched on a flexible ceramic-PTEF laminate. PTEF is mostly seen in the RF sector as a substrate for circuit boards.

The current agreements offer options of “cost sharing” in order to encourage new faculty members to join the new institution.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Foxconn Technology Group will manage their new research partnership largely behind closed doors, documents detailing the agreement show.

To broaden participation in STEM programs and fields, the National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $10 million INCLUDES Alliance grant to be co-led by UW-Madison’s Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.

The National Science Foundation revealed a $10 million award to boost involvement in STEM programs at UW-Madison. This will also prove as an opportunity to provide underrepresented students with the chance to thrive in the program.

The University of Wisconsin received a $750,000 grant Friday to establish a biomanufacturing initiative, which officials say will encourage growth in the Wisconsin industry.

Supporters of the partnership between Foxconn and UW-Madison consider it an opportunity to encourage academic research, while critics question the integrity of private funding and safe workspaces.

Phoenix, formerly Phoenix Nuclear Labs, was established in 2005 based on research that began at UW-Madison.

New businesses account for nearly all net new job creation.

The combined $200 million is part of the university’s ongoing $3.2 billion All Ways Forward fundraising campaign. Foxconn’s funding will primarily support a new building for the College of Engineering on the UW-Madison campus, while any facilities related to the FIRST initiative are still to be determined, the representative said, noting that “there is no predetermined list” of university departments that will have access to the interdisciplinary program. Foxconn’s contributions will also help provide opportunities for internships and applied learning in campus labs.

The UW System had a $24 billion impact in Wisconsin last year, representing a 23-to-1 return on investment for the state, according to a recent economic study.

After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Brueggeman moved to Beijing, China. While living there, he saw scores of small electric vehicles on the road and how they dramatically affected the way people moved and saw the world.

DataChat, founded by UW-Madison computer sciences professor and serial entrepreneur Jignesh Patel, analyzes data to give business leaders the type of information they need to make decisions.

Noted: The University Research Park where Exact Sciences is building out its offices is run by a nonprofit corporation with ties to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and houses more than 140 companies.

University of North Dakota President Mark Kennedy has appointed Meloney Golombiecki Linder to serve as Vice President for Marketing and Communications.  Linder will begin her new duties Sept. 4.

For UW–Madison, most conversations with Foxconn have focused on research and recruiting opportunities. From the College of Letters and Science to autonomous vehicles, Foxconn has expressed interest in drawing on some of UW–Madison’s unique assets. … “I think most people think of Foxconn [as] that place in Racine that’s going to manufacture big-screen TVs and large-scale tech screens, and they have a much broader set of interests than that [which] we’re working on,” says Charles Hoslet, vice chancellor of university relations at UW–Madison relations.

Finding the funniest captions for hundreds of cartoons in The New Yorker magazine is not the ultimate application of an artificial intelligence tool developed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

As trade tensions between Washington and Beijing escalate, the chairman of Foxconn Technology Group, Terry Gou, has managed to make the assembler of iPhones seem immune from the bitter tariff war — and he even has become a notable job creator in the U.S. despite the fact that his hardware empire faces mounting challenges at a critical stage.

He’s a product geek and fanatic problem solver with a passion for improving efficiency and reducing ambiguity.

Interestingly, from last year to this year the same number of schools topped 40% international enrollment: seven … A pair of northern publics, the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management (20.5%) and Wisconsin School of Business (20.2%) were at the low end as well, though in Carlson’s case the total represented aa jump of 4.4 points from last year.

Q&A with St. John, a 2018 MBA recipient.