93% of Soybeans, 80% of Corn Grown from Genetically-Modified Monsanto Seeds
Peter Whoriskey reports in the Washington Post: For plants designed in a lab a little more than a decade ago, they’ve come a long way: Today, the vast majority of the nation’s... The post 93% of...
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Who Owns You? 20% of the Genes in Your Body are Patented (Video)
Drew Halley writes on Singularity Hub: Here’s a disconcerting thought: for the past thirty years, genes have been patentable. And we’re not just talking genetically modified corn — your genes, pretty...
View Article10 Physical Gestures That Have Been Patented
Interesting article from Annalee Newitz on io9.com: If you’re making a flicking gesture with a pen near your computer, watch out. Microsoft may own the rights to the gesture you’re making. And... The...
View ArticleSoon Advertisements Will Involve Forced Interaction
In the near future, television commercials will make you do things, such as throwing a pickle onto an imaginary hamburger, if you want to get back to your show. Via Electronista: Sony... The post Soon...
View ArticleApple Moving Forward On Location-Based Disabling Of iPhone Cameras
Using your mobile device to take pictures of or film police, or a protest, or corporate property (or Mitt Romney speaking in a private meeting to his campaign donors) may become a... The post Apple...
View ArticleHandcuffs Of The Future Administer Shocks And Drugs To The Detained
CNET reports on handcuffs that practically do the police’s work for them: A patent for next-generation handcuffs offers a future in which the detained can be zapped directly from their restraints,...
View ArticleIs Sowing Artificial Scarcity The Future Of Business?
Via the The New Inquiry, Peter Frase on where we’re headed: Where we see scarcity, much of it appears to be imposed by choice. In particular, the increasing weight of intellectual property... The post...
View ArticleCan We Patent Life?
An interesting question posed by Michael Specter in The New Yorker‘s new Science & Tech section: On April 12, 1955, Jonas Salk, who had recently invented the polio vaccine, appeared on the... The...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rules Against Patenting Of Human Genes
Great to know that I’m not infringing on anyone’s copyrights with my existence. The Los Angeles Times reports: In a unanimous ruling Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that human genes are a... The post...
View ArticleMotorola Patents Neck Tattoo That Acts As Device-Connected Microphone
Ever wish that everything you ever said could be recorded? Me neither. Discovery notes: According to a patent application filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, Motorola has a technology...
View ArticleTargeted Advertisements Will Be Appearing In Hospital Rooms
Healthcare costs in the United States are spinning out of control, but never fear, there are new sources of revenue in the pipeline. Via Free Patents Online, plans for a System for... The post Targeted...
View ArticleTrans-Pacific Partnership Reveals Deadly Cost of American Patents
Another take on the evils of TPP from Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism: While US news stories occasionally mention the breathtaking cost of some medications, they almost always skirt the issue of... The...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Most Absurd Patents in the US
Abby Martin goes over the top 5 most ridiculous patents in the US, citing everything from Amazon’s patent of white background photography to Apple’s patent of the shape of a rectangle all... The post...
View ArticleIndia’s Generic Hepatitis C Treatment To Cost 1,000 Times Less Than In U.S.
Is there any excuse for pricing a sorely-needed drug that can cure a killer virus 1,000 times more in the U.S. than it will cost in India? From Techdirt‘s rather-exorbitant dept.: As Techdirt explained...
View ArticlePatents for technology to read people’s minds hugely increasing
Via The Independent: Companies are taking out a huge amount of patents related to reading brainwaves, according to analysis, with a range of different applications. Fewer than 400 neuro-technology...
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