The patent profiteers
Article Abstract:
The ambitions of the tiny Acacia technologies to own patents that cover virtually every aspect of transferring digitally encoded media from a server to a customer is explained. It is speculated that Acacia technologies is interested in patents for technologies which may have a future.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2004
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Reading the unreadable
Article Abstract:
The scratches on a VCD or DVD is now a thing of the past. The husband-wife team of Paul and Michelle Crowley, through their company InfinaDyne, in Grayslake, III, sells a software suite of data recovery tools to undo these damaged disks.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2004
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