Here is a cool chart of the estimates for global carbon emissions.
It shows the estimates from various sources and proves an interesting view as to high and low estimates.
So we are probably at about 35B tonnes per year. The increase doesn’t look like it is planing off any time soon though, no matter which way you measure it.
Google has gotten more fast-track patents than any other company – The Washington Post: Google has gotten 875 fast track patents (about $3.5 million dollars extra in patenting fees $4k extra per app), that is 14% of all such rapid track patent processing in the USA. Prioritized examination. The plan from Google’s perspective is to…
No PTA For Divisional Application | PharmaPatents: When does a 20 year patent turn out to be more than a 20 year patent… Patent Term Adjustments. Okay, so under certain situations, an extension can be requested to the 20 years that the US has for patent applications after 1995. The idea is that for such…
Here are Scenarios and sources of the injustice in the Criminal Justice system in the USA. The US has the most people incarcerated of any country in the world… Even though we only have 4.3% of the world’s population, we have more inmates — 2.2 million — than China (1.5m) and India (0.3m), combined (36.4%…
Oil sands are seriously back in play with patented technology. Combine that with blockchain tech, and you have an investment that you simply gotta get into, or not!…Petrotech Energy Inc. is touting both patents and blockchain in a penny, over-the-counter, stock (PQEFF).Well, maybe not investing, but here is a hyped-up “sponsored” Ad that looks slightly like…
By Dr. Elmer HallAuthor of Patent Primer 5 and Perpetual Sustainability Introduction: The GMO Patent Trap Hiding in Plain Sight Monsanto’s “weed-n-seed” strategy may be the most profitable and dangerous GMO patent trap ever deployed in global agriculture. This business model doesn’t just involve selling genetically modified seeds—it binds farmers into an escalating cycle of…
IP intensive US corporations have gained a tangible, potentially very profitable benefit from the tax reform signed into law in December 2017. A new provision reduces taxes on “foreign derived intangible income,” i.e., Intellectual Property (IP) — primarily patents. However, in yet another “all that glitters…,” this new benefit doesn’t arrive without its requirements for anew level of analysis and…
