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Aug 16, 2011

INVENTIONS News, Aug 16, 2011


DOSTSec. Montejo to grace 2011 Reg'l Invention Contests in Cebu City
Philippine Information Agency
by Fayette C. RiƱen CEBU CITY, August 15 (PIA) -- Science and Technology Secretary Mario Montejo will grace the three-day 2011 Regional Invention Contests and Exhibits in Cebu City that will kick off on Wednesday, August 17. ...
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MASTERS OF INVENTION
Express.co.uk
Like all inventions it came about because of a problem. One hot summer's day on a long car journey I had been trying to feed my own dog mouthfuls of water from my hand because using a bowl wasn't practical. When I got home I googled non-spill dog bowls ...
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UTP Bags Five Gold At INPEX 2011 In USA
Bernama
The 26th INPEX was held at the Monroeville Convention Center and UTP was represented by the following researchers and their inventions: Associate Professor (AP) Dr Shamsul Rahman (Single Sludge Activated Bio Reactor), AP Dr Shamsul Rahman (Rotating ...
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Bernama
The spiel thing
New York Post
By BRIAN MOORE The workplace is full of would-be Thomas Edisons, folks who toil in a cubicle by day but by night ponder inventions that will set the world afire and stuff their bank accounts with cash. Trouble is, there's a vast chasm between idea and ...
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New York Post
Interpreting the Scope of Patent Assignments Beyond Family Members
Patently-O
The McLaughlin assignment purported to assign “the inventions and discoveries set forth in [a different patent] application.” The parties all admitted that the assignment language was broad enough to encompass more than just the single application ...
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Motorola purchase gives Google 17K issued, 7.5K filed patents
Apple Insider
Many of those inventions are related to wireless standards, but a number of patents are also considered non-essential. Jha said that's important, because it's non-essential patents that are required to deliver competitive products to market. ...
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RIM's BlackBerry gets stamped by Canada Post
MobileSyrup.com
In total there are four inventions that were honoured: Electric Oven, Pacemaker, Electric Wheelchair and the BlackBerry. Curious why the BlackBerry smartphone made the cut? In the description it was because in “1999, when Research in Motion (RIM) ...
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Scales of success: Gekko thinks small to grow big
The Australian Journal of Mining
So we opened the doors and I started trying to sell his [Gray's] inventions. “I applied for funding in May 1995, under a research and development grant – a Federal Government funded program, where you put in 50% of your money and 50% of [the ...
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'Pally' good show for the Royal Mail
The Star
The state owned postal service has been running trials with Loadhog's Pally & Lid system, which combines two of the Brightside-based firm's inventions. A plastic pallet with retractable wheels – the Pally – is loaded with trays full of mail that are ...
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The Star
Core77 Design Award 2011: Bell Labs Global Whiteboard, Winner for Interactive ...
Core77.com (blog)
It showcases the lab's legacy of innovations and recent inventions. It reveals connections between their past innovations, including the telephone and fiber optic cable and newer innovations like advances in green energy and cell phone technology....
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Core77.com (blog)
Rumored Apple iPhone 5 Pico Projector Patent Channels the SixthSense Concept ...
The iPhone 5 News Blog (blog)
They are believed to be the progenitors of vanguard inventions, with Steve Jobs as the closest thing this generation has to Thomas Edis0n or Leonardo da Vinci. Patently Apple's slogan says it all: “Celebrating Apple's Spirit of Invention. They Imagine. ...
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Protect all that is vital to your firm
nebusiness.co.uk
You may be surprised at how many aspects of your business can be protected – its name, logo, designs, inventions, works of creative or intellectual effort or trademarks that distinguish your business can all be types of IP. IP rights are possibly the ...
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Are software patents the "scaffolding of the tech industry"?
Ars Technica
Former Engadget editor Nilay Patel argued that there's no distinction between software and hardware, and that patents benefit the public by causing inventors to disclose their inventions. Michael Mace of Cera Technology argued that patents protect ...
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Apple-Google Duel Over Mobile Supremacy Drives Patent Lawyer Demand: Tech
Bloomberg
(2498) and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. Cupertino, California-based Apple has accused all three of copying iPhone inventions and filed patent-infringement complaints in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. “We need to protect Apple's intellectual ...
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Things to do in O.C. this week (Aug. 15-18)
OCRegister
Drop-in Family Art Inventions: Kidseum's Art Lab provides a hands-ons experience for children ages 4 and up by creating innovative and unique art projects on Tuesday, August 16 from 12-4 pm at Bowers Kidseum, 1802 N. Main St., Santa Ana. ...
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The Google-Moto Losers: InterDigital & Kodak (GOOG, MMI, IDCC, EK)
24/7 Wall St. (blog)
“Our know-how and inventions reach across virtually all mobile and wireless devices. InterDigital holds approximately 8800 US and foreign issued patents combined. In addition, we have almost 10000 patent applications in process around the world. ...
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Cheap Robots vs. Cheap Labor
New York Times
The tractor and other farming inventions pushed millions of Americans off the farms. Computers displaced clerical workers. These breakthroughs created better-paid jobs for educated workers. But it's unsettling to see cutting-edge labor-saving ...
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Google has Red Fort doodle to mark Independence Day
Times of India
... Minar-e-Pakistan or the National Tower of Pakistan. Google never misses a chance to feature doodles on its homepage on important days. The doodles were creatively designed to commemorate important holidays, inventions, artists and sporting events.
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Summit County: BMF performances this week
Summit Daily News
The octet is rhythmically complex and extremely diverse in its influences, drawing from Gregorian chant, Haydn Symphonies, and Bach's Two-part Inventions. Despite the high opus number, the Octet for Winds in E Flat Major is still considered early for ...
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Minister says five-fold increase needed in sci-tech investment
Thanh Nien Daily
Quan said that the Ministry of Science and Technology has proposed a plan to help scientists and officials in the field earn a better living by allowing them to earn money from their inventions by signing contracts with potential investors.
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Thanh Nien Daily
The elusive big idea
NEXT
No doubt there will be those who say that the big ideas have migrated to the marketplace, but there is a vast difference between profit-making inventions and intellectually challenging thoughts. Entrepreneurs have plenty of ideas, and some, ...
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Putting SpotON3D's patent into perspective
Hypergrid Business
IBM makes very clear that these investments are for inventions, but also for licensing (source: IBM patents webpage). Here is a partial list of patents from IBM using the search terms: abst/“virtual world” and abst/“virtual world” AND IBM: Patent No. ...
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Gurkha Kitchen
LeftLion
With both Indian and Nepalese dishes on offer, the menu includes Andeep's traditional family recipes as well as his own culinary inventions. The place is so authentic that the spices are sent over on a regular basis from the home country by Andeep's ...
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LeftLion
Fog catcher and academics in patent dispute
Times LIVE
He said that their benefactor, the Water Research Commission, wanted to retain patent rights over the inventions. Evans said he and his business partners had earlier agreed that all future contracts would be handled by Cloud Water Concepts cc, ...
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National Electrification Awareness Month
Sun.Star
Dr. Jacqueline Lampac, head teacher VI Science Department, called on Beneco to include in their program discovering student scientists and sponsor patents or inventions useful in electrification. DepEd Science supervisor Esther Melecio informed media ...
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Blinded by Science
Walrus Magazine
Not surprisingly, these inventions resulted in dire outcomes: “The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off,” read one Wall Street Journal headline. Today the best examples of science spin can be found in more frivolous corners of health care: ...
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Walrus Magazine
Justice For Viktor Bout! – OpEd
Eurasia Review
It's not so much that Russian bureaucrats aren't aware of the problems faced by certain state institutions – it's rather the eagerness to dismiss them as fictional inventions of their enemies mixed with some classic nationalism leads reaches positively ...
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Eurasia Review
US OPINION: Spies in toy land
Toy News
We file extensive patent applications on our new toy ideas, use non-disclosure agreements regularly, and exercise considerable care with regard to whom we reveal our yet-to-be-marketed inventions. It is hard to be too cautious about these things. ...
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Toy News
10-Q: INKSURE TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Although our policy is to file patent applications to protect technology, inventions and improvements that are important to the development of our business, and although we will continue to seek the supplemental protection afforded by patents, ...
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US Patents Awarded to Inventors in Wisconsin (Aug. 14)
TMC Net
The abstract of the patent published by the US Patent and Trademark Office states: "The presentinventions relate to water and wastewater treatment devices including stationary cloth filter media support structures forming effluent plenums for the ...
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Columbus Local News: Gahanna News > News > Camp Invention ...
YOUR hometown newspaper: ... Camp Invention gets kids' brains going for fall ... clocks and other small appliances to brainstorm and create new inventions. ...
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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Economic and Financial Crisis, Aug 16, 2011


European Union Debt Crisis Stings France, Putting US Banks at Risk
Money Morning
"It boils down to a crisis of confidence. We haven't seen policy makers come out with a plan that is viewed as comprehensive, coordinated and credible." Such worries have crushed the stocks of French banks in recent days, with financial giant Societe ...
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Currency Risk: Mitigation of Portfolio Risks in Times of Crisis
Seeking Alpha
An increasingly popular alternative for additional money is Treasury bills, a safe haven in a time ofcrisis. Treasury obligations are safer than money in the bank or held by a brokerage as there are no limitations to the amount guaranteed. ...
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The EU's Political Integration Dilemma
Council on Foreign Relations
Is last month's July 21 agreement to expand the temporary European FinancialStability Fund (EFSF) a step in the right direction? It won't be sufficient to solve the debt crisis we are in at the moment. But it's a substantial move forward because more...
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Council on Foreign Relations
French problems persist
FXstreet.com
Stock markets were hit hard, particularly financial stocks with one French bank Societe Generale falling by as much as 23% in one day! As I write this policy makers are announcing plans to ban short selling of financial stocks in response to the sharp ...
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Who Is to Blame if Shares Continue Steep Declines?
New York Times
It was not, of course, a coincidence that the rumors then were about banks. After Lehman Brothers collapsed, short-selling of financial stocks was banned. It bolstered stock prices for a while, but did nothing to halt the rot that really was spreading ...
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Don't invest everything on gold, say economists
Malay Mail
Following the drop in the US dollar, consumers are displaying greater confidence in gold which is considered the best investment in view of the US debt crisis. However, economists say despite its rising cost, gold remains an investment liability. ...
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Newspaper Briefing, including 'Weak business confidence still jeopardising ...
Proactive Investors UK
Global debt crisis: Markets enter new danger zone: Investors worldwide have lost confidence ineconomic leadership, driving financial markets into a new danger zone, the head of the WorldBank has warned ahead of a crucial meeting that could shape the ...
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GOLDMAN COMMENT: Looking through the fo
EmergingMarkets.me
In the GS Global Leading Indicator (GLI), the change in US weekly job claims is one of the more powerful components and has a good statistical track record in foreshadowing changes in the USstock market. With the weakness of the financial sector, ...
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Fledgling giants
Fundweb
One solution found by the firm has been to focus on investments originated by international financial institutions, like the World Bank or the Inter-American Development Bank. As such, investments managed by the firm can enjoy a level of protection ...
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Fundweb
Stocks Rise on Takeovers as Debt Risk Falls
Bloomberg
The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond climbed 2 basis points. Global demand for US stocks,bonds and other financial assets weakened in June from a month earlier as the White House and Congress wrangled over raising the debt limit, government figures ...
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Toronto Stock Exchange heads higher, extends relief rally on two big deals
660 News
Wall Street also headed higher following its wildest week since the 2008 financial crisis. The Dow gained 110.9 points to 11379.9, the Nasdaq gained 14.44 points to 2522.42 and the S&P index was up 13.05 points at 1191.85. Indexes turned positive at ...
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