Posts by: smulrean

BU Wins $13Million in Patent Infringement Suit

12.07.2015 By Joel Brown A discovery in the lab of Theodore Moustakas, College of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Photonics and Optoelectronics Emeritus, was the subject of the patent infringement case BU brought against several companies. A US District Court jury has awarded Boston University more than $13 million after finding that three companies infringed on […]

Startup selling solar panels ‘in the cloud,’ not on your roof

By Callum BorchersGlobe Staff March 06, 2015 If anyone seems likely to put solar panels on his roof, it’s Michael Sun. Besides the tailor-made name, he’s spent the past five years researching solar cell efficiency as a doctoral student at Boston University. But Sun rents an apartment, so — much as he’d like to power […]