Archive for the ‘Intellectual Property’ Category
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
So far 2008 has set a 30 year record for a minimum number of venture backed IPO's (5 in the first quarter and none in the second quarter). Meanwhile a consortium of large technology companies including Verizon, Google, Cisco, HP, and Ericsson have banded together to create Allied Security Trust (AST) which joins the ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Due to the groundbreaking work of Richard Smalley in the fabrication of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes, Rice University has obtained some pretty broad patent protection for carbon nanotubes over the past few years. The majority of the basic carbon nanotube patents from Rice have so far focused on single walled carbon nanotubes, ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
The semiconductor and electronics industry has a serious problem when it comes to patent thickets in which a multitude of different corporations or other patent holding entities each have overlapping patents related to different components of a particular product making commercialization difficult. Nanotechnology patents share and may even amplify this problem due to ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
In Volume 3, Issue 4 of the Nanotechnology Law & Business Journal the carbon nanotube patent landscape was analyzed. The links below provide some updated statistics based on recent U.S. patent data. Some highlights:
- Manufacturing processes involving carbon nanotube fabrication or integration of carbon nanotubes in devices have attracted the largest amount of patent activity ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
There are two basic ways to integrate carbon nanotubes into an electronic device- 1) depositing pre-manufactured carbon nanotubes as part of a solution or coating or 2) directly growing the carbon nanotubes on the device. In either case one critical factor for many applications such as field emission displays, sensors, and transistors is the alignment and ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
The latest issue of Nanotechnology Law & Business includes articles discussing the rise of printable electronics used to cheaply fabricate new generations of electronics on a wider variety of substrates. One example of an application where printable electronics is being applied is RFID tags. Boeing is currently implementing RFID to ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Engadget is one of my favorite blogs. The reason is because they cover topics I am a sucker for, the very topics that made me such a popular guy in high school.....such as field-emittters!
Today, they report that researchers at the University of Illionois Urbana Champaign are able to grow ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Last week I noted that the University of California was the third leading patent holder for U.S. nanotech patents. I thought it would be interesting to take a closer look at some of the data regarding the University of California's nanotech activity.
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
This Tuesday representatives from the U.S. patent office held their annual meeting and provided some statistics regarding recent trends in nanotechnology patenting. Some of the more interesting statistics include:
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
In this recent news item the Supreme Court has asked the Bush administration to weigh in on whether universities should be immune to patent infringement lawsuits based on the 11th amendment to the Constitution, which gives states immunity with respect to federal lawsuits. This issue is particularly important to state universities such as the ...
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