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U.S. losing Right Stuff in science, engineering
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| According to a 2010 National Science Board report, the state
| of science and engineering in the U.S. is still good; however, the
| countryâs lead in the number of researchers is being challenged by China.
| Other science and engineering indicators in the U.S. are also being
| challenged by Asian countries.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/30532/1066/
IBM Fluffs Patent Portfolio with Services Tech
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| For what seems like a zillion years
| running--alright, for the past 17 years
| now--IBM has come out as the top dog in
| the annual rankings of patents granted by
| the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. A
| few years back, the USPTO stopped giving
| out data about patent counts, but market
| researcher IFI Patent Intelligence takes
| the raw patent data and dices and slices
| it like the patent office used to.
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http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh011810-story06.html
IBM Keeps Atop U.S. Patent List
http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/29279/IBM+Keeps+Atop+U.S.+Patent+List
Processor Whispers - About Beauty and Creativity
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| Also Microsoft is advancing â even if
| partly with inexpressibly petty software
| patents â and holds the third place with
| 2900 of these overwhelming patents now. If
| you know how to go from one page of a
| document to the next using software â
| voilÃ, thatâs Microsoftâs U.S. patent 7
| 415 666, granted in 2008.
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http://www.h-online.com/newsticker/news/item/Processor-Whispers-About-Beauty-and-Creativity-906304.html
Recent:
USPTO Awards LOL Patent To IBM
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| theodp writes "Among the last batch of
| patents granted in 2009 was one for IBM's
| Resolution of Abbreviated Text in an
| Electronic Communications System. The
| invention of four IBMers addresses the
| hitherto unsolvable problem of translating
| abbreviations to their full meaning â e.g.,
| 'IMHO' means 'In My Humble Opinion' â and
| vice versa. From the patent: 'One
| particularly useful application of the
| invention is to interpret the meaning of
| shorthand terms ... For example, one
| database may define the shorthand term "LOL"
| to mean "laughing out loud."' USPTO records
| indicate the patent filing was made more
| than a year after Big Blue called on the
| industry to stop what it called 'bad
| behavior' by companies who seek patents for
| unoriginal work. Yet another example of what
| USPTO Chief David Kappos called IBM's
| apparent schizophrenia on patent policy back
| when he managed Big Blue's IP portfolio."
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http://idle.slashdot.org/story/09/12/30/166220/USPTO-Awards-LOL-Patent-To-IBM
IBM Patents Managing Your Patents
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| theodp writes "Before leaving a long IBM career
| last summer to head the USPTO, David Kappos
| managed Big Blue's patent and trademark
| portfolios. Last Tuesday, the USPTO awarded
| U.S. Patent No. 7,630,915 to IBM for its
| inventive method of Managing an Intellectual
| Property Portfolio."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091216/1806457391.shtml
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