With groundbreaking, patent-pending video compression technology, OnLive harnesses cloud computing to provide the power and intelligence needed to instantly deliver the latest, premium game titles directly via a sleek, inexpensive MicroConsole TV adapter, or on PCs and Macs via a web browser.
Alagappan, however, won't be patenting his groundbreaking water cleaning technology, but sharing it with the world.
But it's too late to act like the technology in those patents is groundbreaking.
Manfred's impact is, by now, part of an exceptional personal record: groundbreaking papers and books, patented industrial devices and systems, and an influential family of academic off-springs.
A Japanese engineer out to gain more respect--and cash--for Japanese inventors suffered a setback 19 September when the Tokyo District Court issued a preliminary ruling against his attempt to reclaim patent rights to a groundbreaking discovery from a former employer.
And, once again selectively, he mentions that Interval Research, one of the many companies he founded, "developed several potentially groundbreaking ideas and registered about 300 patents (some of which may turn out to be quite valuable)." He does not mention that he sued Apple, Google, Facebook, Netflix and eBay, among others, for patent infringement last year.
If you think patents protect plucky innovators and their groundbreaking inventions, you haven't been paying attention.
"This new complication is groundbreaking in the use of new materials, two new patents for the power reserve indicator and its four sprung balances".
"To protect our inventions, we have patented many of the new technologies in these groundbreaking and category-defining products.
The justices conceded that Myriad had "found an important and useful gene, but groundbreaking, innovative, or even brilliant discovery does not by itself satisfy" the patent law's requirements for "new and useful… composition of matter".
A mindless, one-size-fits-all incentive system, patents offer no special reward to scientists who tackle truly groundbreaking research while lavishing huge profits on easy-to-discover me-too drugs such as AstraZenecas Nexium.
