Archive for the ‘Patents’ Category
Sunday, September 13th, 2009
Since the late 1990's HPLabs has arguably been the leading corporate contributor to the development of molecular electronics and have obtained numerous patents on the application of molecular switching elements to novel memory and logic systems. However, in recent years HP has shifted directions from molecular switching elements toward resistive thin film switches called ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
Thomas Reuters has released a list of what it calls the hottest areas of R&D in the global intellectual property marketplace. The list includes IP rankings for the biofuels, telecom and bio-related nanotechnology industries which have been experiencing increased growth in the last few years. The report also identifies some of ...
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Basic concepts of a "space elevator" predate the development of rocket-based space travel but have always lacked a practical system or materials to achieve the objective. Recently, as reported in a TimesOnline article, a team of British scientists led by Alan Windle have developed a process for manufacturing carbon nanotube ribbons which ...
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
TinyTechIP has a listing of the top 10 patents in nanotechnology issued over the last year including some basic patents to the memristor, graphene electrodes, and carbon nanotube filaments for lightbulbs.
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
FYI - A complete article from the next issue of Nanotechnology Law & Business is now available online for free public download.
"Patenting Graphene: Opportunities and Challenges" - Andrew Baluch, Bryan Wilson, John C. Miller
From the abstract:
Graphene is emerging as a promising material for a variety of applications. Indeed, it ...
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Friday, July 25th, 2008
NanoDel is a German company involved in the development of nanoparticles for drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier. Researchers from NanoDel have contributed to the scientific investigation of nanoparticles for drug delivery for over a decade and have just recently received a fairly basic patent to the use of polyalkylcyanoacrylate nanoparticles for administering DNA.
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Last week researchers at Hewlett-Packard indicated that their nanoscale crossbar arrays may see commercialization as early as next year in ultra high density non-volatile memory. While the initial research into nanoscale crossbar technology was performed by Stan Williams and Phil Kuekes in the late 1990's, the recent discovery of the "memristor" characterized as ...
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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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