Category: Intellectual property
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Fund to Back Independent, Early Stage Science Companies
Entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel has started Breakout Labs, a funding source to help independent scientists and early-stage companies develop their most radical ideas. Thiel announced Breakout Labs last night at a meeting of Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students in California. Thiel aims to provide financing for visionaries whose ideas are too ahead of…
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Private-Public Consortium to Share IP on Tropical Diseases
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has formed a partnership with pharmaceutical companies and BIO Ventures for Global Health (BVGH) to share intellectual property and expertise to develop treatments for neglected tropical diseases, malaria, and tuberculosis. The partnership includes international and national research and public health agencies, as well as research universities and non-government organizations.…
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Roche to License University DNA Sequencing Technology
The Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche has agreed to license DNA sequencing technology developed at Arizona State and Columbia universities to help build a new type of DNA sequencing system. One goal of the system will be to quickly decode a person’s complete genome for less than $1,000. The licensed technologies are based on research conducted…
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Graphene Electronic Properties Configured for Computer Chips
A team of physicists from the U.K., Russia, and Japan has proposed a method for using the light weight and conductivity of graphene in computer chips. The researchers, including Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov at University of Manchester in the U.K. who won the Nobel Prize in 2010 for their discovery of graphene, published their…
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SBIR Grant Awarded to Rutgers Spin-Off for Biopsy Imaging
National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a spin-off company from Rutgers University in New Jersey a small-business grant to develop a quick and economical analysis of tissue from breast cancer biopsies. The grant of $207,000 to Ibris Inc. of Piscataway, New Jersey, was made through through NIH’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Ibris…
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U.S. Patent Awarded for Flexible Spinal Fusion Device
FBC Device ApS, a medical device company in Aarhus, Denmark, has received a U.S. patent for its two-piece disc implants that help spinal surgery patients achieve a more natural alignment. Patent 8,007,536 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office was officially awarded on 30 August. The invention covers the company’s technology for total disc replacement,…
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Small Business Grant Awarded for Bone Marrow Protection Drug
A company in Chapel Hill, North Carolina has received a $3 million grant from NIH to commercialize a therapy to protect bone marrow in cancer patients against damage from chemo and radiation therapy. G-Zero Therapeutics received the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The award to…
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Commercial Production Begins for New Lithium Process
Simbol Materials, a three year-old company in Pleasanton, California, says it will begin today commercial production of a pure form of lithium carbonate for electric vehicle batteries and other energy storage devices. The company’s process, developed out of research conducted at and licensed from Lawrence Livermore National Lab, also produces manganese and zinc. The production…
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Copper Nanofilm Can Replace Rare Earth in Digital Displays
Research chemists at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina have developed a film made of copper nanowires that could replace expensive rare earths now used in digital displays. The discovery by Duke chemistry professor Ben Wiley and grad student Aaron Rathmell appears online in the journal Advanced Materials (paid subscription required). Wiley has also started…
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Technology Developed for Aerial Vegetation Measurements
A scientist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a technical consultant from industry have developed and patented a technology that converts digital cameras to color infrared cameras for aerial photography. Raymond Hunt, with USDA’s Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland and David Linden, chief scientist at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in McLean, Virginia…