AIR-INK: The world's first ink made out of air pollution

AIR-INK is made out of air pollution particulate matter––namely the unburned carbon soot you see coming out of the exhaust pipe of cars, chimneys, generators, and more.

 

 

AIR-INK is created through a three-step process.

Step 1. While cheaper carbon black inks are manufactured through the deliberate burning of fossil fuels, use proprietary device––what it called KAALINK––to capture soot that is already being emitted from vehicles. KAALINK is retrofitted to the exhaust pipe of vehicles/generators to capture the outgoing pollutants. 

Step 2. The soot undergoes various proprietary processes to remove heavy metals and carcinogens. The end product is a purified carbon rich pigment.

 

Step 3. The carbon is then used to make different types of inks and paints.

 

Artist Kristopher Ho using AIR-INK to beautify a public space in Hong Kong.

 

 

AIR-INK is currently available as 2mm, 15mm, 30mm and 50mm markers, and a 150ml screen printing ink set and plan to  work towards releasing oil based paints, fabric paints, outdoor paints, and more. 

 

Swag decorated with AIR-INK markers, paints, and screen printing inks.

 

 

 

 

Extracted from kickstarter.com

 

 

 

Motorola Solutions vs. Hytera

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Motorola Solutions has kicked off patent infringement proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against Hytera Communications in both Australia and China.

 

Hytera is a Chinese-headquartered manufacturer of radio transceivers and radio systems.

 

Motorola Solutions has previously filed complaints of patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation against Hytera in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on 14 March, a patent infringement complaint filed with the US International Trade Commission on 29 March, patent infringement complaints were also filed with the Regional Court of Düsseldorf in Germany on 18 April and with the Regional Court of Mannheim in Germany on 24 July.

 

In Australia, the statement of claim filed with the court alleges that some Hytera digital mobile radios sold in locally infringe three Motorola Solutions' patents.

 

Motorola Solutions seeks a declaration from the Australian Federal Court that Hytera has infringed Motorola Solutions’ patents and an order to permanently restrain Hytera from continued alleged infringement, as well as damages and additional relief if the court deems it appropriate.

 

 

extracted from www.arnnet.com.au 



Apple paid $2 billion to Nokia as part of lawsuit settlement

www.ipnomic.co.kr


According to TechCrunch 28^th, Apple paid Nokia $2 billion in cash to settle a long-running patent dispute. In the Q2 closing report of Nokia announced that it has received a $2 billion upfront cash payment from Apple (€1.7 billion).

 

After a quick fight, Apple and Nokia settled a patent lawsuit back in May. Nokia has been accused Apple of infringing some of Nokia’s patents as well as patents from NSN and Alcatel-Lucent -Nokia owns those companies and their respective patent portfolios.

 

It looked like an intense fight at first as Apple removed Withings’ products from its stores — Withings is a division of Nokia. But the two companies quickly reached an agreement and you can find Withings products again in Apple stores.

Instead of signing a usual patent licensing deal, Apple and Nokia want to go a step further and collaborate on technologies and research and development. In other words, Apple is paying Nokia to help them when it comes to digital health, optical network and IP routing.

 

References www.ipnomics.co.kr/ www.techcrunch.com