The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today ruled in a precedential decision that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) correctly rejected a patent applicant’s reissue claims as “impermissibly attempting to recapture subject matter that the patentee intentionally surrendered during prosecution.” The opinion, authored by Judge Cunningham, explained that John Bradley…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Kalief Browder) Google Fiber says it plans to expand its fiber-to-the-home Internet service to several new states for the first time since it announced a pause in construction in October 2016. The plans are pending local approvals. The Alphabet division said in a press release today that it is “talking…
Enlarge (credit: LG Display) LG Display has shown off some interesting ideas as it looks to change the way OLED panels work, from positing bizarre form factors to addressing dimmer brightness levels compared to LED alternatives. Now, the panel maker is exploring a new approach to OLED TV audio. Today, LG Display announced its creation of a…
Compared to most isopods, the Bathynomus yucatanensis is huge. Ming-Chih Huang, Journal of Natural History The Chicxulub crater off of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula is mostly associated with the end of the dinosaurs. This six-mile wide impact crater is where the asteroid that wiped out the Ankylosaurus, T-rex, Triceratops, and many other dinosaurs collided into the…
After enduring a multiquarter selloff that started in late 2021, the value of software companies on the public market is recovering. The modest rebound posted thus far appears to have formed after a bottom in valuation terms was reached in mid-June, toward the end of the second quarter. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money….
Portal, the beleaguered brand of smart displays released in 2018 by Meta (then Facebook), is reportedly slated for a phase-out as the company refocuses the product line on the enterprise. Ahead of the transition, Meta is releasing new features — perhaps some of the last for current owners, as the case may be — that…
For co-founders Amogha Tadimety and Alison Burklund, the idea of starting Nanopath, a women-focused molecular diagnostic company, came from a need to create a company focused on women’s health diagnoses based on their own experiences. They said they wanted to make sure women can get proper diagnoses because scientifically, there’s no reason they shouldn’t. “We…
Google recently did the unthinkable: It changed the way Gmail looks…again. It’s one of the great cardinal sins of the tech world — to make unexpected, unsolicited, and potentially unwanted changes to something so familiar, and indeed so essential to our daily existence. What is life if not an endless stream of unwanted emails, gradually…
Amazon has announced an expansion of its palm-reading payments service, Amazon One, which will come to a range of new Whole Foods stores across the state of California. Until now, only a handful of Whole Foods stores in locations like New York and LA have been equipped with the necessary facilities, but the expansion will…
Applebee’s. Scott Olson/Getty Images Wealthier consumers are going to Applebee’s and IHOP, while lower-income diners are pulling back. Earnings from the restaurants’ owner show that sales grew 6% to 8% among higher-income households. But both restaurants saw sales drop among households making less than $50,000 a year. Applebee’s and IHOP are gaining wealthier consumers whose…