Federal Circuit Appeals Court Limits Business-Method Patents (Friday 31st of October 2008 11:15:02 AM)
Zordak writes "The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has just issued its
much-anticipated opinion in In Re Bilski [PDF]. This was a re-visit of the State Street issue
of what constitutes patentable subject matter (including whether macos and craft ...
(more)Alternative vaccine strategy shows promise in prostate cancer patients (Monday 18th of August 2008 01:48:00 AM)
New inquest indicates that giving profession a constant low dose of an immune system booster, a
method known as metronomic dosing, as part of a medical prostate cancer vaccine artifice is
safe and produces similar immune responses and fewer side effects ...
(more)Laparoscopic gastric bypass provides better results (Tuesday 15th of July 2008 07:15:31 PM)
Histrionics gastric bypass
surgery to reduce the weight of morbidly obese clients using a
laparoscopic method, rather than the sanctioned
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(more)Easy method of finding lcd in big fractions? (Tuesday 08th of July 2008 07:04:56 AM)
i heard you can subtract the denominator from the numerator to find the lcd of a big fraction.
sometimes it works. so what's an easy method to find the lcd without going through every
multiple.
ex: 28/55It does not always work..............as the ...
(more)IBM Water-Cools 3D Multi-Core Chip Stacks (Friday 06th of June 2008 06:30:01 PM)
An unsigned reader writes "Water cooling will enable multi-core processors to be stacked into
3D cubes, as it should be to IBM's Zurich probing Laboratory which is demonstrating
three-dimensional chip stacks. By stacking memory chips between processor ...
(more)Researchers Simplify Quantum Cryptography (Tuesday 03rd of June 2008 06:10:53 PM)
Stony Stevenson writes "Quantum cryptography, the most secure method of radio data, has taken a
step closer to predominant viability with a routine that simplifies the distribution of keys.
Researchers at NIST claim that the new 'quantum key distribution' ...
(more)UK High Court Allows Software Patent Claims (Sunday 27th of January 2008 07:30:02 AM)
An anonymous reader tips us to a note up on the IPKat blog, written by one of the four
law-professor types behind that venture. The British High Court has ruled on appeal that the UK
Patent Office must not reject system executive patent applications out ...
(more)IBM Seeks US Patents For Offshoring US Jobs (Sunday 30th of September 2007 03:00:03 AM)
Theodp writes "IBM and other corporations are seeking patents for inventions glad rags the
offshoring of US jobs. The USPTO is because IBM's patent application for Outsourcing of
Services, a 'method for identifying human-resource work content to outsource ...
(more)Entering Passwords Through Eye Movement (Saturday 01st of September 2007 08:54:18 PM)
Stu Dennison writes "Ars Technica has a post up on a new service called EyePassword.
EyePassword is a system that attempts to mitigate the issues of shoulder-surfing via a novel
approach to user input: no hands required. With EyePassword, a user enters ...
(more)New Method To Detect and Prove GPL Violations (Sunday 26th of August 2007 04:09:34 PM)
Qwerty writes "A paper to be presented at the upcoming academic conference Automated Software
Engineering describes a new method to detect code theft and could be used to detect GPL
violations in particular. While the co-called birthmarking method is ...
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