The land rush for mobile patents is so feverish that about one-quarter of all patents issued in the U.S. this year will be mobile-related, according to a study released on Wednesday. "It just shows, given the number of filings, how ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
LED packaging house Unity Opto shipped one million LED light bulbs to Europe- and US-based distribution channels in the first quarter and has obtained orders for one million units. The firm predicts total shipments of LED light bulbs in ...
Tags: LED light bulbs, LED light, LED backlight
PacWest Equities Inc has acquired DayStar Technologies Inc's line of CIG Solar Technology, in a deal analysts have valued in excess of $55m. PacWest specializes in working with under-performing organisations and bringing together the ...
Tags: DayStar CIGS, Electrical, Electronics
Google Glass has been one of the most interesting pieces of technology that we have been able to see this year. It is a unique peace of hardware which is set to start a new market segment of its own. But even before the market segment ...
Tags: Smart Glass, glass market, glass
Gozaik , a free social web application for recent graduates and young professional job seekers that allows users to produce multimedia, mosaic-style resumes for Twitter, launches in Beta today. The platform makes all jobs tweeted searchable ...
Tags: Gozaik, Consumer Electronics, web, service, twitter
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS), has filed a new lawsuit in US District Court alleging the infringement of Peregrine ...
Tags: Peregrine, RFMD, Peregrine's HaRP invention
US-based biotechnology company BioTime and its subsidiary LifeMap Sciences have entered into a definitive data mining collaboration agreement. Under the agreement, BioTime will use LifeMap's computer-based tools to extract information ...
Tags: biotechnology company, PureStem progenitor cell, biotechnology
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has gotten involved in a patent infringement with Boston University in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Boston University alleges that Samsung “regularly and deliberately” ...
Tags: LED devices, LED, Samsung
A few of these commercial pre-shrunk nano-capillaries have had their end diameter reduced to a few nanometers, from an original 200 nm, thanks to an electron microscope at EPFL's Center for MicroNanotechnology. Credit: Alain Herzog / EPFL. ...
Tags: glass, glass industry, glass market
Ericsson has sued Indian mobile handset vendor Micromax in an Indian court, alleging infringement of eight of its patents without payment. The dispute appears to be primarily over the royalty payments to be paid by Micromax to Ericsson ...
Volunteers sponsored by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, were in Washington, D.C., last week to thank Congressional representatives for recent support for photonics R&D and to urge future support for in several key ...
Tags: photonics, Photonics Society, Electrical
Severstal announced Monday that the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied ArcelorMittal's request for a rehearing in the matter relating to its aluminum coated steel sheet for hot stamping. The Court of Appeals let stand the ...
Tags: Steel, steel sheet, coated steel sheet
Magnolia Solar Corp of Woburn, MA and Albany, NY, USA says that its subsidiary Magnolia Solar Inc has demonstrated a flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) solar cell with an energy conversion efficiency of 13%, rivaling the ...
Tags: solar cell, Solar Corp, Solar
US-based surgical and therapeutic solutions provider Vycor Medical has obtained Hong Kong patent for its VBAS minimally invasive brain access system. VBAS, a suite of clear cylindrical disposable devices, is designed to provide ...
Tags: surgical, therapeutic, Vycor
The European Commission has today presented a package of initiatives to make trademark registration systems all over the European Union cheaper, quicker, more reliable and predictable. The proposed reform would improve conditions for ...