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MAGNET Innovation Center
Update - October 2009
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Greetings!
Welcome to friends of the MAGNET Incubator, old and new. In talking to many of you over the
last month or so, a common theme was being able to stay better informed on the
activities going on in the incubator. With this inaugural E-Mail, I look
forward to keeping you updated on our entrepreneurs, our programs and events,
and best of all - our success stories.
With this E-Mail, I'm pleased to
tell you a little about three brand new tenants in the incubator: Western
Robotics, DXY Solutions, and Murphy IP.
Thank you for taking the time to read this communication.
Dave Crain
216.432.5310
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New Tenant: DXY Solutions
DXY Solutions is in the business of
mobile workforce management. They show businesses how to manage their
performance and activities using mobile technology. DXY develops and deploys
solutions to manage the flow of information to and from mobile workers,
automating how they do their job.
While this solution set puts DXY
squarely in the IT technology space, it was their growth strategy that made them
a perfect candidate for the incubator. With the recent announcement of their Urgicode system, the first wireless crash cart system that automatically monitors it's
contents, DXY looks to expand into the medical device arena, offering high-value
solutions to the health care industry.
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New Tenant: Western Robotics
Western Robotics is dedicated to providing automated robotic systems to
manufacturing companies to improve product quality, shorten production time,
reduce manufacturing costs, and protect workers from injury. Their systems
address significant industrial applications that defy automation by conventional
technology.
Their robot, dubbed the Touch Robot, succeeds by operating
in a manner that is fundamentally opposite to the way current automation
operates: it works by force rather than position. Rather than blindly repeating
motion paths, it uses sensed and controlled forces to learn, react and apply
work to variable parts with varying needs. The key to its performance is a
patented robot architecture that achieves the same dynamics as the human arm:
low friction joints, totally smooth actuation, and lightweight, low-inertia
links. By achieving human-arm dynamics, it can use human inspired strategies to
perform numerous tasks that today must be done by hand.
Western Robotics
is currently validating their technology and have several interested manufacturing
companies in the wings as potential beta testers and customers.
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New Tenant: Murphy IP
Finally, our newest tenant from September is Murphy IP. Comprised of three
patent and trademark attorneys who recently formed their own company, Murphy IP
would not normally be a match for our incubator. However, with all three
attorneys having various engineering and mechanical backgrounds, and a desire to
"give back", it made sense to try something a little different for the benefit
of the regional entrepreneurial community.
So I'm very pleased to
announce that Murphy IP will be offering monthly IP "clinics". Any technology
entrepreneur, with sponsorship by a regional entrepreneurial support organization, can sign up
for an hour long IP consultation with Murphy IP at no cost.
While
detailed right-to-market clearances or patent applications would be out of scope
for this length of meeting, guidance can be provided as to the necessary (and
most economic) means of protection. The sessions are intended to provide for
date-of-conception documentation and invention assignment forms for completion
and execution. Murphy IP will also offer quick-and-easy labeling
recommendations for copyrights and trademarks Finally, a frank assessment of
your technology's patent viability and IP defense options could also be
discussed.
I will be distributing information to the regional support
organizations very soon on the clinic's scheduling.
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