DETROIT? The law firm of Dickinson Wright has created an Intellectual Property Academy to recruit and train recent law school grads, engineers and scientists to become patent attorneys. The Academy will be run by Harold (Hal) Milton, Jr., a patent attorney with more than 40 years of experience in patent preparation, prosecution and licensing. Milton
LANSING - The Michigan Senate is planning to pass legislation cutting small business taxes and earmarking funds for the Budget Stabilization Fund when it comes back into session this week. That would keep with the schedule that Senate Majority Leader Ken Sikkema (R-Wyoming) and House Speaker Craig DeRoche (R-Novi) announced when they outlined their first
SOUTHFIELD ? The U.S. Department of Energy has selected Lawrence Tech as one of 20 schools - the only Michigan university - to compete in the 2007 Solar Decathlon. LTU gets $100,000 over two years to develop ways to reduce the cost of solar-powered homes. ?The next generation of leaders will have an opportunity to
ANN ARBOR - If you think your technology company is ready to pitch at the grand daddy of all private equity events, then this is the annoucement you've been waiting for. The 2006 Michigan Growth Capital Symposium issued a call Monday for applications to pitch hundreds of potential investors at the 25th anniversary Symposium in
LOS ANGELES - An inventor who was involved in two auto accidents has written software that sends an alert sound from his cell-phone when the driver gets within 300 feet of an approaching traffic signal. The Linux-based software-only solution can be downloaded directly onto a GPS-enabled cell-phone by the cellular service provider, who will and
DETROIT - Saying Michigan's Single Business Tax, or any separate specific tax for business, would make the state anti-competitive, the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce is calling for the state to eliminate the tax now. Raising revenues from businesses should be based on annual license fee assessed on the basis of the businesses' sales, the
LANSING - With little fanfare Wednesday, the Michigan Legislature, reconvening for the first session of 2006, adopted a concurrent resolution creating an oversight committee to look after the 21st Century Jobs Fund. SCR 38 was the only action taken by both chambers during the day, setting the stage for what could be a political battle
LIVONIA ? Kalamazoo Valley Community College's RFID Technnology Center is offering a series of seminars with the Procurement Technical Assistance Centers of Michigan for government contractors that need to learn how to affix RFID tags to their products to comply with new federal mandates. Meeting the DOD RFID Mandate is scheduled to take place at
BIRMINGHAM - NextEnergy's Jim Croce and DTE Energy's Ganesh Ananthasubramaniam will discuss alternative energy investment opportunities on Jan. 18 at the next meeting of the Great Lakes Angels. THe meeting also will feature a presentation by NEXTEP SYSTEMS of Troy, which has developed a touchscreen ordering system for the fast food and concessions industries. The
ROYAL OAK - If you have old cell phones, pagers, PDA's and digital cameras you no longer use than Detroit Entrepreneurship Institue wants to talk with you. DEI will recycle your tech toys and help entrepreneurs and provide economic literacy training to individuals in Southeast Michigan with limited resources. For each cell phone, pager, PDA