U.S. SUPREME RULING COURT GIVES SAMSUNG VICTORY OVER APPLE

Posted on December 7, 2016December 7, 2016

On December 6, 2016, in a unanimous opinion the U.S. Supreme Court threw out a lower court’s $399 million judgment against Samsung for violating Apple’s design patents, which had awarded Apple damages based on the profits Samsung made in regard to its infringing device as a whole. The Supreme Court has changed this calculation of […]

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HEY CHEMISTS, TIME TO THROW YOUR OLD PERIODIC TABLE IN THE TRASH!

Posted on December 5, 2016

Recently, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) approved the names of the four new elements 113, 115, 117, and 118: Nihonium (Nh), Moscovium (Mc), Tennessine (Ts), and Oganesson (Og). These elements are not found in nature. Each of these elements was created in a lab by blasting beams of heavy nuclei at […]