Posts Tagged: "national academy of sciences"

The Ability to Synthesize DNA: Marvin Caruthers Revolutionized DNA Synthesis

The ability to synthesize DNA through chemical processes is undoubtedly a marvel among modern technological advances and figures into a wide array of industry sectors… This Tuesday, July 3rd, marks the 34th anniversary of the issue of one of the seminal patents in the field of DNA synthesis. The lead inventor, Marvin Caruthers, is a member of the 2018 class of inductees into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Steve Brachmann

July 3, 2018

Tax Reform to Revive the American Innovation Culture

The U.S. patent promise of exclusivity has become nothing more than lip service with no credibility for more than half a century. A patent system maintained by offering lip service must fail over time. The American inventor population is vanishing rapidly as a result of the changed laws and anti-patent movement. If the patent reward fails, both those who are inventors and those who would be inventors will be influenced not to pursue innovating and society will see an era of slow progress. Bad policy advice has misled Congress into belief that inventing without the participation of inventors will be fine. Reality will soon prove it was a fatal mistake that the U.S. should not have made.

Jianqing Wu, Ph.D.

October 18, 2017

USPTO, NSF and NBC Launch “Science of Innovation” Series

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and NBC Learn, the educational arm of NBC News, today launched an 11-part “Science of Innovation” series to coincide with the 165th birthday of American inventor Thomas Edison. The program represents the latest intellectual property (IP) education efforts by the USPTO and serves as a public-private partnership leveraging the best strengths of federal agencies, industry, and educators to demonstrate the connection between IP and the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.

U.S.P.T.O.

February 11, 2013

Obama Pledges 3% of GDP to Science Research

Just about 10 days ago, on April 27, 2009, President Barack Obama gave a speech at the National Academy of Sciences. In this speech the President pledged “3 percent of our GDP to research and development.” With a GDP of $14,075.5 billion, that would equate to research spending of $422 billion. As you can imagine, this announcement was received with…

Gene Quinn

May 6, 2009