Category: Inventions and Patents

TAG Heuer’s Watches Now Have Her Touch

The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Carole Forestier-Kasapi’s first projects for the Swiss brand, including a solar energy movement, are being introduced this year.
A Drug Company Exploited a Safety Requirement to Make Money

The New York Times – Business:
With a history as a date rape drug, a medication needed strict distribution controls. Its maker, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, used that to delay competition.
Why China Didn’t Invent ChatGPT

The New York Times – Business:
The state’s hardening censorship and heavier hand have held back its tech industry; so has entrepreneurs’ reluctance to invest for the long term. It wasn’t always that way.
‘Miracle’ Cystic Fibrosis Drug Kept Out of Reach in Developing Countries

The New York Times – Business:
Vertex Pharmaceuticals is not making its drug, Trikafta, available in poorer countries, where thousands of diagnosed patients stand to benefit.
How a Drug Company Made $114 Billion by Gaming the U.S. Patent System

The New York Times – Business:
AbbVie for years delayed competition for its blockbuster drug Humira, at the expense of patients and taxpayers. The monopoly is about to end.
What Happened to All of Science’s Big Breakthroughs?

The New York Times – Business:
A new study finds a steady drop since 1945 in disruptive feats as a share of the world’s booming enterprise in scientific and technological advancement.
Will This Device Protect Athletes’ Brains, or Only Make Them Think It Does?

The New York Times – Sports:
More and more pro and college athletes are trying on the Q-Collar as they search for something, anything, that might keep their brains safe. But does it work?
Herbert Deutsch, Co-Creator of the Moog Synthesizer, Dies at 90

The New York Times – Music:
An experimental composer, Mr. Deutsch collaborated with Robert Moog to create the first synthesizer to make a significant impact on popular music, launching a revolution in electronic music.
With Promise of Legalization, Psychedelic Companies Joust Over Future Profits

The New York Times – Business:
Cash rich start-ups are filing scores of patent claims on hallucinogens like magic mushrooms. Researchers and patient advocates worry high prices will make the therapies unaffordable.
Lenny Lipton, ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ Lyricist and 3-D Film Pioneer, Dies at 82

The New York Times – Music:
He used the royalties earned from the hit folk song to fund decades of research into stereoscopic projection.