It entails public disclosure of the technology surrounding an invention.
Mr. Bascom may indeed have invented and patented the technology, but the costs of invention and patenting of this sort of technology are likely not anywhere near the cost of prosecuting an infringement action or defending a declaratory judgment action.
Yet the invention of technology to capture this evanescent experience has radically changed this essential mode of communication.
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In other words, there are opportunities for ambitious invention in every technology-intensive industry.
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With the rise of tablets, smartphones, social media, apps and personal clouds, we are in the midst of a profound computing shift, perhaps the greatest technology revolution in the enterprise since the invention of the PC.
Intellectual Ventures believes that funding invention is the future for using technology to affect change on a global level around the world.
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Patent No. 6, 000, 000 was awarded on Dec. 7, 1999, to 3Com for Jeff Hawkins and Michael Albanese's invention of "hot synchronization" technology for handhelds.
Stylishly outfitted in a red dress and high heels she could easily have been taken for another young woman with an idea regarding customized haute couture, but hardly like a technology entrepreneur working to develop a potentially groundbreaking invention in wind-generated energy.
It's an invention by a startup called MaxiVision Cinema Technology that combines an enhanced filming process with a robotic, digitally controlled attachment to current film projectors.
That may be about to change, thanks to the biggest breakthrough in the visual display of words and pictures since the invention of television--a new technology that promises a world where information is portable, cheap and stunningly vivid.
Sociologists have described a technology adoption life cycle, which represents the way an invention spreads throughout a community.
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The company is a subsidiary of Intellectual Ventures, an invention firm run by Microsoft's former chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold.
Goldwind, Coda, and the Thermal Power Research Institute are hybrids of Western design and Chinese production, and no nation has yet mastered both the invention and the low-cost manufacturing of clean technology.
This invention promised a way to mass-produce essential information technology that previously could only be painstakingly handmade.
The technology is already beginning to pay off, and despite its recent invention, the word on the street is that a Nobel Prize isn't far off.
For example, railways came into existence because of the invention of the steam engine and automobiles were created because of technology breakthroughs in automobile engines.
He shared a Nobel Prize with John Bardeen and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor and later went on to refine transistor technology, spawning the modern age of semiconductors and of Silicon Valley.
"Through this acquisition, IV was able to acquire a portfolio that is both strategic and relevant in a variety of technology areas, " said Loria Yeadon, executive vice president of the Invention Investment Fund (IIF) at Intellectual Ventures.
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Societies were open to invention precisely because rulers wanted to be on the cutting edge of military technology.
Together with Harper, who runs a technology consulting firm, they came up with a list of invited contributors, asking each to bring an invention--useless or practical--an idea or at least good conversation.
As technology proceeds in a patent-obsessed world, the fruits of innovation flow to the owners of the capital and invention, forming a whole new rentier class.
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