A jury has awarded $234 million to a University of Wisconsin-Madison foundation responsible for patent licensing in an infringement lawsuit against Apple, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.
Facing state budget cuts to the University of Wisconsin system and dwindling federal funding, Robert Golden would love to find a pile of money somewhere.
A federal court jury in Madison has awarded $234 million in damages to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation in its patent infringement lawsuit against Apple Inc.
Apple fights patent cases fairly often – and doesn’t always win – so Friday’s loss is not a totally new phenomenon. What makes the case unusual was the party that sued: a computer science professor and three graduate students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison examined the variations and trends in the onset of spring across the Northern Hemisphere’s temperate regions and calculated that the onset of spring plant growth will shift by a median of three weeks earlier over the next century. Their findings were published in the journal Environmental Research Letters yesterday.
A U.S. jury on Friday ordered Apple to pay the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s patent licensing arm more than $234 million in damages for incorporating its microchip technology into some of the company’s iPhones and iPads without permission.
Deep beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, sensors buried in a billion tons of ice—a cubic kilometer of frozen H2O—are searching for neutrinos. Not just any kind of neutrino, though. The IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory wants to discover the sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays and thus solve one of science’s oldest mysteries.
As a veteran of the global smart phone wars, Apple is used to courtroom battles with fierce competitors such as Samsung and Nokia.
A federal jury found Apple guilty this week of illegally using a patent owned by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. The jury is set to decide the settlement amount Friday.
University of Wisconsin announced Tuesday biochemistry researchers who developed a groundbreaking method to test for colon cancer are one of several recipients of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Innovation Award.
This early staged research currently ongoing at UW would allow patients to have their blood drawn to test for colon cancer, instead of more invasive tests.
UW alumna Melanie Ivancic joined project leader, professor of biochemistry Michael Sussman’s team in 2008 to work on her Ph.D. thesis in biochemistry.
A federal court jury’s decision against Apple Inc. in a patent infringement case this week has the potential to award nearly $400 million in damages to the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation — but a Madison lawyer said Wednesday that Apple is likely to appeal.
Two India-born engineers are part of a team that won a big case against Apple Inc. in the U.S. this week.
A federal jury ruled Apple Inc. infringed on a University of Wisconsin patent when developing processors for some recent iPhones and iPads, the latest in a string of disputes over the technology undergirding smartphones.
Apple’s potential damages in a patent fight with the University of Wisconsin’s licensing body could reach $400 million as a trial on the amount Apple owes for infringing a processor patent got under way on Wednesday, two people familiar with the case said.
You may have heard that Apple’s on the hook for $862 million in potential penalties after a jury ruled that it infringed on a patent owned by the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin, U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service say warmer weather earlier in the year might have consequences for farmers as well as wildlife.
“Our projections show that winter will be shorter—which sound great for those of us in Wisconsin,” Andrew Allstadt, a [postdoctoral] researcher [in forest and wildlife ecology] at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an author on the paper, said in a statement “But long distance migratory birds, for example, time their migration based on day length in their winter range. They may arrive in their breeding ground to find that the plant resources that they require are already gone.”
(Video) The state Senate’s health committee has approved a bill that would outlaw research using tissue obtained from aborted fetuses.
A federal jury has found Apple Inc. infringed on a technology patent held by the foundation that protects the University of Wisconsin’s intellectual property.
The company could face up to $862 million in damages over the patent by the University of Wisconsin-Madison that improves processor efficiency.
“We know spring is getting earlier. But we provide actual evidence for how much earlier,” said Andrew Allstadt, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who was part of the research team.
The state Senate’s health committee has approved a bill that would outlaw research using tissue obtained from aborted fetuses.
Planning to indulge in a caramel apple this fall? You may want to eat it fresh or at least make sure it’s refrigerated, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Food Research Institute found that caramel apples punctured with dipping sticks and left unrefrigerated over the course of a couple of weeks may harbor Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium linked to a serious infection that can cause fever, headaches, gastrointestinal symptoms and sometimes death.
Apple Inc could be facing up to $862 million in damages after a U.S. jury on Tuesday found the iPhone maker used technology owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s licensing arm without permission in chips found in many of its most popular devices.
A federal court jury in Madison on Tuesday found Apple Inc. guilty of infringing on a patent held by the foundation that protects the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s intellectual rights when the company rolled out its 2013 and 2014 iPhone and iPad lineups.
Apple could have to pay up to $862m (£562m) in damages after a jury ruled that chip technology used in the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus violates a university’s patent.
Interdisciplinary research with the potential to inform policymaking received a huge boost on Sept. 21 with the dedication of a new University of Wisconsin-Madison Federal Statistical Research Data Center, or FSRDC, on the UW campus.
The Republican-controlled committee is slated to consider the bill Tuesday in the state Capitol. Passage looks all but certain and would clear the way for a vote in the full Senate.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have discovered a method to precisely detect and treat glioblastoma, a malignant form of brain cancer.
Chemotherapy drugs usually succeed at killing cancer cells, but some cancers have a tendency to develop a resistance to treatment, according to a University of Wisconsin Health release.
“If a patient will not be sensitive to a treatment, they should not be placed on that treatment. They should not be over-treated,” said Dr. Wei Xu, professor of oncology at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center and McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and senior author of the study. “Also, we want to give timely treatments, because if you match the patient to the right treatment, you’re more likely to save someone’s life.”
A $3 million grant will allow the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center to coordinate research among six of the nation’s top research institutions, according to a UW Health release.
The Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program is funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Cancer Institute, officials said. The project is looking to prevent cancer by pinpointing its environmental causes and factors.
We all thought it was a miracle when the Wisconsin Badgers beat Kentucky in the Final Four. Legislators – both Republican and Democrat – couldn’t wait to honor the University of Wisconsin basketball team.
Nearly 50 years after the late Harvard psychologist Timothy Leary told people to “turn on, tune in, drop out” with psilocybin, LSD and other psychedelic drugs — which became illegal in 1970 — researchers around the country are testing the substances’ ability to reduce anxiety and depression in people with terminal cancer.
Kandis Elliot has devoted her career to making science more beautiful — and accessible. As emerita senior artist at the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Botany, she spent decades illustrating plants and animals to educate and delight the public.
Noted: “If they did not have those trial drugs and didn’t do that extra work [at the Carbone Cancer Center], I don’t think she would have ever had that time. I actually don’t think she would have made it past that first summer.”
Because of that, Rich decided to honor Sherri by participating in the Carbone’s Race for Research, a 5K run and walk. Money from donations is used to continue the cancer research.
This could be big for UW-Madison. It’s exactly the sort of transformative discovery you would expect from a great research university. Like Harry Steenbock fortifying the vitamin D content of milk. Like James Thomson unlocking the mystery and promise of stem cells. In this case, two UW researchers have pioneered a breakthrough that could end of the flood of human antibiotics into animal feed.
The mysterious human ancestor called Homo naledi was primed for success in a prehistoric triathlon, new research shows—if the challenges were walking upright, climbing trees, and handily wielding tools.
MANITOWOC — There are stories hidden below the water of Lake Michigan. That includes shipwrecks – hundreds of them.
GREEN LAKE — Keeping water healthy in and around Green Lake, was the goal of an environmental field trip Monday.
William C. Campbell, who shared a Nobel Prize in medicine announced Monday, said that his time as a graduate student at UW-Madison helped shape his career. Arlie C. Todd and Chester A. Herrick, the professors who oversaw his research as a veterinary science and zoology student in the 1950s, gave him the freedom to be intuitive in his work, Campbell said in an interview from his home in Massachusetts. “That was very valuable,” Campbell said. He said he was allowed to develop his interests and to be imaginative in his approach, something not all professors of the day encouraged.
Associated Press story on three scientists from the U.S., Japan and China — including a UW-Madison alumnus William Campbell— who won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering drugs to fight malaria and other tropical diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people every year.
Three scientists who used modern laboratory techniques to discover anti-parasitic drugs long hidden in herbs and soil won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday.
A master’s and doctoral graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison was awarded a portion of the 2015 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, according to a release from the university.
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin is one of three scientists who’ve been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine. William Campbell and Satoshi Omura of Japan were honored for discovering the drug Avermectin. Two derivatives of that drug helped reduce the presence of diseases caused by parasitic worms, mostly in Asia and Africa. The other Nobel Prize winner is Tu Youyou, China’s first medicine laureate. He created a drug that sharply dropped mortality rates for malaria.
As she watched the surgeon operating on a farmer who had suffered third-degree burns across 95% of his body, researcher Lynn Allen-Hoffmann realized instantly she had a new mission: making human skin.
Successful organic farmers use agricultural practices that maximize crop production and benefit the environment. These organic management strategies were highlighted at the University of Wisconsin Organic Agriculture Field Day, held at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station Sept. 2.
UW-Madison isn’t the only university to find the fetal tissue research battle on its doorstep as legislators seek to prohibit the use of tissue from aborted fetuses for research in light of the fallout from the Planned Parenthood sting videos. Since the release of the videos this summer, five states – including Wisconsin – have introduced legislation around fetal tissue donation and research, Elizabeth Nash of the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health advocacy group, told ThinkProgress. Arizona is looking at an administrative rules approach.
Three scientists from the U.S., Japan and China, including a University of Wisconsin-Madison alum, won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering drugs to fight malaria and other tropical diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people every year.
The medicines they helped develop are credited with improving the lives of millions. And now three researchers working in the U.S., Japan, and China have won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Among the winners: William C. Campbell of Drew University in Madison N.J., for his work on the roundworm parasite. Campbell is a UW alum.
Officials of the nation’s leading universities have watched with dread as the fallout from the Planned Parenthood sting videos has threatened to engulf labs that depend on fetal tissue for research.
Sure, nails look pretty all trimmed and polished, and they make opening a can of soda a lot easier, but these are not the reasons that humans have fingernails. So what is the reason? It’s because humans are primates, said John Hawks, a biological anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Unlike most mammals, which have claws for digging and climbing, humans and other primates have fingertips that are perfect for grasping tools and other objects, Hawks told Live Science in 2013.
While debate continues over the nature of climate change, the public next Tuesday can hear from a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who says human health risks pose the largest of threats.
Quoted: Dr. Michael Fiore and Timothy Baker, tobacco researchers from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, wrote in a commentary in the journal that the study shows the potential for a policy to cut nicotine that “could help to end the devastating health consequences” of smoking.
Matthew Desmond’s “genius grant” was made in Madison and Milwaukee. Desmond, 35, is a sociologist who earned his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and whose groundbreaking work on the impact of eviction on the urban poor came from his granular research in Milwaukee.
We all thought it was a miracle when the Badgers beat Kentucky in the Final Four. Legislators — both Republicans and Democrats — couldn’t wait to honor the University of Wisconsin basketball team. But the real miracles are happening in the labs at UW, at the Waisman Center, at Research Park, and across Wisconsin.
An unprecedented avian influenza epidemic struck the poultry industry in the U.S. over the spring and early summer of 2015.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., joined three other members of Congress Tuesday in a letter questioning the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ policies regarding the sale of fetal tissue.
No mention of UW-Madison but a germane and particularly good examination of the use of fetal tissue in research: The National Institutes of Health alone funds about $76 million in fetal cell research each year. This type of scientific study has gone on for decades.
NIH Director Francis Collins, writing about the difficulty of screening new drugs for toxicity: “As an important step in this direction, NIH-funded researchers at the Morgridge Institute for Research and University of Wisconsin-Madison have produced neural tissue chips with many features of a developing human brain.”
Davenport native David Glowacki, 56, is part of a project that’s preoccupied with minutiae. Through the software Glowacki develops, scientists observe minutiae — specifically, nearly mass-less particles called neutrinos — at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a powerful telescope at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica.
Artists find their muses in different places. For example, Kandis Elliot recently finished rendering every single kind of fish in Wisconsin.
Scientists in Wisconsin have succeeded in growing three-dimensional brainlike tissue structures derived from human embryonic stem cells. Unlike previous miniature model brains, the new structures can be easily reproduced and they contain vascular cells and microglia, a type of immune cell.
