Ash Tankha - Articles

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Patenting System - a Historic Perspective
News items flooding from our daily information sources on patents, company law suits, intellectual property rights, and the like would make one believe that the system of patenting is quite young. On the contrary, history of patenting dates back to more than five hundred years. Read
By: Ash Tankha | 07/06/2007 | Patents
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Seeing the Same. But Different..
Vincent Lombardi, the great American football coach, once said, “Winning is a habit.” Inventing, too, can be made into a habit. Thomas Edison, for example, filed hundreds of patents and during one phase of his life was filing a patent application every week. Inventors seem to have the ability to recognize dissimilarity in similarity, contrast in analogies, and novelty in familiarity. Read
By: Ash Tankha | 07/06/2007 | Technology
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Future Technology - Smart Materials
A family of materials with an ability to change few of its original properties by the application of any external stimuli, such as stress, temperature, moisture, pH, electric and magnetic fields are called Smart Materials. Smart materials find a wide range of application areas due to their varied response to external stimuli. Read
By: Ash Tankha | 07/06/2007 | Electronics
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Electronics and Semiconductor Patents - an Evolution Scenario
In recent years, there has been an extensive boost in technological concepts related to electronics and electrical domain. Electronics and semiconductor engineering is one of the largest and fastest growing industries. This growth has entailed a wide range of patent filing, all through. Read
By: Ash Tankha | 07/06/2007 | Patents
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A Prologue to Mechanical Patents
Mechanical engineering perhaps has the oldest known inventions and patents.Mechanical inventions have no constraints as they range from a simple yet effective patented invention of a four year old from Texas for “An aid for grasping round knobs” to researched and focused inventions in all areas of mechanical expertise. Read
By: Ash Tankha | 07/06/2007 | Intellectual Property
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Innovation Through Distributed Intellegence
Given that research drives innovation products, it is imperative we introduce innovation in the research and development process. This article examines the various stages of research and development within a company and proposes a novel of cross industry research by tapping on distributed domain intelligence across companies and countries. Read
By: Ash Tankha | 07/06/2007 | Technology