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18 hours ago | News
According
to recent data released by Google, the search engine giant has logged
more than 2.5 million requests in the last 11 months to remove links
believed to be violating Microsoft’s copyrights. This exceeded the
number of complaints about material produced by entertainment companies
pushing for tougher online piracy laws.
May 24 | News
The Morgan Crucible Company plc announced the signing of a joint development agreement between its wholly owned subsidiary, MorganAM&T Inc., and Boston-Power Inc. to accelerate development and commercialization of MorganAM&T's advanced anode technologies based on metal-loaded carbon nanoparticles.
May 9 | News
A
federal jury failed to agree on a pivotal issue in Oracle's
copyright-infringement case against Google, blunting the impact of its
finding that Google relied on another company's technology to build its
popular Android software for mobile devices. The impasse reached Monday
in San Francisco hobbles Oracle Corp.'s attempt to extract hundreds of
millions of dollars from Google on grounds that the Internet search
leader pirated parts of Android from Oracle's Java programming system.
May 7 | News
BASF has declared the purchase of the Mazzaferro Group's
polyamide (PA) polymer business based in Brazil. Through this
acquisition,
the position of BASF has been strengthened with respect to polyamide
polymers
and engineering plastics in South America.
May 4 | News
Reinnervate Ltd and Roslin Cellab, two U.K. companies in the fields of 3D cell culture and stem cell biology, announced that they will join forces to develop protocols for the 3D growth of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).
May 3 | News
Four
months ago the U.S. government sought to block publication of two
studies about how scientists created an easily spread form of bird flu.
Now a revised version of one paper is seeing the light of day with the
government's blessing. The second paper, which is more controversial
because it involves what appears to be a more dangerous virus, is
expected to be published later.
May 1 | News
Industrial
biotechnology companies rely heavily on patents to attract investment
to fund R&D. The recent America Invents Act stands to have a
significant impact on technology innovators such as biotech firms, and
two recently published papers from patent law experts help explain the
extent of these shifts.
Apr 26 | News
Shortly
after Tuesday's release of the long-awaited Google Drive service,
technology blogs and Twitter users were picking apart a legal clause
that made it sound as if all the users' content stored in Google Drive
automatically would become the intellectual property of Google Inc. As it
turns out, the worries are probably unfounded.
Apr 25 | News
The
government wants you to install solar panels at your house, and will
even give you a tax break to do it. But your neighbors? Maybe not.
Homeowners associations around the country have banned or severely
restricted the installation of solar panels, and the solar industry has
pushed back to halt the practice.
Apr 20 | News
EOS announced that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Phenix Systems. The lawsuit alleges infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 5,753,274 and 6,042,774 through the manufacture, sale, and use of the PXL, PXM, PXS, and PXS Dental product lines from Phenix in the U.S.
