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May 2001
5 Patents to Watch
A handful of hot new patents that may change the way business and technology get done.
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Features

Business Impact

The TR Patent Scorecard 2001

Whose patent portfolio is most potent? We rank 150 of the world’s top companies according to the quality and quantity of their patents.
Featured Story
The Next Generation of Optical Fibers
Featured Story
Laying Down the Law
Sustainable Energy
Power to the People
Rewriting Life
The Programmable Pill
Intelligent Machines
Battle for the Unseen Computer

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Rewriting Life

Return to the Future

From the editor in chief

Intelligent Machines

Diamond Chips

Scientists have developed a crystalline diamond film that could produce more resilient semiconductor chips than those made from silicon.

Business Impact

Edible Wraps

Rewriting Life

Rocket Power

Rewriting Life

Biotech Food Detector

Rewriting Life

Mixing Darks with Lights

Fun with Fluids

Rewriting Life

Pond Pills

Intelligent Machines

Nano Storage

Waste Not, Want Not

A Donor Named Wilbur

Medicine: Pig-to-human transplants could become standard practice in just a few years.

New Sky Eye

Space

Intelligent Machines

Shrinking the Circuit Board

Hardware

Business Impact

Seed Spat

AG Biotech

Precision Approach

Air Traffic: Boeing launches satellite air-traffic pitch.

Behind BlueEyes

Software

Intelligent Machines

Calling All PCs

Biotech: Home computers help to find a cure for disease.

Business Impact

Robomining

Robotics

A Very Long Distance

Mobile telephony was once considered a niche market.

Dot What?

Seven new Internet domain names now offer more cyber real estate. But is anyone buying?

Playing By Heart

We should cherish leisure technologies (think piano, not PlayStation) that are hard to learn.

Sustainable Energy

TV Tomorrow

Designers of interactive television seem to inhabit a different reality than the people who care about TV.

Business Impact

PB&J Patent Punch-up

Someone’s managed to patent a crustless PB&J, and it ain’t Mom.

Intelligent Machines

Protein Chips

Postage-stamp-sized chips analyze thousands of protein samples fast and cheap.

Business Impact

War's Coming Digital Fog

Michael Schrage reviews Lifting the Fog of War by Bill Owens and Friendly Fire by Scott A. Snook.

Intelligent Machines

Holographic Memory

How holographic data storage works.

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