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Patent: Nintendo's Wii Football Controller

Patent: Nintendo's Wii Football Controller

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nintendo has come up with yet another idea for an accessory to add to its list of Wii peripherals. This time it's a soft football-shaped controller that is said to simulate the feel and touch ...


China searches for high-tech leap forward

Technology / Hi Tech

created Aug 09, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

The manicured lawns and carefully sculpted buildings of Huawei's headquarters are a far cry from the sweatshop image of southern China's factory belt.


Faster, better patent processing

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Processing patents is complex and time-consuming. Using semantic web technology, researchers have come up with a powerful tool to process patents faster and better.





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Social patents: Using online social networks to handle patent applications

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Experts in intellectual property and patents explain in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation how tools, such as online social networking could be used to eradicate the en ...


Patent fight in India centers on AIDS drug

Medicine & Health /

created May 11, 2006 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A patent application covering tenofovir, a major AIDS drug, has started a major patent fight in India.


DNA Fingerprinting Identifies Bean in Patent Dispute

Biology /

created May 27, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A UC Davis plant scientist played a key role in settling a controversial intellectual property dispute that resulted in the recent rejection of a nine-year-old U.S. patent for a common yellow bean that originated in Mexico.


NRL scientist receives patent for rugged-lightweight spectrometer assembly

NRL scientist receives patent for rugged-lightweight spectrometer assembly

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Space Science Division scientist, Dr. Christoph R. Englert, is awarded patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a more cost effective, rugged and lightweight ...


Commercial yeasts upgraded with an enzyme for biofuel production

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Eckhard Boles, co-founder of the Swiss biofuel company Butalco GmbH and a professor at Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany, has discovered a new enzyme which teaches yeast cells to ferment xylose into ethanol. Xylose ...


PTO unveils new patent filing system

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created Mar 16, 2006 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A new electronic patent application filing system to be used by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office was launched Thursday by Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez. Known as EFS-Web, the new system allows patent filers anywhere ...


US Patent Office rejects company's claim for bean commonly grown by Latin American farmers

US Patent Office rejects company's claim for bean commonly grown by Latin American farmers

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 30, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 1

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today rejected all of the patent claims for a common yellow bean that has been a familiar staple in Latin American diets for more than a century.


Answers.com sues Babylon

Technology /

created Mar 09, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Search engine Answers.com has sued Babylon, creators of language-translation software, for copyright infringement and violation of intellectual property.


Software cos. eye key patent case in Supreme Court (AP)

Software cos. eye key patent case in Supreme Court

Technology / Business

created Nov 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(AP) -- With the technology industry looking on, the Supreme Court on Monday will explore what types of inventions should be eligible for a patent in a pivotal case that could undermine such legal protections ...


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Creative Awarded U.S. Patent On User Interface For Portable Media Players

Electronics /

created Aug 31, 2005 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Creative Technology, the Singapore digital entertainment products maker, today announced that it has been awarded U.S. Patent 6,928,433, which Creative is referring to as the "Zen Patent." The Zen Patent was ...



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