Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Many of the proposals for carbon nanotubes implementation in display applications have taken advantage of nanotubes capability to act as electron emitting materials for field emission displays. An alternative use of carbon nanotubes for displays is as a replacement for the transparent electrode materials such as ITO used in liquid ...
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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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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Last week several news sources including the New York Times and CBS News, as well as various popular science journals including Scientific American and EETimes, reported on the May 1 publication in Nature by Hewlett Packard scientists describing the discovery of the "memristor", a fourth fundamental circuit element after the ...
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