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Chemists Make Olympic Rings On a Molecular Scale

Posted by samzenpus on from the arts-and-crafts dept.

ananyo writes "Chemists in the UK have made a five-ring polyaromatic hydrocarbon and dubbed it 'olympicene'. The molecule is just a couple of nanometers wide and can be regarded as a little fragment of graphene. Strictly speaking, of course, the molecule might constitute an 'unofficial use' of the motif and land the scientists in court for copyright infringement."

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  1. Re:Category error by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    To be fair, when their own enforcement officers can't tell the difference, why expect a little news article to get it right?

    http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4342335/Olympic-ban-for-florist.html

    Coca-Cola threatened her for copyright infringement over their trademark. It was said literally one sentence after another.

    So I in fact think it is perfectly justified to *repeat* the threats of trademark infringement and copyright infringement as Coca-Cola themselves have stated.

  2. Re:Hardcoded famous trademark by NicknamesAreStupid · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In the spirit of competition, these chemists will patent the process, which will trump the trademark. Touché

  3. Not linked! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well it's OK I suppose, but the rings in the olympiadane molecule are properly linked, and that was synthesized already back in 1994.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympiadane