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German Parliament takes action against software patentss
Last week the German parliament addressed the increasingly severe problem of software patent protection.
SC: naturally-occurring DNA not patentable
This just in: naturally-occuring genes not patentable.
Apple granted "iWallet" patent
iPhone maker moves on mobile payment.
Featured in IPKat
Patexia's Dan Porter recent authored a guest post about accelerated patent prosecution, featured by our feline friends over at IPKat.
Vermont fighting back against "Patent Trolls"
Vermont just passed an interesting law to deal with the patent trolling.
Feed tagged as "lasers":
In over a century since the discovery of X-rays and radioactivity, doctors have worked at harnessing the invisible yet powerful rays for therapeutic purposes, such as ... Read More »
To study matter on increasingly smaller scales, scientists need faster light. The speed of light is constant, of course, but "faster" here refers to the... Read More »
Though it's no shark, having a robot on another planet with a laser attached to its "head" is still pretty cool. The Rover's "ChemCam,"... Read More »
In a decidedly bond-villain esque move, researchers have used a thin sliver of diamond to create one of the most powerful and refined X-ray lasers to date. Described... Read More »
Superman has to be hating himself about now. Researchers and engineers have already mimicked his flight, laser vision, and super strength, now they’re close to... Read More »
Late on the night of July 20th, the laser system of the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA), delivered a petawatt of power in a pulse just 40 femtoseconds long. In ... Read More »
Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers offer a number of advantages in the manufacturing process over their horizontal-cavity brethren. In particular, vertical... Read More »
Traditional surface-emitting lasers necessary for a high-speed optical links on microchips stand between 20 to 30 micrometers tall, dwarfing their silicon... Read More »
The US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California Berkeley have created the world’s smallest three-dimensional... Read More »
Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have... Read More »
Quantum computing based on electron spin -- aka spintronics -- has long promised to replace conventional electronics. The problem has been that electron spin, which... Read More »
Recently, Washington University at St. Louis researchers employed a novel holographic technique to see inside tissue. By recording what happens to scattered light... Read More »
Laser-like X-ray beams can now be generated from a tabletop device. Most current X-ray lasers depend on facilities that are at least the size of football stadiums... Read More »
Molybdenum disulphide is an indirect bandgap semiconductor in bulk, but a direct bandgap semiconductor as a single layer. Single-layer MoS2 could be used in a variety ... Read More »
A study published this week in Science demonstrates the potential of free-electron lasers (FEL) to obtain high-resolution structural insight into macromolecules. An... Read More »
At the 2012 Hannover Messe from April 23 to 27, KIT will present innovations relating to energy, mobility, IT and other topics of relevance to the future. KIT will... Read More »
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a more efficient, less expensive way of cooling electronic devices -- particularly devices that... Read More »
Physicists at JILA have demonstrated a novel 'superradiant' laser design, which has the potential to be 100 to 1,000 times more stable than the best... Read More »
A team of physicists at UC Santa Barbara has seen the light, and it comes in many different colors. By aiming high- and low-frequency laser beams at a semiconductor... Read More »
Laser-based measurements are proving to be a promising method for the assessment of osteoporosis. A research team has developed an ultrasound technique that uses... Read More »
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