When I speak to business owners, entrepreneurs and CEOs, they often want to know how a small businesses can capitalize on intellectual property.  They wonder, is IP protection for big firms only?  What difference does IP make to them?  Sure, it's nice to know that IBM earns billions each year in royalty payments on its IP portfolio, but what about the rest of us?

Here's a small business success story built on IP rights.  It involves a small group of software developers led by a college drop-out.  Like many developers, they were hired to do ...   more »