Abhilasha Bora
Joined Patexia at Feb 24, 2011
Abhilasha Bora
Sep 24, 2011
“Le Chal,” meaning “take me there” in Hindi, is the name of a new walking aid for those with visual impairments: haptic (sense of touch) shoes, designed by an Indian student, Anirudh Sharma. He designed these during an MIT Media Lab workshop hosted at the College of Engineering in Pune,... Read More
Abhilasha Bora
Sep 14, 2011
Having spent a holiday not more than a couple weeks back in the midst of enticing and sublime coral reef islands, I could not let pass this piece of news that caught me with a jolt—that coral reefs would be first among our ecosystems to vanish completely! Marine ecologist Peter... Read More
Abhilasha Bora
Sep 7, 2011
Researchers at Tufts University in Somerville, Massachusetts, have taken a proud next step in nanotechnology by creating the world's smallest electric motor, the size of a single molecule and made from a molecule too. The motor is a single molecule that accepts an electrical charge and rotates as fast as... Read More
Abhilasha Bora
Aug 23, 2011
Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., a Californian company recently obtained a patent vide Patent No. 8,000,000 on a technology aimed at helping the blind see light and shapes through the use of tiny video cameras. It is concerned with a visual apparatus and a method for creation of artificial vision.... Read More
Abhilasha Bora
Aug 18, 2011
Do large corporations use trade mark law to harass smaller businesses by amplifying the scope of their trademark rights? What happens when a 30 year old small shoe store in my town is threatened to be put shut by a ‘metro’ brand that lands new for the small city... Read More
Abhilasha Bora
Aug 2, 2011
The US Court of Appeals has ruled that isolated genes from human DNA structures are patentable in the case of The Association for Molecular Pathology v. USPTO [1]. USpatent law provides that ‘products of nature’ are not patentable. Do these statements appear to contradict each other? And you wouldn’t be too... Read More