Posts Tagged: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA Licenses Patent Portfolio to Achieve Widest Possible Distribution of Technology
NASA will enter into a range of different patent license agreements from no-cost evaluation licenses up to exclusive license. The agency’s goal in licensing technologies is …
NASA Tech in Your Life, From Hair Care to Coffee Makers to Baby Formula
NASA recently launched a new version of its Home & City website featuring a redesigned, interactive interface designed to give users a sense of the scope of technologies …
NASA Announces First Flight of Ikhana Unmanned Aircraft in Commercial Airspace Without Safety Chase Aircraft
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently announced the agency’s remotely-piloted Ikhana unmanned aircraft successfully completed its first flight within the National Airspace System (NAS) …
House Subcommittees Hold Hearing on Space Situational Awareness and Space Traffic Management
A joint hearing of the House Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and the House Subcommittee on Space was recently convened to discuss the responsibilities of various U.S. …
Benefits of NASA Space Directive on Mars could be Limited by Uncertain Software, Biotech Patentability
President Donald Trump signed a new space policy directive for human expansion across the solar system, a directive which hearkens at least slightly back to Horace Greeley’…
Government and 3D Printing: A New Line of Innovation to Protect
For the last 20 years, manufacturers have used 3D printing to build prototypes, but it was only recently that this industrial technology entered the mainstream. The 3D printing …
NASA powers up core computer system of Orion spacecraft for the first time
In late August, news reports indicated that the Orion spacecraft being developed for NASA’s manned mission to Mars was powered up for the first time at …
Other Barks for Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017
The highest federal court in the United States declines to hear an appeal from tech giants on applying common sense to patent validity challenge proceedings. A group …
Other Barks & Bites for Wednesday, March 1st, 2017
Another covered business method review is overturned by the Federal Circuit because the Patent Trial and Appeal Board instituted a CBM on a patent that was not …
Change in NASA focus between Administrations may be greatest threat to Mars mission
Multiple members of the hearing’s witness panel attested to the problems created when agency plans change during a change of administration, a problem which Lt. Gen. …
NASA, AIPLA, IPO among those who oppose USPTO fee increases
According to the USPTO, the fee increases are designed to better cover the costs of the USPTO’s main patent operations as well as PTAB operations and …
Senate unanimously passes NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2016
The NASA Transition Authorization Act would require NASA to develop propulsion technologies intended to reduce travel time to Mars, as well as develop a strategic framework for …
NASA releases 56 patents to public domain, creates searchable database portal for commercial spin-offs
NASA released 56 formerly-patented technologies to the public domain so that they can be used by commercial enterprises prior to their expiration. Patents released by NASA into the …
NASA’s Juno craft to reach Jupiter on July 4th to find what’s hidden beneath the clouds
Since 1972, NASA has sent a series of eight spacecraft to this fifth planet in our solar system, including Cassini and Galileo. This 4th of July, NASA engineers …
Mount St. Helens sees increased seismic activity as anniversary of eruption nears
This year, May 18th will mark the 36th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens, an active stratovolcano situated in Washington State’s Skamania County and …
