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If the 19th century was the age of coal and the 20th of oil, the 21st will be the age of the sun!
Sun is a bundle of free safe and green energy source available till the day elephant fly and so the solar radiation for generating electricity. The technology barriers have not yet allowed to make breakthrough invention. Sun light is free; can scientist community make electricity from sun for free, if not at cheaper price?
Research are working on dye-sensitized solar cells, which are expected to power Air Force unmanned aircraft in the future because they are an optimum energy harvesting source that may lead to longer flight times without refueling.
Technology:
Using a flexible film and a thin glass coating with transparent conductive electrodes.
Dye-sensitized solar cells made from organic materials, which use (dyes) and moth-eye film, are able to catch photons and convert them into synthesized electrons that can harvest high photon energy.
Advantages:
These kinds of solar cells have more specific power convergence efficiency, very clean energy and easy scalability to a larger skin area of the craft, as well as, low-temperature processing, which leads to lower costs overall.
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A very large percentage of technical information that is generated across the globe reside in the patent databases.
Below chart depicts breakup according to country and application type for major filing countries. Data Source - patentanalysis.com
Data collected through a survey say that there are:
- 72 million patent documents worldwide
- appx. 15 million inventions
- 1,000,000 patent in last 10 years
- Weekly - More than 10,000 new patents
- Every 30 seconds a new patent document is added to the vast technical library of patent documents
The statistics clearly indicates
- Increase in R & D efforts
- Increase in patent filing efforts
- Increase in market coverage through family patent filing
Potential Risks
- Patent grant rate is bound to go down. According to a study, already the Belgium PTO has a 30% grant rate
- Risk of reinventing the wheel, if patentability / prior art search not performed thoroughly
- Large number of patents may get invalidated by other relevant patents thus causing many infringement law suits to become void
- Need of clearance would increase
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Is Microsoft Aging?
Recently, U.S. state of Mississippi settled an antitrust suit with Microsoft Corp for $100 million on Thursday and said businesses, individuals, schools and local government were eligible for a share of the money. Apart from antitrust suit Microsoft was also ordered to pay $521 million to Eolas Technologies, $200 million to a Canadian software firm i4i Ltd and much more to many more companies for patent infringment and offcourse these are all lost battles by Microsoft. Here is the current list of all patent under litigation.
- US5369702 – TECSEC Incorporated – Distributed cryptographic object method
- US6374289 – Backweb Technologies, Ltd. – Distributed client-based data caching system
- US6542814 – Horizon Navigation, Inc. – Methods and apparatus for dynamic point of interest display
- US6195662 – Juxtacomm Technologies Inc. – System for transforming and exchanging data between distributed heterogeneous computer systems
- US6405368 – Method for separate compilation of templates
- US7496854 – Arendi Holding Limited – Method, system and computer readable medium for addressing handling from a computer program
- US6405368 – Method for separate compilation of templates
- US7363592 – Tool group manipulations
The objective and target of any organization is growth at 45 degree on x & Y axis through best products, best services etc… with latest innovations. Ever since recession has hit the western market the economy and jobs are melting like never before, chapter 11 filing cases are increasing. After all to run an organization revenue has to be generated. As newspapers across North America and the globe continue to flood with stories of economic downturn and businesses fighting to survive, organizations this month are placing a renewed focus on innovation and revenue generation.
Revenue generation through patent lawsuits is the new trend. 35 patent lawsuits have been filed just in 5 plus month time during 2009, wonder how many more are there. Surely first half of 2009 is not good for Google in terms of lawsuits, total 14 lawsuit are been battled.
Lawsuit filing cases of 2009:
- Aloft Media, LLC v. Yahoo! Inc. et al
- Performance Pricing, Inc. v. Google Inc. et al
- Leader Technologies Inc. v. Facebook Inc.
- Actus, LLC v. Bank of America Corp. et al
- Paid Search Engine Tools, LLC v. Google, Inc. et al
- ESN LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc. et al
- Heartland Recreational Vehicles LLC v. Forest River Inc
- Software Rights Archive, LLC v. Google Inc. et al
- Northeastern University et al v. Google, Inc.,
- Polaris IP, LLC v. Google Inc. et al
- Function Media, L.L.C. v. Google, Inc. et al
- Aloft Media, LLC v. Google, Inc.
- GraphOn Corporation v. Google Inc.
- Google, Inc. v. EMSAT Advanced Geo-Location Technology, LLC et al
- Picsel (Research) Ltd. et al v. Apple Inc.
- Web Tracking Solutions, Inc. et al v. Google, Inc.
- Association For Molecular Pathology et al v. United States Patent and Trademark Office et al
- Cygnus Systems, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation, et al
- Google Inc. et al v. Egger et al
- Certicom Corporation et al v. Sony Corporation et al
- Klausner Technologies Inc v. Verizon Wireless et al
- Clark v. The Walt Disney Company et al
- HYPERPHRASE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC v. GOOGLE INC.
- BabyAge..com, Inc. v. Leachco, Inc.
- IP Innovation LLC et al v. Google, Inc.
- Elan Microelectronics Corporation v. Apple, Inc.
- Bid for Position, LLC v. AOL, LLC et al
- Soilworks LLC v Midwest Industrial Supply Inc
- Priest et al v Google Inc.
- 21 srl v. Apple Inc. et al
- PACid Group, LLC v. Apple Inc. et al
- Accolade Systems LLC v. Micron Technology Inc et al
- Affinity Labs of Texas, LLC v. Apple, Inc.
- Clear With Computers, LLC v. Bassett Furniture Industries, Inc. et al
- Motorola Inc v. Research In Motion Limited et al
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Today’s headline on yahoo news: “Microsoft will soon unveil free anti-virus software“.
Immediate Market Impact: Symantetc shares fell 0.5 percent on Nasdaq and McAfee fell 1.3 percent on the New York Stock Exchange, while Microsoft was up 2.1 percent. The Nasdaq composite index was down 0.47 percent.
Investors Reaction: Investors are closely monitoring the free service, code-named Morro after Brazil’s Morro de Sao Paolo beach, amid concern it could hurt sales of products from Symantec and McAfee, which generate billions of dollars of revenue a year protecting Windows PCs from attacks by hackers.
Competitors Reaction: Officials with Symantec and McAfee have said they do not see Morro as a threat.
Analyst Reaction: “It’s a long-term competitive threat,” said Daniel Ives, an analyst with FBR Capital Markets, though he added that the near-term impact was minimal.
Is Microsoft attempting to challenge commercial antivirus makers just like OpenOffice.org challenged Microsoft?
Maybe microsoft is planning to make morro an integral part of its OS for future sales strategy. The reason behind comment is below:
The reason that today’s computers and today’s computer networks are so easily infected stems back to a decision made at Microsoft, for marketing reasons.
In other words, we’re all being screwed by Microsoft Marketing. Let me explain. Read full story….
Source: Yahoo news and bnet.com
Finally the Bilski case has gone to US Supreme Court. “Not since 1981 has the Supreme Court undertaken to spell out the kinds of inventions that are eligible for patent rights — that is, the right to produce or use an invented device or process, or to license it to others for royalties. Much has changed since the Court’s decision in Diamond v. Diehr in 1981, not least the digital revolution.”
A study was conducted on the effect of Biliski in various technology patents by an IP, technology and market research company called Dolcera.
Detailed report and statistics have been published at Dolcera Public Reports
The below chart depicts the effect of Biliski on various technology domains.
First Indian Sound Mark Granted
Wonder how many of us have missed this peace of delightful information like me, though the news is not new but worth knowing about…
Yahoo! Inc. has been granted the Indian Trademark Office’s first ever sound mark registration.
INTA’s Indian representative, Simran Daryanani, has supported the move, saying: “We are extremely excited to learn that the Indian Trademark Office has recognized an audible iteration of intellectual property and granted it protected status as a sound mark.” He went on to comment:: “India has a thriving economy, and its resourceful and hardworking people are developing new products and services everyday, and we hope that this is only the first in a long list of new protections for Indian brand owners.”
In a statement, INTA acknowledged the commitment and leadership in intellectual property protection of the Indian Trademark Office, and said that the decision indicated that sound marks are now being considered as meaningful as word marks.
Source: WIPR
Red Hat Inc. and Novell Inc. are being sued by IP Innovation LLC. and Technology Licensing Corp. for patent infringement. The court filing claims that Novell and Red Hat infringed on the plaintiff’s patent for User Interface with Multiple Workspaces for Sharing Display System Objects as well as two other similar patents. This is the first patent infringement lawsuit involving Linux.
According to the lawsuit filed with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Novell and Red Hat are accused of infringing on the patents by selling the Red Hat Linux system, the Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, and the Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. IP Innovation LLC. and Technology Licensing Corp. further further contend that the defendants “deliberately and willfully” infringed on the patents, stating that the defendants were previously notified of the infringement.
IP Innovation LLC. and Technology Licensing Corp. are seeking an injunction from the District Court plus damages including other relief that the court might find proper. Novell withheld comment until their attorneys could further review the court filing.
Red Hat Inc and Novell Inc are accused of violating three patents.
Mumbai, May 18 The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has received a United States patent on an innovative process to make sevelamer, a generic polymer that treats toxic excess of phosphate in the body caused by chronic renal failure.
The patent is a culmination of work done by CSIR’s constituent lab in Pune, the National Chemical Laboratory, on a mandate initially given by Mumbai-based drug company USV Ltd.
USV had acquired the patent rights from CSIR last year, following which it further undertook the prosecution of the application.
Dr Kulkarni’s team developed the alternative process that received the patent.
As per the agreement, USV had the first right to license the know-how and acquire the patent rights, and USV exercised this option.
USV had approached NCL in mid-2003 to develop an innovative process to manufacture the polymer. NCL developed the process and CSIR filed the patent application in India, and the US.
NCL’s scientists developed a cost-effective process to manufacture sevelamer, the phosphate-absorbing polymer. The process NCL reduces the manufacturing time and the process chemicals requirements and is easy to scale up. USV has made a one time payment, and no further milestone payments are involved, he said, citing confidentiality for not giving details.
This development is significant as a technologically novel process received a US patent and has been found commercially attractive by a pharma company.
The recent patent success comes against the backdrop of the Centre’s efforts to get more public-funded institutions to file patents and work with the industry to commercialise research efforts.
With 128 patents in 2006-2007, the CSIR accounts for about 47 per cent of the total US patents granted to Indians, excluding non-resident Indians and foreign assignees, said Mr R.K. Gupta, Head of CSIR’s IP Management Division.
Final patent
The final patent on the CSIR-developed innovative polymer will be issued by the US Patent Office in approximately four months, said Pharmaceutical Patent Attorneys, LLC, the New Jersey-based firm who prosecuted the patent for its Indian client.
Satyam faces $1 b damages
Satyam Computer Services, India’s fourth-largest software exporter, could be staring at penalties in excess of $1 billion if it loses a case to one of its former customers, Upaid Systems, in the US federal court in Texas.
On Wednesday, the Court of Appeal rejected a Satyam request that the case be heard in the UK, asking it to pay up the legal charges, too.
Satyam and Upaid, a UK-based online and mobile payments service company, are locked in a legal battle in the UK and the US on what the latter calls “forgery, breach of contract.”
Simon Joyce, chief executive, Upaid, told DNA from London : “The sum involved is large and would be determined ultimately by the jury. However, there are a number of documents in the public domain, which make it clear that the damages could be over $1 billion.”
Satyam closed FY08 with revenues of Rs 8,473 crore, or little in excess of $2 billion. Its reserves and surplus stands at about Rs 7,100 crore or about $1.8 billion.
The case is not an intellectual property dispute or something pertaining to the patentability of a product or ownership of patent. It is about agreements on the transfer of intellectual property.
