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It’s complex: Navigating IP and trade
September 9, 2024 | My Take
Intellectual property, patent law, trade law, doing business internationally. When these are part of the discussion, many sentences include a “however.” The farther one delves into these areas, the more “howevers” there are, it seems. Even if you’ve achieved getting an international patent…
Truly wearable
August 12, 2024 | My Take
When you see a photo of a shirt, for example, with sensing technology built in, it typically looks like something a young athlete would wear. That’s great, because athletes are among the people most likely to be interested in smart garments, and they have good reason to want to monitor their healt…
Preparing to say, “I told you so”
July 29, 2024 | My Take
It’s interesting to me how the smart fabric segment of the advanced textiles industry has found ways to maneuver around the limitations inherent in powering smart fabric products. In essence, a battery in the form of a puck, as it’s now called, provides the power—one way or another. Workaround…
Hiding in plain sight
June 10, 2024 | My Take
Everything we talk about on this site has to do with textiles in some way. It’s required when you work for an organization that represents the interests of those working in the textile industry. It is not required, however, that the textiles be obvious. They just have to be … in there somewhere …
Still learning
April 8, 2024 | My Take
I’m a researcher at heart. Even in college I would lose myself in the research part of a paper that was due in a couple of days. Authors will tell you that you’re likely to use about a fourth of the research you amass when you write a book. That was certainly the case with my book. There is so m…
Liquid electronics: It’s not an oxymoron
March 25, 2024 | My Take
The words “liquid” and “electronics” are not, in general, words you want to see together. I have pictures in my head of warnings having to do with using an electric hair dryer in the bathtub. That may get a laugh today; but who among us can explain how wearables crafted from e-textiles can b…