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Innovation at Work: Google's Driverless Bombshell

Axel H. Horns
October 10, 2010 20:51

Non-autonomous car driving, XX. century This weekend reports emerged (here, here, and there) that Google, Inc., successfully has tested autonomous driverless vehicles driving around in normal street traffic in secrecy for a year or so, collecting some 140K miles of driving experience. Ok, it was...

On How To Make Use Of A Mobile eBook Reader

Axel H. Horns
July 12, 2010 21:49

Some months ago I had contemplated going deeper into technologies and issues of e-books and mobile e-book readers. Starting point was some kind of discontent with the format of a blog for articles that exceed some threshold of length comfortable to be consumed on a normal desktop or notebook...

EPO / EU: Important Changes Ahead

Axel H. Horns
June 29, 2010 16:56

Tomorrow will be the very last day in Office for Ms Alison Brimelow, President EPO. As Wikipedia knows, Alison Jane Brimelow CBE is a British civil servant and former Chief Executive and Comptroller General of the UK Patent Office, now known as the Intellectual Property Office. She is the fifth and...

Germany: A Case Study On How To Strangulate Innovation

Axel H. Horns
May 14, 2010 17:16

Free WIFI - No longer available in Germany? Well, I think I don't have to tell you here that patents are some sort of exclusive right related to inventions. Only inventions are eligible to be patented. Some of them, to be more precise. But mere inventions, taken by themselves, are quite worthless...

Daniel Closa et al.: "Patent Law for Computer Scientists"

Axel H. Horns
May 09, 2010 19:22

Four patent examiners from the European Patent Office (EPO) have jointly launched a book titled "Patent Law for Computer Scientists - Steps to Protect Computer-Implemented Inventions". The 1st edition of the book, XV, 194 p., Hardcover, ISBN: 978-3-642-05077-0, has recently been published...