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INVENTIONS News, Aug 22, 2011

Eastern Visayas opens 1st regional invention contest and exhibits
Philippine Information Agency
22 (PIA) –- Different qualified inventions from all over Eastern Visayas have been showcased here today at the Activity Center of Robinsons Place for the 1st ever regional invention contest and exhibits (RICE). The 1st ever RICE that runs from August ...
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4 Minda inventions in national tilt
Sun.Star
By Bong S. Sarmiento GENERAL SANTOS CITY -- Four promising inventions from Southwestern Mindanao will compete in the National Invention Contest and Exhibit (Nice) of the Department of Science and Technology, a top official said. ...
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Founder of Priceline Spoiling For a Fight Over Tech Patents
Wall Street Journal
Since it was founded in 1994 as a research lab, Walker Digital LLC has made much of its money by spinning out its inventions, like online travel agent Priceline and vending-machine firm Vendmore Systems LLC, as independent businesses. ...
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Supreme Court protects inventor rights
The Daily Cougar
Roche Molecular Systems, the Supreme Court limited a university's rights to the inventions of its employees. The precedent from the 1700s, that a person owns his ideas, still holds. At Stanford, Mark Holodniy and others had invented a method, ...
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Museum Spotlights History of Davis Industry
Patch.com
By Brian Elsasser The Hattie Weber Museum is opening its fall exhibition season Saturday with a celebration of inventions. Davis has a long tradition of nurturing innovators, people who saw a way to enrich themselves, or just make a living by making ...
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Kinetic artist David Lang's work is always moving
Daily News Transcript
Subtitled "Inventions, Contraptions and Flights of Fancy," it runs through Oct. 2. On Sept. 17 and 18, Lang will discuss his work at 3 pm "I try to remember to look at things the way my grandchildren do. You never know when and whether things are going ...
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Kodak worth more in breakup because of $3 billion in patents
Buffalo News
By Danielle Kucera and Rita Nazareth Eastman Kodak Co. may hold patents worth five times more than the business itself, making the 131-year-old camera company a target in the billion-dollar hunt for inventions used in mobile phones. ...
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Buffalo News

Fan bikes, hovercrafts and other wacky inventions from Seattle's ThingOut geek ...
GeekWire
Of course, they bring their homegrown inventions out of the basement. That was the scene Saturday in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood as a group of inventors displayed their wares to the public at ThingOut, showing off everything from a liquid nitrogen ...
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GeekWire

How RI Ranks in Generating Patents - Are We Innovative?
GoLocalProv
“According to the 2003 Arab Human Development Report, between 1980 and 1999 the nine leading Arab economies registered 370 patents (in the US) for new inventions. Patents are a good measure of a society's education quality, entrepreneurship, ...
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GoLocalProv

Hong Kong Prepares for World's Largest Electronics Fair
Dealerscope
One new zone is the "Invention Zone" with new inventions from Hong Kong, the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. The other is the "Mobile Device and Accessories Zone" with "smart" devices. Returning will be the popular "Green Electronics Square," the "Silver ...
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Hey, They're All Just PCs
Technologizer
By Harry McCracken | Monday, August 22, 2011 at 3:31 am For one of the most successful, profitable, all-around-important inventions of all time, the PC has never gotten much respect. People have been announcing that its time is over almost since its ...
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Pingdingshan applied for 679 patents in six months
China Daily
Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs. ...
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Software patents: foolish business
The Guardian
Busy approving patents for trivial non inventions with plenty of prior art of course. I've read predictions that in 5 or 10 years, Microsoft could end up as predominantly a patent protection entity, rather than a software company. A bit over the top, ...
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After cybersource - software inventions still patentable - precise claim ...
Lexology (registration)
By David J. Thibodeau, Jr and Joshua S. Matloff Patent claims that recite a “computer readable medium … containing program instructions for a computer to perform” a sequence of steps have become a popular way to cover software implemented inventions ...
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Dragons' Den - Series 9 - Episode 4
BBC News
Some of the nations' budding businessmen and women have already entered the Den, but so far not all of their products and inventions have received a rave reception. This episode sees more intrepid entrepreneurs climb the stairs in the hope of realising ...
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BBC News


New Energy's Latest SolarWindow(TM) Coatings for Generating Electricity Lead ...
MarketWatch (press release)
New Energy researchers have made many significant technical strides, culminating in inventionsthat are the subject of 10 new patent applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Among such SolarWindow(TM)-related inventions is the ...
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How and Why I Teach in Prisons, Part Four
Huffington Post (blog)
Any overall strategy would need to deal with keeping kids in school by structuring the curriculum around topics they want to learn about -- such as entrepreneurship and making money, sales and marketing, inventions and business organization. ...
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TV Wasteland: WhoĆ¢€™s Coming Back
Mania
The team seeks to protect an Alpha who creates wondrous inventions that the wrong people could turn into terrible weapons… like the Death by Chocolate-inator or the Fluffy Kitten gas. Those are some fine-ass dinosaurs, Mr. Spielberg. Well done. ...
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Justin Timberlake, Andrew Niccol Talk In Time
This Is Fake DIY
And this invention is the death of all other inventions. We like to say in the movie that the poor die and the rich don't live. The poor have no time to create anything new, so there are no new cars, no new technology, and the rich have no incentive. ...
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Poor boy now successful inventor
Shanghai Daily (subscription)
"My inventions have a common aim - to save energy, both electricity and water," Gao says. "Inventions need imagination and a heart that wants a better life for everyone." Gao was born in a poor family that made a living weaving fishing nets in Chaohu ...
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Radical Surgery to Fix Software Patents
Enterprise Irregulars
Here is the money quote: Every invention is “just math” when it comes right down to it — traditional mechanical inventions are really just the physical embodiments of specific algorithms. In other words, I may invent a splendidly complex and unique ...
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This Week: TV (Aug. 22-29)
About - News & Issues
The team must locate and protect a missing young Alpha who has an affinity for amazinginventions. Guest starring Summer Glau. Doctor Who "Let's Kill Hitler" 608 (BBCA, Sat Aug 27 9 pm). The Doctor meets Adolf Hitler in 1930s Berlin, where he also ...
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The Right Wing Threat to Technological Innovation and America's Wealth
Huffington Post
All of these recent inventions were built on public- private partnership. The internet began as a Defense Department project. In the 21st century, much of the basic science that improves our lives begins in America's still dominant research ...
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UC income from tuition will surpass state funding for the first time
Los Angeles Times
Under consideration are efforts to boost private and alumni donations; reap more financial rewards from inventions and companies born in UC labs; and develop online classes that would attract a broader paying audience. The university also is seeking to...
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Los Angeles Times


Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
Working Knowledge
While Lerner says more work must be done to determine the best ways to develop prize competitions to maximize participation, the evidence shows that they can be a valuable approach to spurring new inventions—whether you are designing a new plow or ...
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P&F High Pole – ABBC, ACAD, ACTG, AMAT, AMSWA
Retirement Planning
Its operating subsidiaries assist patent owners with the prosecution and development of their patent portfolios, the protection of their patented inventions from unauthorized use, the generation of licensing revenue from users of their patented ...
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Bendigo Inventor Awards
Bendigo Advertiser
Book your FREE ticket at the Capital Theatre on 5434 6100 - Hurry tickets are limited. Come in and see the inventions, talk to the inventors and hear their stories. Choose your favourite and vote for them in the People's Choice Award!
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Should doctors treat loved ones?
Salon
Human ingenuity has given us means of enhancing our brains through inventions such as written language, printing and the Internet ... And we are all aware of the abilities to enhance our brains with adequate exercise, nutrition and sleep ... drugs ...
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Salon

Mark Pesce: Smartphone Nation
ABC Technology and Games
We play with our smartphones and get brainwaves, turning those ideas into apps, spreading them widely, changing the way people think, resulting in new inventions and new apps, in a wonderful cycle of innovation with no end in sight. ...
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ABC Technology and Games


Connecting Africa with Broad Band and Fiber Optics / Afri-Tech Technology ...
StarAfrica.com
Dr Mensah holds more than seven pioneering inventions in Fibre Optics Technology all awarded in six years. His innovations were critical to the Broadband and Fibre Optics infrastructure deployment in the United States. “He is one of the leaders in ...
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AtatĆ¼rk and his contribution to humanity
Hurriyet Daily News
AtatĆ¼rk's vision for his country and the world was the separation of state and religion and “Peace at Home, Peace Abroad”, a more meaningful contribution to humanity than Einstein's inventions. Yet, today and in the second decade of the 21st Century, ...
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Isolated human DNA molecules are patent eligible, cancer screening methods are not
Lexology (registration)
The Court also refused to change the longstanding practice of the PTO who has been issuing patents on DNA molecules for almost 30 years: "If the law is to be changed, and DNA inventions excluded from the broad scope of §101 contrary to the settled ...
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Man Claims Invention Company Misled Him - Local News - Greenville ...
Ken Crenshaw invented a device that he says will ensure privacy in public bathrooms. But Crenshaw says getting that device to market is proving to be an ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../man-claims-invention-company-misl...
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