Archive for October, 2007

Bill Clinton & the Genie

Posted on October 14, 2007. Filed under: Misc |

Bill Clinton was walking along the beach when he stumbled upon a Genie’s lamp. He picked it up and rubbed it and lo-and-behold, a Genie appeared. Bill was amazed and asked if he got three wishes.
The Genie said, “Nope…Due to inflation, constant downswing, low wages in third world countries, and fierce global competition, I can [...]

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how about a laugh ?

Posted on October 14, 2007. Filed under: Misc |

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Once upon a time there lived three men: a doctor, a chemist, and an engineer. For some reason all three offended the king and were sentenced to die on the same day.
The day of the execution arrived, and the doctor was led up to the guillotine.
As he strapped the doctor to the guillotine, the executioner [...]

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Lupin has received Euro 20 million from patent rights

Posted on October 12, 2007. Filed under: India-News, latest news |

Lupin has received Euro 20 million from Laboratoires Servier of France for the sale of additional patent rights to Perindopril.
Dr. Kamal K Sharma, managing director, Lupin said, “This income significantly boosts our performance for the current year. We are very pleased with the transaction and it goes a long way to further demonstrate our IP [...]

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Linux vendors Red Hat Inc. and Novell Inc. are being sued for patent infringement by IP Innovation LLC and Technology Licensing Corp.

Posted on October 12, 2007. Filed under: latest news | Tags: , , , , |

Linux vendors Red Hat Inc. and Novell Inc. are being sued for patent infringement by IP Innovation LLC and Technology Licensing Corp.
The plaintiffs claim they own U.S. Patent No. 5,072,412 for a “User Interface with Multiple Workspaces for Sharing Display System Objects” issued Dec. 10, 1991, as well as two other similar patents. It is [...]

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Words misunderstood….

Posted on October 11, 2007. Filed under: my life |

‘…sometime i wonder…..what not to wonder….’
Late from the dreams , i woke up to see some thing not so fateful..and deleted an entry. Entry which were my own words… words which had no ulterior meaning…meanings which which were conveyed by words was straight…striaght were the words and so was there indication and straight was the [...]

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Google India Launches Text Messaging Service

Posted on October 10, 2007. Filed under: India-News, latest news | Tags: , , , , |

Google India, the Indian subsidiary of the world’s largest search engine, Tuesday launched the beta version of its short messaging service (SMS) for mobile users in [...]

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Mahatma’s Charkha to Generate Electricity

Posted on October 10, 2007. Filed under: India-News, latest news | Tags: , , |

The humble charkha or spinning wheel, a symbol of Mahatma Gandhi’s civil disobedience movement, will also generate electricity besides spinning cotton in a model developed by an innovator.
The wooden Charkha has now been customized into an ‘e-charkha’ by
Hiremath, a Bangalore-based engineer who has been active in the field of non-conventional energy resources, has now customized [...]

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Scientists working to build a life form from scratch have applied to patent the broad method they plan to use to create their “synthetic organism”.

Posted on October 10, 2007. Filed under: latest news |

Dr Craig Venter, the man who led the private sector effort to sequence the human genome, has been working for years to create a man-made organism. But constructing a primitive microbe from a kit of genes is a daunting task.
Dr Venter says, eventually, these life forms could be designed to make biofuels and [...]

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Classic case of me-first-patent fight… WRIGHT BROTHER

Posted on October 10, 2007. Filed under: ' lectures '-- the training module, Misc, patent-misuse | Tags: , |

The Wright Brothers were the two great inventors of the first controlled, heavier-than-air craft. Unfortunately for them, many other people made the same claim, or ignored their achievement.
Background
On 17 December, 1903, the Wrights managed to build a craft capable of heavier-than-air flight and applied for a patent. Over the years it took to grant this [...]

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MTNL to Offer PC for Rs. 4,500

Posted on October 10, 2007. Filed under: Misc | Tags: , , , |

Can’t afford a personal computer? If you happen to be a Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) customer in Mumbai and Delhi, you will soon be able to get a PC for as low as Rs. 4,500. This PC, is being offered by MTNL in partnership with Chennai-based Novatium and comes with an internet connection for [...]

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