Intellectual Property News Roundup 31. Bringing you the best from the web.

An ingenious way to demonstrate the affects piracy has on the gaming industry. 

 

To continue with the same theme, a study has some findings that avid video gamers may find extremely compelling. Take a read and gain an excuse for next time you play!

 

Want to see through the ‘eyes’ of Google’s self-driving car? Click here to (apparently) do just that!

 

The world’s smallest movie! Brought to you courtesy of IBM and worthy of the Guinness Book of Records. 

 

The mantis shrimp could quite possibly our favourite animal…of all time. Click here to read why. 

 

A fantastic invention and something we at F&A would find extremely useful, what with all the networking and occasional international conference! 

 

It wouldn’t be a News Roundup without some coverage of Apple and so here it is – a mouse that is so much more than just a mouse!….clever mouse. 

 

A case study of how the new first-to-file rather than first-to-invent ruling in the US is affecting smaller entrepreneurs.  

 

Could this little bit of technology help reduce hospitals’ so called ‘never events’. Intrigued? Click here to read more. 

 

The release of the Xbox One has definitely encouraged a debate of its appeal, although the lack of detail provided at the launch does not leave the consumer very informed – whether they be a dedicated gamer or family (which seems to be the demographic favoured in the little detail known). 

 

And on that note, this article suggests that Microsoft could in fact be sealing its own fate (assuming the technology referred to in the application is implemented).

 

Wait, scratch that. It seems they are most definitely providing the nails for their own coffin with this interview with Microsoft’s Phil Harrison explaining the confusion surrounding sharing discs on the new console.

 

Kim Dotcom is taking on the likes of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Twitter and Dropbox and claims they must contribute to his astronomical court fees. 

 

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