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Patents forecast technological change

Patents forecast technological change

How fast is online learning evolving? Are wind turbines a promising investment? And how long before a cheap hoverboard makes it to market? Attempting to answer such questions requires knowin... Read more

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CES 2015: Toyota opens up hydrogen patents

CES 2015: Toyota opens up hydrogen patents

Car maker Toyota has announced that it will freely share almost 6,000 patents it owns covering hydrogen fuel cell technology. It said it took the step in a bid to drive development of cars t... Read more

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Intellectual property: Stalking trolls

Intellectual property: Stalking trolls

Intellectual property: After being blamed for stymying innovation in America, vague and overly broad patents on software and business processes could get the chop AT LAST, it seems, somethin... Read more

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Supreme Court Rejects Patents on 2 Naturally Occurring Genes

Supreme Court Rejects Patents on 2 Naturally Occurring Genes

The Supreme Court today unanimously struck down patents on BRCA1 and BRCA2 When Angelina Jolie announced last month that she decided to get a prophylactic double mastectomy, she based her de... Read more

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Are human genes patentable?

Are human genes patentable?

Layered uncertainties make this case an unusually difficult case in which to predict the outcome On April 15, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Association for Molecular Pathology... Read more

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You Don’t “Own” Your Own Genes

You Don't

  Humans don’t “own” their own genes, the cellular chemicals that define who they are and what diseases they might be at risk for. Through more than 40,000 patents on... Read more

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Should business be allowed to patent mathematics?

Should business be allowed to patent mathematics?

A long-running philosophical debate is being rehashed in the world of business, and big money is at stake, says Stephen Ornes AT SOME point in their career every mathematician comes up again... Read more

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Innovation Nation at War

Innovation Nation at War

“I decided it would be fun to do patent trials,” said Richard Posner. We were sitting in his spacious office in the federal courthouse in downtown Chicago, where, for more than three decades... Read more

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Google, Facebook ask court to reject patents on abstract ideas

Google, Facebook ask court to reject patents on abstract ideas

As patent spats continue to command much of the tech world’s attention and corporate resources, a group of prominent companies is taking a stand against a practice it sees as hobbling... Read more

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The Meteoric Ascent of the Patent Troll and the Devastating Consequences for Innovation

The Meteoric Ascent of the Patent Troll and the Devastating Consequences for Innovation

It is perfectly legal for companies to sit on patents and wait for others to create before either suing the creator or charging licensing fees. Today it is perfectly legal for companies to b... Read more

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Kickstarter sued over 3D Systems’ printer patent

Kickstarter sued over 3D Systems' printer patent

Crowd-funding website Kickstarter is being sued for its promotion of a new 3D printer. More than 2,000 users contributed over $2.9m (£1.8m) to help Massachusetts-based Formlabs build the dev... Read more

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85 Year Old May Have Solution to a Greener Future

85 Year Old May Have Solution to a Greener Future

Bruce Brown has just invented a new technology to make jet engines more efficient. He applied and received a U. S. Patent on his idea. The technology promises to save 30% of the fuel current... Read more

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Inventor Challenges a Sweeping Revision in Patent Law

Inventor Challenges a Sweeping Revision in Patent Law

Head off a patent law that he says will favor big companies and hurt lone inventors like himself In Silicon Valley, Apple just won big against Samsung in the patent lawsuit of the year, afte... Read more

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Could a ‘Defensive Patent License’ Fix the U.S. Patent System?

Could a 'Defensive Patent License' Fix the U.S. Patent System?

Many innovators don’t want to patent their creations It might be a heretical idea for readers of this magazine, but law professor Jason Schultz says that many innovators don’t wa... Read more

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Microsoft patents emotion-based advertising system

Microsoft patents emotion-based advertising system

Would you want Microsoft to monitor your emotional state? Microsoft has filed a patent application for a computer system that will allow advertisers to target customers based on their emotio... Read more

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