The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF, has launched a lawsuit against Apple. WARF?s lawsuit alleges that the iPhone maker infringes on a patent held by the University of Wisconsin – Madison, US Patent No. 5,781,752.
trollAnna Bialkowska via FlickrCalled patent trolls or non-practising entities (NPE), companies that make most of their money from licensing patents don?t have the best reputation. WARF is listed as #5.
A new project based in Madison aims to root out software vulnerabilities that can leave the door open for viruses, website hacking or other forms of cybercrime, estimated as a $100 billion industry. The SWAMP, or the Software Assurance Marketplace, is a collaboration of the private, nonprofit Morgridge Institute for Research along with UW-Madison, Indiana University and the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit against Apple claiming the company?s signature A7 chip infringes upon a WARF patent, according to CNET.
A University of Wisconsin, Madison physics lab will close on April 5, after a decision from the Department of Energy came down in late January.
The organization that manages patents for the University of Wisconsin is filing a lawsuit against Apple accusing the company of using a patented invention in its latest iPhone and mobile devices.
Swedenborg and Ronning are members of two teams from UW-Madison that have been chosen to make presentations in regional competitions in March for the Hult Prize, a contest that draws more than 10,000 applicants from over 150 countries.
Silatronix got its start when two University of Wisconsin professors, both considered experts in their fields, happened to run into each other one day in 2007.
Unity Health Insurance said Thursday morning that a missing hard drive could compromise patient information for more than 40,000 members.
There?s a reason why President Barack Obama called out Rebecca Blank, chancellor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, when he spoke at GE?s gas engines plant in Waukesha on Jan. 30.
A team of four engineering students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison is among 300 teams chosen from a field of 10,000 applicants to compete for the $1 million, winner-take-all Hult Prize.
Students (and plenty of professors) love snow days. But when they can?t get what they want, is that any reason for a blizzard of hate on Twitter?
Jadin said the UW-Madison is driving much of the local life sciences sector?s advance. He said the university is No. 4 nationwide in federal research funds.
Wisconsin farmers earned an estimated $3.75 billion last year, their second most profitable ever, thanks in large part to strong dairy and livestock sales, University of Wisconsin economists reported Wednesday.
The report is a key ingredient to the Wisconsin Agricultural Outlook Forum on Wednesday at UW-Madison.
It was December 2009 when Heidi Allstop, then a UW-Madison graduate student in psychology and business, needed someone to talk to about the stresses of student life and figured other students probably did, too.
For University of Wisconsin-Madison animal sciences professor Mark Cook, there?s an important factor to his long-term success: chickens.
The technology was developed in the lab of UW-Madison medical school professor Douglas McNeel and the patents have been licensed from WARF.
Entrepreneurs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison soon will have a new advocate on campus that should boost the number of ideas that are commercialized, which we think should, in turn, give the state?s economy a boost over time.
Stemina?s technology grew out of research by former UW-Madison stem cell researcher Gabriela Cezar.
When Rebecca Blank arrived at the University of Wisconsin-Madison last summer, she became chancellor of one of the largest academic research universities in the world, but one that has an uneven track record for commercializing that work.
Noted: Marquette University, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and University of Wisconsin-Madison are among the state-based schools that received marketing materials, Burke said.
As scientists get closer to using embryonic stem cells in new treatments for blindness, spinal cord injuries and heart disease, a U.S. legal debate could determine who profits from that research. Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit advocacy group, wants an appeals court to invalidate a University of Wisconsin-Madison?s patent for stem cells derived from human embryos, saying it?s too similar to earlier research. The Santa Monica, California, group also says the U.S. Supreme Court?s June ruling limiting ownership rights of human genes should apply to stem cells, a potentially lucrative field for medical breakthroughs.
A record 167 businesses participated this year in the “green masters” program coordinated by the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That?s up 46% from last year.
Quick, name one of the oldest?if not the oldest?university tech transfer institutions in the country. If your brain automatically took you to a spot in New England or sunny California, think again. It?s the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF, which was founded nearly 90 years ago in 1925.
Teenagers spurning family time and conversation for Candy Crush during the holiday season is nearly as common a sight these days as turkey and baked ham.
Noted: A study by the Center On Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said the county living wage plan would result in $38 million in higher pay that would be spent in the Milwaukee area.
Madison stem cell company Cellular Dynamics International will work with the Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences in North Carolina?s Research Triangle Park in creating tests to see if chemicals and drug candidates will result in toxic side effects.
Artificial Intelligence is defined as the ability for a machine such as a computer to perform functions analogous to learning and decision making. This past summer undergraduates Anjali Narayan-Chen and Liqi Xu taught the computer how to play Angry Birds. Angry birds is a popular game where using a slingshot, the player shoots wingless birds to kill pigs. And like other games, there are several levels of difficulty, different sizes and colors of birds, and different obstacles. With each game, new birds and special abilities can be activated by the player.
We?ve recently seen rehabilitative systems in which stroke victims use their thoughts either to move animated images of their paralyzed limbs, or to activate robotic devices that guide their limbs through the desired movements. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, however, have just announced an alternative approach. Their device acts as an intermediary between the brain and a non-responsive hand, receiving signals from the one and transmitting them to the other.
Campus entrepreneurism: A decade ago, it was difficult to find organized entrepreneurial education programs on Wisconsin campuses, the exceptions being the Weinert Center of Entrepreneurship at UW-Madison and the Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship at Marquette University. Today, such programs are relatively widespread and popular. At the UW-Whitewater, for example, the “Launch Pad” is a student business incubator. At the UW-Madison, a dormitory floor has been set aside for self-identified entrepreneurs. This campus fad won?t soon fade.
Campus entrepreneurism: A decade ago, it was difficult to find organized entrepreneurial education programs on Wisconsin campuses, the exceptions being the Weinert Center of Entrepreneurship at UW-Madison and the Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship at Marquette University.
Unhappy state legislators clamoring for more deliberate strategies tied to economic growth…
A new program to help prepare women and minorities start their own businesses is being offered by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and the UW-Madison Small Business Development Center
Cities seeking to be hubs of innovation ? in other words cities where smart, creative people want to be in the 21st century ? require collaborative partnerships. And if those partnerships include a major research institution and a world renowned patenting, licensing and investing organization all the better.
Admissions for one of the most-watched educational programs in the country opened last week in Wisconsin.
Despite widespread skepticism about whether or not the digitalization of America?s dialogue can advance modern thought, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Dietram Scheufele said there are only three common behaviors that, if corrected, could transform the current state of polarizing disagreements online into beneficial conversations.
As debate about the monitoring of online activities continues in the public sphere, a review of the University of Wisconsin?s information system privacy policies found administrators can only access student email after a written request is approved.
As debate about the monitoring of online activities continues in the public sphere, a review of the University of Wisconsin?s information system privacy policies found administrators can only access student email after a written request is approved.
?This bill reforms government for the 21st century by providing a market-driven solution in helping startups raise the capital they need to grow and create jobs,? said Walker during the bill signing ceremony at University Research Park.
UW Health in Madison and Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee are exploring a partnership.
UW Health in Madison and Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee are exploring a partnership.
With backing from UW-Madison, Terry Sivesind and Toni Sikes created MERLIN (Madison Entrepreneur Resource, Learning and Innovation Network) Mentors.
Part of the global effort to predict storm behavior is being conducted through the UW-Madison Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies. With support from NOAA, university scientists will work with data from NOAA satellites, current and future. The team will collaborate to improve satellite-based products that monitor weather and climate while enhancing sensors planned for future spacecraft.
Forbes Magazine listed the MGE Innovation Center within the University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Park as a top hotbed for high tech startups Friday.
While Wisconsin continues to lag in the creation of net new companies, directions in sectors that are sources of young, high-growth companies promise to help over time. Here are 10 trends shaping the future of Wisconsin?s tech-based economy.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced in a press release Tuesday it will partner with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to develop campus entrepreneurship and utilize collaboration to bring innovative ideas to fruition.
A new partnership focusing on entrepreneurship has been launched on the UW-Madison campus.
The University of Wisconsin has experimented with new learning methods recently by ?flipping? classrooms, changing the traditional structure of large lectures.
I had a great conversation this past week with University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Richard Halverson and WHYY Radio Times host Marty Moss-Coane about flipping classrooms.
University Research Park associate director Greg Hyer has been named interim director of the West Side business complex, following the retirement of Mark Bugher.
After hearing about an employer asking a college student to share access to personal social media accounts while applying for a job, Rep. Melissa Sargent, D-Madison, authored a bill to provide privacy to young people, which could reach the Senate after Tuesday?s session.
Noted: CDI was founded in 2004 by Thomson, who is also a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor.
UW-Madison will share in a $3.2 million grant designed to help address a nursing shortage and receive another $2.4 million for a tech startup program under an initiative meant to spur job growth across the state.
Noted: It took three years (“you can?t rush a good thing”), but with help from the Dairy Business Innovation Center and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Williams and Shaw managed to reproduce the once-popular cheese.
When Great Oaks Venture Capital decided to expand its reach and build digital start-up companies in Wisconsin, it didn?t take long for the New York firm to figure out where to begin: Madison. Andy Boszhardt Jr. and John Philosophos, two University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni, turned to their alma mater?s highly regarded computer science department to collaborate on a venture that invests in and supports technology companies launched by student entrepreneurs.
College students at UW-Madison are making up to $1,000 a month with a new on-campus job opportunity.
Activity monitoring doesn?t work on all cows because some don?t show signs of heat, and others may not ovulate at all without a hormonal boost. Klessig said it has been effective with 95 percent of his herd ? well above the 70 percent that Paul Fricke, a UW-Madison dairy science professor, said is typical.
Howard Bremer, one of the founders of Modern Technology Transfer at University of Wisconsin and a prestigious alumnus at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, died late last week.
University of Wisconsin business students are helping people ?fetch? their groceries and receive automatic savings with the creation of a new smartphone application.
