Japanese company to pay ex-employee $8.1 million for invention. japanese company to pay ex....

YouTube honored with "best invention" accolade. youtube invention of the year. Time Magazine has publsihed ts annual list of the best inventions of the year. Topping the list is video sharing site YouTube, eclipsing medical, military, and gadget innovations as the magazine's choice for the top ranked invention.. Topping the list is video sharing site YouTube, eclipsing medical, military, and gadget innovations as the magazine’s choice for the top ranked invention. YouTube joins the Itunes music store, a cloned dog, and a privately financed space jet on the list of Time Magazine’s invention of the year winners....

Finally, an invention that rights some of nature’s most heinous wrongs, the tear-free onion. These days there’s no shortage of pointless inventions....

An inventor named David Millrod has invented and received U.S. Mr. Millrod invented this device after missing many telephone calls by a few seconds. What Millrod invented instead was a system that recognizes voice cadence and tone. Millrod earlier invented an enabled remote control to answer the telephone, but since this device could be easily misplaced, he decided the invention was flawed. Another invention was a speakerphone that answers incoming phone calls when the device recognizes a sequence of handclaps....

However, the Commission and Council felt that these went beyond what was required to set the right balance between rewarding inventors for their efforts and allowing competitors to build on these inventions, and could ultimately harm EU competitiveness." The original Commission directive proposal from 2002 defined "patent" as follows : "A patent protects an invention as delimited by the patent claims which determine the extent of the protection conferred. Thus, the holder of a patent for a computer-implemented invention has the right to prevent third parties from using any software which implements his invention (as defined by the patent claims)." Since that time, American patent law has changed greatly, enabling patents of both formulas (under certain qualifications) and business processes, which were formerly considered mere discoveries and not inventions. Current law is based on a 1999 ruling enabling the patenting of algorithms, under the argument that they can restrict software to performing a single purpose, and that this purpose can be considered both novel and an invention....

Mullin calls his invention "Gamer Grub" and maintains that it is “formulated to boost your brain and speed reaction times.". This is not his first invention. “I work in product development,” Mullin told us when we contacted him this morning. “I’ve invented and licensed several toy products, and I invented a pet toy called the Bark-N-Bat....