Comment "Patent Fairies" sounds better (Score 1) 113
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"Fair Trolls" To Fight Patents With Patents 113
FlorianMueller writes "Can a patent troll ever be fair? Yes. The primary concern over the upcoming Defensive Patent License — a GPL-like non-aggression pact for patents — is that it might be too defensive to have the desired impact. But actually the DPL could grow very big if one or more 'Fair Trolls' are brought to life and enforce patents against companies that don't support the DPL. The 'Fair Trolls' would commit to the DPL's terms, so they would have to leave other DPL backers alone. In exchange for this, the community would gladly feed them with patentable ideas (financial rewards for contributors included). Over time, staying outside the DPL alliance would become a costly choice for companies whose products might infringe patents. The bigger the DPL pool gets, the more valuable it becomes to its members. The more aggressive the Fair Trolls are, the better for the cause."
Google Wins European Trademark Victory 39
adeelarshad82 writes "A European court has ruled in Google's favor, saying that allowing advertising customers to use the names of other companies as search keywords does not represent a trademark violation. The court also went on to say that Google's AdWords program is protected by a European law governing Internet hosting services. Google's main line of defense was claiming that companies that want to extend trademark law to keywords are really interested in 'controlling and restricting the amount of information that users may see in response to their searches.' The decision is the first in a series of decisions from the court about how trademark rights can be used to restrict information available to users. Google is currently battling several trademark keyword cases in the US, including a case against Rosetta Stone, Inc."
Submission + - high-speed video free with high-def photography (upi.com)
bugzappy writes: "University of Oxford scientists say they've developed a technology that's capable of capturing a high-resolution still image alongside very high-speed video. (...)
they combined off-the-shelf technologies found in standard cameras and digital movie projectors"
"What's new about this is that the picture and video are captured at the same time on the same sensor" said Bub. "This is done by allowing the camera's pixels to act as if they were part of tens, or even hundreds, of individual cameras taking pictures in rapid succession during a single normal exposure. The trick is that the pattern of pixel exposures keeps the high resolution content of the overall image, which can then be used as-is, to form a regular high-res picture, or be decoded into a high-speed movie."
The research is detailed in the journal Nature Methods. http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nmeth.1429.html
Also in:
http://www.isis-innovation.com/news/news/camerasofthefuture.html
http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/media/releases/2010/100214-cameras-of-the-future.aspx
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7234552/Camera-invention-could-make-conventional-photography-obsolete.html
http://www.scientistlive.com/European-Science-News/imaging_microscopy/Revolutionary_photographic_technique/24075/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100214143129.htm
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/179160.php
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/41952.php
http://azooptics.com/Details.asp?newsID=7317
http://www.techeye.net/science/heart-scientists-invent-high-res-photographic-technique
http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/photography/275782/new-camera-sensor-could-make-all-current-devices-obsolete
http://www.sidewaysnews.com/science-technology/camera-future-invented
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1823048/heart_researchers_create_revolutionary_photographic_technique/
they combined off-the-shelf technologies found in standard cameras and digital movie projectors"
"What's new about this is that the picture and video are captured at the same time on the same sensor" said Bub. "This is done by allowing the camera's pixels to act as if they were part of tens, or even hundreds, of individual cameras taking pictures in rapid succession during a single normal exposure. The trick is that the pattern of pixel exposures keeps the high resolution content of the overall image, which can then be used as-is, to form a regular high-res picture, or be decoded into a high-speed movie."
The research is detailed in the journal Nature Methods. http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nmeth.1429.html
Also in:
http://www.isis-innovation.com/news/news/camerasofthefuture.html
http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/media/releases/2010/100214-cameras-of-the-future.aspx
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7234552/Camera-invention-could-make-conventional-photography-obsolete.html
http://www.scientistlive.com/European-Science-News/imaging_microscopy/Revolutionary_photographic_technique/24075/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100214143129.htm
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/179160.php
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/41952.php
http://azooptics.com/Details.asp?newsID=7317
http://www.techeye.net/science/heart-scientists-invent-high-res-photographic-technique
http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/photography/275782/new-camera-sensor-could-make-all-current-devices-obsolete
http://www.sidewaysnews.com/science-technology/camera-future-invented
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1823048/heart_researchers_create_revolutionary_photographic_technique/
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