Microsoft adds 60,000 patents to the Open Invention Network

Microsoft announced today that it’s joined open-source patent group Open Invention Network in an effort to help shield Linux and other open-source software from patent-related suits. As part of …
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Almanac: The invention of carbon paper

And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac, October 7, 1806, 212 years ago today … a date for an achievement that was anything but singular. For that was the day carbon paper was patented by the …
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Part-Organic Invention Can Be Used in Bendable Mobile Phones

Engineers at ANU have invented a semiconductor with organic and inorganic materials that can convert electricity into light very efficiently, and it is thin and flexible enough to help make devices su…
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Apple Files a Major Rewrite of their Invention Related to Indoor Maps to Focus on All-Things Related to Malls

Back in 2014 Patently Apple posted a patent application report titled “Apple Invents Seamless Outdoor to Indoor Map Transitioning.” All of the patent figures related to indoor parking as a focus of th…
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Eatontown NJ Mom-Invention Saves Lives

This post was contributed by a community member. Being outdoors and enjoying fresh ocean breezes is something that fellow New Jersey residents still do despite the official end to summer.
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