when the company blames the customer, check to see if the customer is buying from a different venter. when to fold. when a company is sitting on a mountain of cash and doing nothing, that's a stock you don't want to own. and when a company blames customers a, always be skeptical, those customers may be giving their business to another player. now to paul from texas. >> i'd like to take a second to thank you and your staff for all the energy and time to help us home gamers to participate in the market. >> thank you i'm just trying to teach people to be better investors and i'm doing my best. thank you for saying that. how could i help. >> yes i've been looking at mlps i know you discuss those on your show. >> yes. >> i'm trying to find out if you can teach us the additional homework and data to look at before decide chgwhich segment of an mlb to buy. >> i got to tell you, i have to put together so much information on mlps. i piece it together from all different research houses. i use rbn, a terrific oil analysis company by rusty brazil who has really helped on those partnerships. for t

then, in conversation with biochemist craig venter. then, the world bank president.ext, a look at next generation battery technology with washington correspondent steve levine and a director from argonne technology. hosted by atlantic council. jeffrey: welcome everybody and good afternoon. welcome to the atlantic council. we are pleased to have you all here today. i want to apologize in advance. we had some internet difficulties today. we will be passing microphones back and forth if it is not up and running by the time stephen and jeffrey start. i'm sure it will all work out. i do want to emphasize that this is a very important event today. it is the inaugural event and in our new technology speakers series. one of the things that are new global energy center that we are emphasizing is the critical role that technology will play in helping us to meet clean energy challenges and also the geopolitical and international ramifications of this new technologies. for this reason, we are thrilled to have and host steve levine and jeff chamberlain this afternoon. we could al

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well, if anybody is invested in that inventor and the invept venter sues for in-- inventor sues for infringement, but let's say his lawyers aren't as good as he loses that case. how they're changing the rules here is then all of a sudden all of the expenses of that big company, the legal expenses will have to be picked up by this small inventor. . oh, my gosh, what happens when that happens? you'll never get anybody to invest in that small inventor because the law not only says the inventor will pay for the cost of asking for the infringement case but anybody who has invested in his invention will also have to bear that burden. who is going to want to become liable if a big company starts stealing and they can't prove it in court. this destroys also, for example the bill destroyed treble damages. right now if a big company decides to steal from late -- from a little guy, if the little guy can prove this guy knew that that was my patent and he's stealing my intellectual property, if he can prove that then they get treble damages -- triple damages. that's been what we've had all along that permits