Feb 25, 2021
Longtime UFC lightweight contender and recent featherweight mover, Edson Barboza has put pen to paper on a new multi-fight deal with the UFC furthering his so far eleven-year stay with the North American-based organization.
A staple of the promotion’s lightweight top-ten and top-five on occasion, the Muay Thai ace recently tested featherweight waters in a somewhat surprising move last May and has so far established a 1-1 record at 145-pounds, claiming the #14 rank.
Debuting at the featherweight limit at a UFC Fight Night event in Jacksonville, Florida in May Barboza dropped a hugely-contentious split decision defeat to Hawaii’s, Dan Ige on his divisional bow. Returning eventually in October, Barboza got off the mark at featherweight with an impressive short-notice unanimous decision win over Makwan Amirkhani after a planned pairing with Sodiq Yusuff was shelved.
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$3.04 billion in billings worldwide in January 2021 (three-month average basis), the first time monthly billings have reached US$3 billion, said the US-based Semiconductor Equipment & Materials International (SEMI).
North American Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts $3B Billings in January 2021
North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $3.04 billion in billings worldwide in January 2021 (three-month average basis), the first time monthly billings have reached $3 billion, according to the January Equipment Market Data Subscription (EMDS) Billings Report published today by SEMI. The billings figure is 13.4 percent higher than the final December 2020 billings of $2.68 billion and is 29.9 percent higher than the January 2020 billings level of $2.34 billion.
“January billings of North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers marked a historic monthly high for the industry and a great start to the year,” said Ajit Manocha, SEMI president and CEO. “The acceleration of digital transformation is fueling strong, durable demand for semiconductor equipment.”
Patent Assertion Entities: Two Big Banks Join OIN to Combat Them With patent trolling on the rise, investment bank Barclays and TD Bank Group have put patent assertion entities on notice by taking membership in Open Invention Network.
Two major banks, Barclays and TD Bank Group, have joined the fight against patent assertion entities, otherwise known as patent trolls, by joining the Linux-focused patent nonaggression organization Open Invention Network.
Patents are considered to be Linux s and open source s greatest intellectual property vulnerability, an issue that primarily affects users because open source software generally comes with no promised or implied patent indemnity. To address this issue, OIN was established by IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat and Sony in 2005 to protect Linux during an era when Microsoft was threatening to take action against Linux users for infringing over 200 Microsoft-owned patents it claimed that Linux violated.