boolyball - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Sounds fair to me (Score 1) 502

by boolyball on Monday June 04, 2007 @12:30AM (#19377405) Attached to: Russia Claims IP Rights In Manufacture of AK-47

With the Berne Convention, copyright is effectively worldwide. Patents, however, are specific to a single country. If you want patent coverage for multiple countries, you need to file in each of them. (It's actually a little more complicated than this, see here for an overview). The upshot is that the CIA, as a US organization, doesn't need to worry about Russian patents, unless they are manufacturing or exporting to Russia. I think parent is a troll.

Submission + - Rollable E Ink Display Becomes Real Product

Submitted by on Sunday February 18, 2007 @05:58AM

An anonymous reader writes: Two years ago Philips unveiled a prototype of a functional electronic-document reader, called the Readius, which could unroll its display to a scale larger than the device itself. Unfortunately, that was only a prototype. According to Cnet, however, Polymer Vision, which spun out from Philips in 2006, has redesigned the Readius and turned it into a real product that it is going to be available by the end of this year. There are some notable differences between this Readius and the prototype version, in particular, the ability to display 16 shades of grey instead of just 4 and the connectivity options. What doesn't make sense though, is given the energy efficiency and easy-to-read high contrast functionality of E Ink, why other than Motorola with its Motofone, has no other cell phone manufacturer incorporated E Ink technology into its handsets?

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