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Travel Tricks Every Entrepreneur Needs To Know

Loknath Das

Passengers stand in line to go through a TSA security checkpoint I have always spent extensive time traveling for business over the past 15 years.  Even prior to starting PK4 Media, I ran national sales teams with five U.S. offices and our parent company was based in the United Kingdom. Since launching PK4 Media in 2009, I have spent at least one week per month on the road.  In the process, I have lear ned every travel trick in the book to help make the trip comfortable and successful. For many…

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Opinion: Amazing gene-editing technology needs a pass on patent minefields

Loknath Das

A breakthrough gene editing technology known as CRISPR is poised to deliver new medical therapies and agricultural and industrial advancements. Although recent reports of its success in the laboratory are promising, the larger challenge confronting CRISPR may be access to the underlying patent rights. To develop CRISPR technologies, commercial developers must fight or license their way through an intellectual property labyrinth that is the definition of inefficiency. The situation looks like an invitation to litigation or government intervention, either of which would put the technology’s vast potential at risk. There…

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