• Rules from the BABY’s Book on Becoming a Billionaire
  
  

  • Rule #91: Neither the journalists nor the feds are as dumb as they look, and a misplaced sense of entitlement can be very dangerous to your personal health. And its corollary…

  • Rule #92: It is tough to spend your winnings if you’re sitting in jail.

• Neil is WTFU about the backdating of stock options--why do abundantly rich people risk it all for pennies?

• Wishy-washy? Stud Bubbles wants you to keep a close eye on your car being washed.

• The “I wish I’d thought of that idea” Idea: Good vibrations? Oh Mi Bod is touted as the ultimate accessory to your iPod.

• Banking on a cancer cure--Dr. Ivor Royston advances biotech companies and, in his “free” time, wins a Tony award.

• Forget the whine with those wings. Randy Broberg disputes Hooters’ claims to exclusive trade rights to waitresses wearing tight tank tops and short skirts and clarifies what can be protected.

• The Bedjack Company owner, Josef Anderson, helps clean under the bed with his innovative technology.

Ivor Royston, M.D. is the co-founder of Forward Ventures, and was the founding President and CEO of the non-profit Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center. In 1978, he was a co-founder of San Diego’s first biotechnology company, Hybritech, Inc. (now a subsidiary of Beckman Coulter) which was sold to Eli Lilly in 1986 for $480 million. Dr. Royston has been instrumental in the establishment of more than 10 other biotechnology companies, most notably IDEC Corporation, which merged with Biogen in 2003 to form Biogen Idec, Inc. Born in England, Dr. Royston moved to the United States when he was nine years old. He is a producer of Jersey Boys which won the 2006 Tony award for best musical.

Randy Broberg, recently named one of the best transactional intellectual property attorneys in San Diego by the San Diego Daily Transcript, is a partner at the law firm of Allen Matkins. His diverse clients have included representing General Atomics in a manufacturing arrangement against a Korean company, representing tennis player Serena Williams to acquire the domain name www.serenawilliams.com, and trademark representation of Directed Electronics, maker of the Viper car alarms.