Last October, Popular Mechanics reported that non-practicing entities (NPEs) may have “bled companies for half a trillion dollars” between 1990 and 2010. Sometimes called “patent trolls” by their detractors, NPEs are generally defined as companies that obtain most of Read the Rest…
Heralded as a “revolutionary material” with “outstanding physical properties,” graphene emerged at the forefront of materials science in 2004, when researchers at the University of Manchester used Scotch tape to peel this single layer of interconnected carbon atoms from a Read the Rest…
According to a 2011 Allstate survey, most Americans believe themselves to be better drivers than “those other idiots on the road.” The self-reported driving habits of respondents from this same survey—most of whom admitted to unsafe driving practices such as Read the Rest…
During an intriguing, late-night discussion with Daniel Wilcox, computer guru extraordinaire, IP Checkups’ Director of Research, Analytics & Business Development, Kathryn Paisner, started thinking about the patentability of baked goods–namely, cookies. Given the broad claims that are often granted Read the Rest…
On March 7th, Science magazine reported that curbing methane and black carbon (soot) emissions might provide a “quick fix” to some of the problems currently associated with global warming. Although the authors caution that simply reducing methane and soot emissions would Read the Rest…
“Professional discourses…provide enough of a rhetorical challenge to require our best efforts at understanding them.” – Charles Bazerman For professionals in technology-intensive industries, contending with technical language is a familiar ordeal. Resembling the Five Stages of Grief, the process is Read the Rest…