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Obit: CorningWare Inventor Revolutionized Cooking

Posted on November 10, 2014 by mjwhitekingston

Dr. S. Donald Stookey, inventor of synthetic ceramic glass, died on November 4 at the age of 99 (New York Times, Nov. 6). Dr. Stookey joined Corning in 1940 as a research scientist and spent the next four decades working … Continue reading →

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USPTO Report on Virtual Patent Marking

Posted on October 16, 2014 by mjwhitekingston

A new report from the USPTO discusses the effectiveness of virtual patent marking. What is virtual patent marking? From the 1920s to 2011, U.S. patent law required patent owners to mark their products with the number or numbers of associated … Continue reading →

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Entrepreneurs on Campus

Posted on October 14, 2014 by mjwhitekingston

The Globe and Mail has an interesting article about Canadian universities providing training and support to student entrepreneurs (Is University the Place to Learn to be an Entrepreneur?, Oct. 10). This reminded me of an earlier article in the New … Continue reading →

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Scientists Receive Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Enhancing the Power of Microscopes

Posted on October 9, 2014 by mjwhitekingston

Three scientists, Eric Betzig of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stefan W. Hell of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Germany, and William E. Moerner of Stanford University, are the recipients of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry … Continue reading →

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Inventors of Blue LEDs Receive Nobel Prize in Physics

Posted on October 7, 2014 by mjwhitekingston

Isamu Akasaki of Meijo University and Nagoya University, Hiroshi Amano or Nagoya University and Shuji Nakamura of the University of California, Santa Barbara are the recipients of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the blue light-emitting diode (LED) … Continue reading →

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Korean Patent Office Adopts Cooperative Patent Classification System

Posted on September 26, 2014 by mjwhitekingston

The USPTO and KIPO announced today that starting in January 2015 the KIPO will classify its patent applications and utility models under the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) system. Korea ranks fourth after China, the U.S. and Japan in the number … Continue reading →

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USPTO Introduces New Kind Codes: F, J, K, O

Posted on September 8, 2014 by mjwhitekingston

Over the last couple of years the USPTO has introduced several new kind codes on account of changes arising from the America Invents Act of 2011. They are F, Supplemental examination certificate J, Post grant review certificate K, Inter partes … Continue reading →

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Obit: Amar G. Bose (1929-2013), Bose

Posted on July 23, 2013 by mjwhitekingston

Amar G. Bose, inventor of the audio system that bears his name, passed away on July 12 at the age of 84. In addition to being a successful inventor and entrepreneur, Bose taught acoustics and electrical engineering for 45 years … Continue reading →

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US Patent Statistics for 2012

Posted on January 28, 2013 by mjwhitekingston

The USPTO issued 276,820 patents and published 331,583 applications in calendar year 2012, 7 percent more than in 2011 and an all-time high of 608,403 patent documents.Table 1 shows the number of documents by type. No milestones were reached in … Continue reading →

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2012 Global Innovation Index

Posted on July 3, 2012 by mjwhitekingston

The 2012 Global Innovation Index, co-published by INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), is now available.

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