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Aug 20, 2011

INVENTIONS News, Aug 20, 2011


Specialist Patent Courts Are Part Of The Problem
Forbes
The right to useful inventions seems with equal reason to belong to the inventors. The public good fully coincides in both cases with the claims of the individuals.” Who pays you to write these propaganda pieces? Giant banks, multinationals ...
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DOST showcases best regional inventions
Philippine Information Agency
TACLOBAN CITY Leyte, August 20 (PIA) –- In order to recognize the vital role of local investors, the Department of Science and Technology is set to showcase the best inventions in the various Regions of the country through the Regional Invention ...
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Recent Scholarship: Do Patents Disclose Useful Information?
Patently-O
By Jason Rantanen There is a significant body of recent scholarly literature questioning whether patents are effective at disclosing technological information about new inventions. This debate is important because one of the principal justifications ...
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So How Do We Fix The Patent System?
Techdirt
Recognize that independent invention is a sign of lack of patentability: This one is a bit more controversial, but the point of the patent system is supposedly only to reward patents on inventionsthat are non-obvious to those skilled in the art. ...
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No truce in patent wars
Financial Post
For industry stalwarts such as Microsoft Corp., Research In Motion Ltd. and Apple Inc., the stockpiling of 10s of thousands of incredibly specific inventions has been going on throughout their corporate lifetimes. Recent billion-dollar battles are ...
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Cane 2.0: The Tacit Is Hand-Mounted Sonar For The Vision Impaired
TechCrunch
As is increasingly common with interesting hacked inventions like this, he has published the parts list, detailed instructions, a circuit diagram, and the source code for the Arduino controller. Hoefer says the system has a learning curve of “seconds,” ...
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Finding a different route to the Internet
Ocala
The telephone is truly one of the most remarkable and useful inventions ever. I also had Internet access through the phone company. We switched over to complete cable TV connections for our communications needs. Our telephone service is now tied into ...
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Film Review: You Are Here (2.5 stars)
National Post (blog)
You Are Here presents an alternative reality in which humans are increasingly getting lost in their own inventions. “This used to be a room. But it's not just a room anymore. When did it stop being a room, and start being something else? ...
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Area Inventor Designs GPS Extender
Santa Barbara Independent
“There are some other inventions that move the GPS device forward, but can't move it out of the way. I wanted to create something that both extends and retracts.” “Safe driving is a prerequisite for all motorists, and everyone on the roads benefits,” ...
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Is barter right for your small business?
NASDAQ
In his landmark 1776 book, Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith called money one of the three greatinventions, including the written word and mathematics. Money has helped businesses grow more efficiently, markets expand more dynamically and nations trade ...
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Tales of the Wilson Ranch: a Rural Carlsbad Childhood from 1942-1958
Patch.com
Not having ready access to equipment that one might need, or the tedium of daily life, can lead to wonderful inventions of the mechanical kind. Charles Wilson invented equipment for the farm, as well as altered many of the existing machines/equipment ...
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Hidden Valley® Original Ranch® Salad Dressing & Seasoning Mix Honored for Its ...
CisionWire (press release)
Each year a new class of inventors is inducted into the Hall of Fame in recognition of their patentedinventions that make human, social, and economic progress possible. Founded in 1973 by the US Patent and Trademark Office and the National Council of ...
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Indian inventor blends chair into trolley bag
Gulf Times
The school dropout, who was described as a 'scientist' by the globally acclaimed rocket scientist and India's former President APJ Abdul Kalam, has many inventions and patents to his credit. Hydraulic hinged pole, hanging car park, retractable safety ...
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Engineering in the Twenty-First Century
Harvard Magazine
MiĆ©ville has a wild imagination and proclivity for making up new worlds and languages; one of his most thought-provoking inventions is the idea of “remaking” humans as a form of legal punishment or personal augmentation. ...
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KOOBFACE Botnet Exploits a Torrent P2P Network
pc1news
It was lately reported that the KOOBFACE botnet, which used social networking pages to spread malicious inventions, is now using a torrent P2P network. To enter a targeted computer, the botnet is found to use a component which helps for downloading...
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Edison's arrival in Schenectady being marked today
San Antonio Express
The Daily Gazette of Schenectady reports (http://bit.ly/nnn1Td ) that Edison came to Schenectady to establish a manufacturing operation that would produce his inventions in a more efficient manner. Six years later, Edison's company merged with another ...
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Senator leaves Roosevelt students dreaming big -8/19/2011, 10:01 AM
Hays Daily News
Roosevelt teachers wore tie-dyed T-shirts touting peace, love and learning in keeping with the school's focus on the 1960's inventions and famous people. This year's theme is "Dream Big." Second-grade teacher Kim Lyon introduced Moran, saying "he knows ...
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Ton Duc Thang Prizes awarded in HCMC
SGGP
Despite his busy work load and umpteen responsibilities within the company, he was still able to create many useful inventions that saved billions of dong for the corporation. He recalls, “In 2009, I faced a huge challenge in the market. ...
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Bone Scaffold: Medicine's Next Big Thing?
KSAT San Antonio
What we are looking at here is a lot of inventions that have a potential for marketing, but really need to get through prototyping and development so that it can be a part of some self-directed clinical trials. Our way of looking at this process is ...
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Goff gets wild at leadership rumours
Stuff.co.nz
These things are great inventions; people have been speculating on that for three years. "I'm the leader of the Labour Party. I'll lead this party into the election campaign this year and I'll look at forming a government after that. ...
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The Wright Brothers Didn't Invent The Airplane...And 9 Other Inventors Who've ...
Business Insider
Fame and fortune sometimes require more than brains and effort, especially in the realm of invention. Whether modified and improved upon, grabbed by a more famous inventor, or just completely forgotten, original inventors are lost to history more than ...
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Business Insider
Greg Coogle's patented technologies do more than just beat the heat!
The Suit Magazine
his inventions keep air conditioners running more efficiently. “A lot of people don't realize an air conditioner does two things: it cools and dehumidifies. That drain water is a problem. It grows algae and mold which, if left untreated, ...
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U of M receives positive review of its tech transfer program
Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
The U files 33 percent of its incoming inventions in provisional patents, compared to Stanford, Columbia and Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation which files 50 to 75 percent. This could result in the office paying $500000 more each year, ...
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Opinion: Nature is New Jersey's best classroom to inspire dreams
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Nature has, in the past, inspired our best dreams and inventions and can continue to help us create a better world if we use our combined knowledge, our senses — including our common sense — and our appreciation for all nature has provided.
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False Moves
Santa Barbara Independent
The consequences of these inventions have been equally serious – eight years of bloody, costly, unnecessary war in Iraq; and a health care system that many Americans distrust for the wrong reasons, based on false rhetoric. When Emily Dickinson wrote, ...
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DEALTALK-Mosaid shareholders want to taste sweeter WiLan bid
Reuters
WiLan wants to buy Mosaid for its 2800 patents, creating a Canadian patent powerhouse able to negotiate lucrative terms with technology giants that use the inventions in products ranging from wireless to semiconductors. They're not alone in eyeing more ...
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Genome at Home: Biohackers Build Their Own Labs
Wired News
Behind the scenes, engineers and science enthusiasts are teaming up to mod tools and technologies and then sell their inventions—or simply share tips on how to build them—to anyone interested. Homemade PCR devices are drawing the most attention,...
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Wired News
Taming the patent troll
Financial Times
Myhrvold runs Intellectual Ventures, a company which is either the world's worst patent troll or a leader in creating a market for inventions, depending on who you listen to. Myhrvold, with law professor Mark Lemley, has argued that when patents are ...
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Financial Times
Take a Page . . .
Omaha World-Herald
"Familiar characters (Cotton Malone) solving a modern-day mystery that reveals ancient Chinese society and inventions." "Whether you have pets or not, this is an engaging story about reincarnation and life seen through a dog's eyes. ...
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Fiction Chronicle
New York Times
His father, who designs lifts for gold mine shafts, is seemingly resigned to his son's inertia, hiding in his attic work space to tinker with new inventions. And the narrator, who pines over his brother's abandoned girlfriend, tries along with everyone ...
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Codecademy 'gamifies' the process of learning Javascript
Wired.co.uk
The work of Ryan Bubinski, a recent Columbia University graduate, and Zach Sims, who has just completed his junior year also at Columbia, Codecademy, like many good inventions, is the product of frustation. Speaking to Wired.co.uk, Sims explains the ...
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Summer Glau as Skylar in 'Alphas.' (Ken Woroner/Syfy)
San Antonio Express (blog)
In Monday's episode “Catch and Release,” Glau plays a missing Alpha named Skylar who can create amazing inventions that apparently don't include a decent brush or hairdryer. It's up to the rest of the Alphas to find her — and hopefully introduce her ...
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San Antonio Express (blog)
Inventions - Visual News
For instance, the world's first x-ray technician and inventor may have given the medical industry the greatest single invention since the pre-existing ...
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Latest News of the World (stories politics inventions creations ...
Latest News of the World (stories politics inventions creations discovery jobs films jobs). Saturday. A real attack of an elephant on crowd - Dont Scard, ...
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Motorola's 83 years of inventions - Topix
Local News: Mountain View, CA ... Email me Inventions news. Learn more. Comments ... This will search the titles of the threads in the Inventions forum ...
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Father of Invention - Action News 5 - Memphis, Tennessee
Action News 5 - Memphis, TennesseeFather of Invention. Member Center: Create Account|; Log In; Manage Account|; Log Out. SITE SEARCH WEB SEARCH BY Google ...
www.wmctv.com/story/15300114/father-of-invention
Hacker News | Most (nearly all?) inventions aren't revolutionary ...
inventions aren't revolutionary in their novelty but are just an increment above what already existed. So I'm agreeing with you but want to make sure the ...
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Father of Invention - 12 News KBMT and K-JAC. News, Weather and ...
12 News and 12Newsnow.com is the leader for breaking news, weather updates and complete localnews coverage for Southeast Texas.Get the latest Southeast ...
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RUSSIA News, Aug 20, 2011


From Russia's rivers with love
Vancouver Sun
By Jeannine Williamson, Vancouver Sun August 20, 2011 2:21 AM Russia's two greatest cities,Moscow and St Petersburg, are around 370 miles apart as the crow flies - a comparatively tiny distance in the vast 6.6 million square miles of the world's ...
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Russia squad retained for Euro qualis next month
Fox News
Midfielders: Diniyar Belyaletdinov (Everton), Denis Glushakov (Lokomotiv Moscow), Dmitry Torbinskiy (Lokomotiv Moscow), Igor Denisov (Zenit St.Petersburg), Roman Shirokov (Zenit St.Petersburg), Konstantin Zyryanov (Zenit St.Petersburg), Alan Dzagoyev ...
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St. Petersburg Scandal: A 'Secret' Election
Wall Street Journal
"Even by Russian standards, there's a large number of layers." Local and federal election commissions said the election hadn't been properly announced, but that underRussia's legal code, that doesn't stop an election from going forward. ...
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Wall Street Journal
This Week in Review
Russia Profile
Russia may have the world's largest land mass, but Muscovites still sometimes feel like they live somewhere in Japan. Moscow remains one of world leaders in housing density, the lack of living space is still felt in the Russian capital, ...
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Russia Profile
DFA: Pinoy Jailed in Moscow repatriated
GMANews.TV
“Garcia told the Filipino seafarer that his early release was the positive result of the combination of good relations between the Philippines and Russia, the cooperation between the relevant Russiangovernment agencies and the Philippine embassy, ...
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End of Supporting Story Content
CBC.ca
Russian President Boris Yeltsin, right, speaks with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev during Gorbachev's address to the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation inMoscow, Aug. 23, 1991, a day after the end of the attempted coup. ...
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CBC.ca
Wingspan Holidays plans to woo Leisure traffic to Russia through Bollywood
TravelBizMonitor
“The major segment of travellers visiting Russia is MICE and most of them visit Moscow and StPetersburg. We are working with the Russian Consulate to carry out advertising and marketing campaigns in India to reach out to both the consumers and the ...
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Zenit eye RPL lead as Dinamo look to reel in top two against Anzhi
RIA Novosti
Zenit St. Petersburg go into this weekend's Russian Premier League matches knowing a slip from leaders CSKA Moscow could see them tie for points in top place, and they have extra motivation after spurning that very opportunity last week. ...
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Night before Soviet coup, a shot in the dark
Washington Post
PETERSBURG, Russia – All was quiet on the evening of Aug. 18, 1991, at Oleg Basilashvili's dacha in the northern countryside. He describes it today with a flair for the dramatic, but why not? He was — and is — one of Russia's most respected actors, ...
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world of interiors
The Australian
The tour begins in Beijing and includes travel by train through Mongolia and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Special offer from $12495 a person twin-share, including transfers, accommodation in hotels and aboard trains, most meals, tour director, ...
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Soviet N-force was on ''red alert'' during anti-Gorbachev coup
MSN India
Russia today marks two decades since Soviet hardliners precipitated the demise of the USSR with a botched coup in 1991. 80-year-old Gorbachev, who was held captive in Crimea''s seaside Foros resort two decades ago, today is a marginal figure in Russian ...
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WARPLANES: B-52 Cold War Mission Finally Completed
Strategy Page
August 20, 2011: After preparing to do it for over half a century, an American B-52 will finally fly toMoscow from North America, using the shortest route (over the North Pole). This flight to Russia is not the first for B-52s, but it is the first ...
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ZAZ to sing in Russia
The Voice of Russia
A rising star of the French pop scene Isabelle Geffroy, more known as ZAZ, will come to Russia for the first time this autumn. She'll sing in Moscow and St. Petersburg. ZAZ became extremely popular after she posted her clip “Le Veux” (“I Want”) on the ...
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The Voice of Russia
Yekaterinburg inaugurates World Cup stadium
The Voice of Russia
Russia is building or refurbishing more than a dozen stadiums for hosting matches of the 2018 World Cup. The host cities are Moscow, St Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Saransk, Yaroslavl, Rostov-on-Don, ...
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The Voice of Russia
Triumph of Putin's will
Winnipeg Free Press
Youth summer camp in Nilova Pustyn, Russia. (SERGEI L. LOIKO / MCT) In this sprawling Kremlin-sponsored youth camp 300 kilometres northwest of Moscow — white sands, tall pines and Lake Seliger, a jewel of Russian nature — thousands of young men and ...
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The Tor de force of river cruising
Vancouver Sun
You get taken right into the centre of beautiful cities - Moscow, St Petersburg, Budapest, Vienna - and you only have to unpack once. Everything is taken care of. Tips are the only thing we don't include in the price." The figures appear to back this ...
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Russia foiled militant attack on bullet train: report - World news ...
MOSCOW — Russian authorities have foiled a plot by militants who were building ... train betweenMoscow and St. Petersburg, a newspaper reported on Monday. ...
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Russia squad retained for Euro qualis next month - Football news
August 19, 2011 — MOSCOW (AP) — The Russia team that beat Serbia 1-0 in a ... Igor Akinfeev (CSKA Moscow), Vyacheslav Malafeev (Zenit St.Petersburg). ...
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Russian security forces foil Islamist terror plot to bomb train ...
Russian security forces foil Islamist terror plot to bomb train. By Alissa de Carbonnel, Moscow(Reuters). Tuesday, August 16, 2011. RUSSIAN authorities ...
www.irishexaminer.com/.../russian-security-forces-foil-islamist...
Kiev triumphs: Russia closed the case against the Ukrainian ...
Home » Political news » Kiev triumphs: Russia closed the case against the ... closed the criminal case against the Library of Ukrainian Literature in Moscow and its ... In St. Petersburg, in districts where the running for Matvienko, ...
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ITAR-TASS : EBRD to invest considerable funds in Russia's road ...
The St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency (SPTA), the first official news agency of .... MOSCOW, August 18 (Itar-Tass) —— The state company Russian Motor Roads ...
www.itar-tass.com/en/c154/206602.html
News from AP | The Dallas Morning News, dallasnews.com
AAA Aug. 9, 2011 8:58 AM ET Russian ruble drops to 6-month low ... Women walk past a display of a currency exchange bureau in St.Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. ... More News; Video.MOSCOW (AP) — The ruble lost more than 3 percent of ...
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