Just some random ideas on how to do this culled from elsewhere
Rename *.foo to *.bar:
ls -d .foo | sed -e ‘s/./mv & &/’ | sh
Another interesting paper I saw presented (by Marc Cohen) was a joint paper of Cohen, Walsh and Cho entitled View from the Bench: Patents, licensing and upstream biomedical innovation.
Summary:
Patents aren’t having much impact in terms of holdup on R&D activity (at least where you don’t need access to the physical material) Primarily because [...]Caught an interesting presentation at DRUID by Scott Stern of an interesting paper he’s been working on with Fiona Murray entitled: Does Formal Intellectual Property Impact The Market For Scientific Collaboration? Evicence From Patent-Paper Pairs.
Take-away: 1 in 9 research projects considered is not taken forward because of patent issues (remember this doesn’t mean a [...]
6.5. Drives through its 91 minutes with enough momentum and occassional satiric wit to keep one occupied.
7.5/10. Lifted by the excellent performances of Vrinks (Auteuil) and Klein (Depardieu) whose rivalry forms the dark heart of this above average French flic flick.
A few months ago I came across a fascinating short paper authored by David Goodman (Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY)and Robert Myers (Fairfield Resource International) entitled 3G Cellular Standars and Patents (IEEE WirelessCom 2005, June 13, 2005).
The authors had participated in a project which had analyzed the 7,796 patents deemed ‘essential’_[1] to the 483 technical [...]
7/10. Film about a divorce and its affect on a family of four in 1980s Brooklyn: two author parents and two sons. Nicely done, amusing, occasionally touching, and even a little weird in sections, this is interesting film well above the run of the mill.
Pankaj Mishra, in a review of Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found repeats the following anecdote from that book (NYRB, 2004-11-18, p.18):
In another scene, Chopra, the film director Mehta has worked with, stands before a row of cable operators arrested for screening illegally his new film and orders a pliant police [...]
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Dr. Rufus Pollock is co-Founder and Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge.
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