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In 2012, Sony was granted an extremely interesting patent allowing users to skip commercials if they stood up and shouted the brand name at their TV. Sony described the patent as “a system that converts TV commercials into interactive online video games.” For example, if a user stands in the living room shouting “McDonalds!”, the […]

Sharing and accessing files online among an unlimited number of computers is one of the hallmarks of Dropbox.  In August 2010, Dropbox co-founders and MIT Alumni, Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowski, filed a patent for network folder synchronisation. This patent details the process of how multiple clients can share and synchronise folders and their content […]

    An analysis of data over a period from 1963 to 1993 by Josheski and Koteski has shown: There is a direct causation between patent production and GDP growth.  There is a positive relationship between the number of patents produced in the economy and GDP growth.  It is not important whether the patents are […]