These 50 stunning homes were designed to embrace the elements Nate Berg
A house is much more than what lies within its walls. A new book out this week from Phaidon shows that a house’s setting can be as important as what’s inside it.
The book,
Living in Nature: Contemporary Houses in the Natural World, highlights 50 homes from around the world that were designed to bring in and celebrate their natural surroundings. Built from materials that relate to the environment and with boundaries that blur indoors and outdoors, they sit in harmony with their surroundings.
Divided into four sections air, earth, fire, and water the book offers tantalizing looks inside homes that were designed to connect with the outdoors and also to minimize their impact on the natural world.
MIP International Patent Forum: Why straight white men should help diversity drive
Everyone should join efforts to improve diversity and inclusion in IP, said panellists, who insisted that this must also include straight white males March 04 2021
“We need to see more straight white males on panels to get involved in these issues,” said one speaker at a diversity-focused seminar at Managing IP’s International Patent Forum this week.
This assertion may seem incongruous in a discussion on how to improve diversity and inclusion (D&I) in the IP profession.
However, the idea of encouraging the contributions of people who fit into this category – and who occupy the majority of senior roles – is one that is gaining traction.
Frand Forever? Or Other Business Models Are Possible? FrameWork License (FWL) intends to move past FRAND assurances which havenât reduced friction between innovators and implementers.
BriefingWire.com, 1/26/2021 - What is the FrameWork License (FWL)
In the context of the development of new technology standards, Intellectual Property Rights (IP Rights) are the engine that ensure and sustain technology innovation. FWL intends to move past FRAND assurances which havenât reduced friction between innovators and implementers.
In fact, the question of the implementation of FRAND assurances has created a diversity of interpretations, including different decisions taken by the courts. So much so that the recent judgment of the UK Supreme Court affirms a comprehensive principle of the meaning of FRAND: This is a single, composite obligation, not three distinct obligations that the license terms should be fair, and separately, r