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, February 21st, 2008
You know something is in the works when the government starts name-dropping new acronyms. Ever heard of SEBML? Don't know what SEBML stands for? Well you're in luck! The National Science Foundation (which of course is well known by its own acronym: NSF) has included a request ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Nanotechnology has certainly expanded the realm of scientific possibility, but immortality? A growing number of nano-enthusiasts have prophesied the imminent end of death. I am not among them. These kind of wild-eyed claims have cursed the commercial prospects of promising technologies. Skeptics have marshaled false promises like these to ...
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