DWG pointed us to what appears to be Mark Lemley’s latest (and I’ll caveat that with the point that Lemley is crazy prolific, so he may have written something else more recently)... Read more
The patented technology is key to ViewRay’s new radiation therapy system, which is being designed to capture soft-tissue images continuously during treatment. “The technology is... Read more
As far as I know, Google has never sued nor even threatened anyone else with a patent infringement claim (if anyone knows of any, let me know). The company does file for a fair number of pat... Read more
Techdirt.com is a fascinating blog that covers the current wars being fought around copyright, intellectual property, patents and other areas that may impede or help the free flow of informa... Read more
There have been a bunch of companies trying to "trade" in patents or patent auctions, and all they've done is help make innovation harder Read more
Over the years, we've pointed to tons of research, especially historical research, that shows that near total lack of evidence that patents have any causal relationship to increased innovati... Read more
Image via Wikipedia While many people (especially politicians and the press) like to equate patents and innovation (often falsely suggesting that fewer patents means less innovation), studie... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Slashdot points us to an interview with Andre Geim, who won this year’s Nobel Prize for physics for his work on graphene. As part of the interview, they asked him a... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Reader Murdoch points us to one of Wired’s regular “this day in tech” history pieces about how Louis Daguerre revealed all of the “secrets”... Read more
Image by jontintinjordan via Flickr Patent nonsense DO PATENTS help or hinder innovation? Instinctively, they would seem a blessing, especially for backroom tinkerers. Patenting an idea give... Read more
