Apple Offers ETSI Royalty-Free Licenses For Nano-SIM Patents – WSJ.com:
So, it would appear, as part of the patent wars in the wireless and MP3 market, Apple is going to try to move to a standard that lowers the litigation prospects.
Author: BizMan
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Intellectual Property @ IBM
This IBM Blog article talks about US Innovation: alive and well.IBM blasts it outta the park again in 2011 with the most patents issued by the USPTO. These are organized by the owner of the patents, the “assignee”. See the top 50 list at IFIClaims.IBM had 6,180 patents issued in the US, far more than the next inventor company.The electronics companies from Japan and Korea were strong in the top 15.Here are the top US companies. Note that Microsoft is in 6th place with 2,311 patents issued. Quite a change for a company that once relied mostly on copyright for it IP protection. GE at #11 with 1,448 patents. HP dropped to 14 as the company struggles.The big automakers were generally in the middle of the pack with GM #18 with 1,095 patents. Apple at 39 with 676 patents (but then, not all patents are created equal). DuPont was #50 with 523 patents.RankGrantsCompany NameCountry16180International Business Machines CorpUnited States62311Microsoft CorpUnited States111448General Electric CoUnited States141308Hewlett-Packard Development Co L PUnited States161244Intel CorpUnited States171164Broadcom CorpUnited States181095GM Global Technology Operations LLCUnited States22980Cisco Technology IncUnited States24947Micron Technology IncUnited States26923Qualcomm IncUnited States28880Xerox CorpUnited States32794Texas Instruments IncUnited States33780Honeywell International IncUnited States35721AT&T Intellectual Property I L PUnited States37695Boeing Co TheUnited States39676Apple IncUnited States50523Du Pont de Nemours, E I & CoUnited States -
Happy Digital Learning Day
This day is sponsored by the National Writing Project…
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3729Here’s a pretty cool article on the idea with some great links at the bottom.
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/happy-digital-learning-dayvia ST… Thanks.
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Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research | Video on TED.com
Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research | Video on TED.com:
This is an interesting approach to scientific research and invention… Related to cancer genes.They are applying Open-source concepts with crowd sourcing to get the research out quickly in a collaborative environment.Not that the original research was gov and/or foundation funded.