‘American Experience’ tonight shows how Thomas Edison reinvented invention

“People feel like they’re part of a God-like force that is sweeping up a backward world and turning it into an immensely sophisticated place.” Thomas Edison’s genius was so much a part of the fabric of American life by the late 1870s that when a journalist …
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Three Vringo Patents Invalidated in China for Lack of Invention

SHENZHEN, China–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ZTE Corporation noted that three patents of Vringo Inc. and its subsidiaries were invalidated by the Patent Re-examination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office of the People’s Republic of China because of lack …
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Fishy invention: Anchorage grad gets patent for solution to fish waste problem

As an Alaskan with a predilection for fishing and the outdoors, Alexandra West knew what problem she wanted to solve while a student at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and it had to do with fish. Near her childhood home on the Kenai Peninsula, West had …
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The long and pricey road to invention

To be granted a patent on an invention is perhaps one of the top achievements for any inventor or researcher, at least on a financial level. The patent holder can license his invention to others, receive royalties or even sell it outright. The prospect of …
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From a Fount of Grief, Endless Invention

As America’s oldest modern dance troupe, the Martha Graham Dance Company devotes much effort to maintaining traditions. A project called “Lamentation Variations” was not supposed to be one of them. The opening night of the company’s 2007 New York …
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These Priests’ Invention Could Help Us Drill Into Icy Alien Worlds Someday

Jarl-Joset Station 9,000 feet up on the Greenland Ice Sheet, where Karl Philberth tested his probe – a forerunner of modern cryobots. The stations’ buildings, already being overtaken by snow as shown here, were gradually buried and crushed in the years …
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