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Tag: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Digital Science boosts support for research institutions with upgrade to Dimensions Research Security
Digital Science today announces improved support for research security with an important upgrade to its Dimensions Research Security dashboard app.
‘Fallout’ success: video game nostalgia spans multiple media, explains expert
Mention the name “Fallout” to a dedicated gamer, and you might well see their eyes light up with nostalgia. Amazon Prime’s new “Fallout” TV show racked up high scores with critics and audiences alike. Virginia Tech media expert James Ivory answered questions about the appeal of “Fallout” and what its success could mean for the future of entertainment media.
Cedars-Sinai Behavioral Health App Launches On Apple Vision Pro
Cedars-Sinai clinicians and artificial intelligence experts have developed a new application that takes advantage of the unique capabilities of Apple Vision Pro to support patients’ mental health needs.
FAU, National Academy of Inventors® Offer Students Intellectual Property Certificate
The certificate program was launched this spring for senior engineering students at FAU, and to date, more than 700 have graduated with the certificate. Through this certificate program, students will gain a broad understanding of intellectual property, and is expected to spur innovation and entrepreneurship at FAU.
Meet the New Health-Tech Companies Joining the Cedars-Sinai Accelerator
The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator is welcoming 10 health-tech companies from around the world to its ninth accelerator class. The businesses are building a variety of healthcare solutions—from monitoring devices for sepsis, heart failure and stroke, to virtual reality video games aimed at helping children manage pain and anxiety during medical procedures.
FAU-developed Video Compression Technology Receives Industry Recognition
Video compression technology enables streaming video applications from YouTube to Netflix to transmit high quality video. As video accounts for about 80 percent of all Internet traffic, better video compression is a prominent issue worldwide. Technology developed by FAU researchers, in partnership with research sponsor OP Solutions, LLC, promises to improve the process of streaming media. FAU and OP Solutions have announced that industry groups within the field have accepted university-developed intellectual property as part of the next generation video codec Versatile Video Coding (VVC).
Health-Tech Startups Join Cedars-Sinai’s Eighth Accelerator Class
The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator is welcoming 10 health-tech startup companies from around the world to its eighth accelerator class. The companies are building a variety of healthcare solutions—from culturally-appropriate digital mental health services to wearable devices that help patients manage chronic asthma.
The Big Ten Academic Alliance joins Direct to Open from the MIT Press
BTAA libraries commit to making knowledge more open and equitable and will enjoy benefits exclusive to participating libraries
Data privacy — are you sure you want a cookie?
Data privacy is an important topic in the digitalised economy. Recent policy changes have aimed to strengthen users’ control over their own data. Yet new research from Copenhagen Business School finds designers of cookie banners can affect users’ privacy choices…
Patently harmful: Fewer female inventors a problem for women’s health
Female inventors hold just a quarter of US biomedical patents
Invention Uses Machine-learned Human Emotions to ‘Drive’ Autonomous Vehicles
FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science Receives U.S. Utility Patent for ‘Adaptive Mood Control in Semi or Fully Autonomous Vehicles’
Charité accepts new responsibilities at the European level
Nursing network coordinated by Charité and other EUHA initiatives in the pipeline
Free event will connect heart, lung, blood and sleep point-of-care inventors with resources
M2D2 program to feature NIH, Johnson & Johnson leaders
China continues its formidable rise as a scientific powerhouse
At the 43rd annual SSP conference, CACTUS, CAST, and China experts discussed new learnings, challenges, and new opportunities in STM journal publishing
Entrepreneurship event celebrates 10th anniversary
Deshpande Symposium marks a decade of assisting, educating entrepreneurs
Free events explore the clinical trials process
M2D2 programs aid biotech, medical-device startups
Decolonising ecology? How to adopt practices that make science more equitable
Knowledge systems outside of those sanctioned by Western universities have often been marginalised or simply not engaged with in many science disciplines, but there are multiple examples where Western scientists have claimed discoveries for knowledge that resident experts already knew…
FSU expert available to discuss intellectual property and COVID-19 vaccines
By: Bill Wellock | Published: May 7, 2021 | 11:55 am | SHARE: President Joe Biden has expressed his support for a World Trade Organization proposal to waive intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines.Florida State University law professor Frederick Abbott, the Edward Ball Eminent Scholar Professor of International Law, is available to comment on international intellectual property rights and global economic issues around the proposal.
New app makes Bitcoin more secure
More than 90% of users don’t know if their mobile wallet is potentially compromised; now, there’s an app for that
The CNRS 2021 Innovation Medal laureates
Antoine Aiello, Nora Dempsey, François Jérôme and Amanda Silva Brun are the four recipients of the CNRS 2021 Innovation Medal. Created 10 years ago, this distinction honours people whose outstanding research has led to significant technological, economic, therapeutic or social…
The MIT Press launches MIT Open Publishing Services
New publishing model provides unique and timely solutions to the production, curation, and preservation of knowledge.
UMass Lowell researchers work toward a greener economy
$1.8m DOE grant will help develop sustainable plastics
The Lens awarded $2M USD to strengthen institutional innovation capabilities
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation support has enabled creation of powerful tools to let public institutions use open data
Cybersecurity researchers build a better ‘canary trap’
A new artificial intelligence system generates fake docs to fool adversaries
The issue of governments in business
Just how involved should governments be in business? And is there a right answer to this question, or a one-size-fits all conclusion?
Canadian firm secures rights to Purdue’s rare-earth element technology
Medallion Resources will develop and commercialize the technology, which uses a ‘greener’ process to purify and separate rare-earth elements from all noncoal-sourced raw materials
COVID R&D response shows what’s possible for future healthcare innovation
University of Bath release
25 leading researchers join EU-funded actions to teach students about trustworthy science
Path2Integrity promotes learning settings and materials for honesty, reliability, respect, and accountability in research
Who’s writing open access articles?
An Academic Analytics Research Center (AARC) study has found greater rates of authorship of open access (OA) research articles among scholars at more prestigious institutions with greater access to resources and job security. “The open access publishing model is growing,…
Can we be manipulated into sharing private info online? Yes, says Ben-Gurion U. study
BEER-SHEVA, Israel, December 22, 2020 – Online users are more likely to reveal private information based on how website forms are structured to elicit data, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have determined. The intriguing study, “Online Disclosure Depends…
New Canada research chairs foster outstanding research at uOttawa
The University of Ottawa has earned a total of 10 Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) covering a broad scope of subjects, from the exploration of disruptive impacts of stress on higher brain functions to the need to preserve Indigenous traditional cultural…
Einstein Award for Promoting Quality in Research
Charité researcher and founder of BIH QUEST Center to head Awards Office
Why untraceable cryptocurrencies are here to stay
According to a new study from Copenhagen Business School, on the role of privacy and decentralization in the cryptocurrency community, developers are creating cryptocurrencies in such a way that regulatory oversight will not be possible, neither will any wait and…
What’s That Growing on Your Face Mask?
Scientist Invents Novel Device to Conveniently Sanitize Contaminated Masks at Home or at Work
Closing the market for fake documents on the open web
Buying a counterfeit driver’s license or passport used to require a secret meeting with some shady characters. More recently, it meant having a connection to the dark web. But today, all you need is an internet connection and a search…
Foreign election interference: A global response
New Rochelle, NY, October 13, 2020 —The increasing threat of foreign interference in elections has driven six nations to take similar approaches to combat this pervasive threat. A review of the details to their responses brings out valuable differences and…
New research explores impact of patent sharing in fight against COVID-19
University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Professor Jorge Contreras was among a group of nine lawyers, scientists and engineers from the United States and United Kingdom who came together in March to create a flexible, open platform for sharing intellectual property in the fight against COVID-19. A new article published in Nature Biotechnology outlines results of those efforts.
Entrepreneurs to pitch new health-care innovations in virtual event
M2D2 to award $200K worth of in-kind services
Pandemic spawns ‘infodemic’ in scientific literature
New policies, technologies could help make sense of flood of information
Paper ballots, risk-limiting audits can help defend elections and democracy, study finds
A multifaceted approach is the best way to address election infrastructure security, say researchers
What is artificial intelligence?
A conversation between an AI engineer and a humanities researcher
Health care leaders to share strategies for bringing innovations to market
Event aims to assist medical, biotech entrepreneurs
S&T Helps Bring U.S. Coast Guard Academy Innovations to Front Lines of COVID-19 Response
S&T Helps Bring U.S. Coast Guard Academy Innovations to Front Lines of COVID-19 Response, including a 3D printed face mask and unique ventilator design.
ORNL launches rapid access licensing program to speed up COVID-19 solutions
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched a program designed to accelerate deployment of innovations that may help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 Rapid Access Licensing Program will allow companies to license these select technologies at no cost for one year.
PNNL waives fee to test-drive portfolio of intellectual property
Special exploratory license agreement designed to spur economic recovery
PNNL waives fee to test-drive portfolio of intellectual property
Special exploratory license agreement designed to spur economic recovery
In anti-piracy work, blocking websites more effective when multiple sites are targeted
An important challenge facing media industries today is whether and how copyright policy should be adapted to the realities of the digital age. The invention and subsequent adoption of filesharing technologies has eroded the strength of copyright law across many…
Blockchain to the rescue of small publishers
Blockchain technology underpins cryptocurrency, and is being used for rights and royalties management for numerous industries. It could help book publishers stay afloat.
As hospitals walk the tightrope of patient data-sharing, one system offers a new balance
Industry wants access to massive data troves, but patients deserve transparency and privacy; approach detailed in NEJM offers a path forward