6
Consecutive months that Hawaii’s unemployment rate has remained at 6.4 percent
27
Months since the national unemployment rate was as low as 6.4 percent
119
Number of patents issued to Hawaii residents in 2010, a 26 percent increase compared to 2009
115,866
Number of patents issued to U.S. residents in 2010, a 23 percent increase compared to 2009
94 years
Age of Barney Hajiro–a member of the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the oldest surviving Medal of Honor recipient–who died on Oahu this week
32 years
Prison sentence given this week to former Defense Department engineer and Haiku resident Noshir Gowadia, for selling military secrets to China
Sources: Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Hawaii News Now
Tags: Barney Hajiro, Noshir Gowadia, Patents, unemployment
1 Comment
February 11, 2011
It is inevitable that there are so many people now who would want to steal various inventions and ideas to gain absolute power and money. Professionals and even businessmen are not excuse from this form of issues because a lot of them are trying to take chances to harbor the properties of their competitors.