Patent News for Wednesday 8th November 2023

1. Nike sues New Balance, Skechers for patent infringement: What is the technology ...

Nike has filed lawsuits against New Balance and Skechers, accusing them of infringing patents related to Nike's Flyknit technology.

2. What Attys Expect From USPTO Guidance On AI And Patents - Law360 UK

What Attys Expect From USPTO Guidance On AI And Patents. By Ryan Davis. Law360 (November 7, 2023, 9:19 PM EST) -- Guidance on artificial ...

3. FTC Challenges Asthma Product Patents Listed With FDA - Law360

The Federal Trade Commission challenged over 100 patents related to asthma treatment held by 10 major pharmaceutical companies including ...

4. US FTC disputes over 100 medical patents listed with FDA including asthma inhalers - MSN

... patents that could lead to delays in generic competition. Many of the patents at issue in the Food and Drug Administration's Orange Book.

5. The FTC is threating legal action against drug makers over patent abuses - NPR

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, about drug companies holding patents on medications for much longer ...

6. Global decrease in trademark filings, WIPO reports, but continued rise in patents

China was also ahead in terms of patents, filing 1.58 million applications last year, followed by the US (505,539), Japan (405,361), Republic of Korea ...

7. Signal: Toyota dominates solid-state battery patents - Just Auto

Japanese automaker Toyota leads in solid-state battery patents, having been awarded some 8,274 solid-state battery grants over the past three years, ...

8. FTC challenges dozens of 'improper' US drug patents - Pharmaphorum

For example, AZ is being challenged over patents for its asthma inhaler Symbicort (budesonide/formoterol), which made $2.5 billion in sales last year, ...

9. Analysis of the Delhi High Court's Judgment in Raytheon Company vs Controller General of ...

Sections 3 and 4 of the Indian Patents Act 1970 provide a list of subject matter considered non-patentable in India. For example, for…

10. Renaissance BioScience secures additional patents for acrylamide-reducing yeast technology

Renaissance BioScience is pleased to announce that it has recently been granted patents for its non-GMO acrylamide-reducing yeast from regulatory ...

11. Milestones in U.S. patenting - Cloned - USPTO

The 9,957 patents granted before the numbering system are now known as the X-patents. A catastrophic fire destroys the Patent Office in 1936. This ...

12. New York City among most innovative US metros, report finds - The Business Journals

A new analysis from CommercialCafe counted the number of artificial intelligence and machine-learning patents secured in metros across the nation, ...

13. Fed. Circ. Judge Casts Doubt On Sweetener Enzyme Patents - Law360

A Federal Circuit judge raised doubts Tuesday about the validity of PureCircle USA Inc.'s patents for non-caloric food sweeteners, suggesting the ...

14. Hyundai Patents Folding Steering Wheel To Assist Rotund Drivers - AutoSpies Auto News

Hyundai Patents Folding Steering Wheel To Assist Rotund Drivers. Agent009 submitted on 11/8/2023 Auto Spies Photos Timestamp: 8:04:41 AM. Views ...

15. ENDRA Life Sciences Achieves Intellectual Property Milestone with Issuance of Three New Patents

ENDRA Life Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ: NDRA), a pioneer of Thermo Acoustic Enhanced UltraSound (TAEUS®), announces the issuance of three new patents, ...

16. China owns over 4.8 mln valid invention patents: NIPA - Xinhua

BEIJING, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- The number of valid invention patents and trademarks in China has exceeded 4.8 million and 45.1 million, respectively, ...

17. FTC challenges over 100 patents in FDA's Orange Book - Global Competition Review

The Federal Trade Commission has disputed over 100 patents in the Food and Drug Administration's Orange Book that the agency says may stall ...

18. Andhra University Achieves Milestone with Over 100 Patents Filed for Innovations

The university published four patents in 2017-18, followed by three in 2018-19 and three more in 2019-20. However, the real surge in patent filing and ...

19. Stratus® Medical adds fifth U.S. patent and two Canadian patents to its 29 ... - InvestorsObserver

The Company now owns 29 issued patents and 11 pending patent applications for its technology and will continue to submit additional applications.

20. Stratus® Medical adds fifth U.S. patent and two Canadian patents to its 29-patent ... - PR Newswire

These important patents further protect the Company's valuable NIMBUS intellectual property for its highly differentiated ablation technology for pain ...

21. FAU, NAI Offer Students Intellectual Property Certificate

... patents, copyrights and trademarks. Beginning this fall, the intellectual property certificate program was integrated into the freshman curriculum ...

22. Biden FTC Applauded for 'Going After Big Pharma' by Challenging 100 Patents

The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday disputed more than 100 patents held by pharmaceutical companies that make asthma inhalers, EpiPens, ...

23. FTC challenges 'inaccurately or improperly' listed patents; Elliott builds stake in BioMarin

The agency notified 10 companies that listings for dozens of patents on such medicines as asthma inhalers and epinephrine autoinjectors are being ...

24. Microsoft patents AI therapist that can offer emotional care - MSPoweruser

Microsoft patents AI therapist that can offer emotional care ... AI therapist may not be everyone's cup of tea, but in Microsoft's latest patent filing ...

25. FTC challenges over 100 patents as improperly listed in the FDA's Orange Book

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has challenged more than 100 patents held by manufacturers of brand-name asthma inhalers, ...

26. WPI's Tech Commercialization Efforts Grow Under Todd Keiller's LeadershipWPI Tech ...

When Todd Keiller arrived at WPI in 2012 to lead the office that patents and licenses researchers' inventions, the university had no active ...

27. FTC Challenges Over 100 Brand-Name Meds' Patents For Inaccuracies - KFF Health News

... patents on brand-name medicines that were improperly or inaccurately listed by some of the world's biggest drug companies in a key government registry ...

28. ENDRA Life Sciences Achieves Intellectual Property Milestone with Issuance of Three New Patents

The following three patents were issued: U.S. Patent No. 11806113, titled “Thermoacoustic Probe,” relates to a novel thermoacoustic probe with an ...

29. Delhi High Court clears up legislative ambiguity on divisional applications - IAM

The division bench's opinion in Syngenta clarifies the language of Section 16(1) of the Patents Act and offers much-needed clarity when it comes ...

30. Pro Tem Deposits- An Emerging Trend In The Indian Standard Essential Patents Diaspora

... patents, which they believe are representative of their entire portfolio. ... patents on Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) rates, it was ...

31. Nintendo president denies rumored Gamescom 'Switch 2' secret dev showcases

President Shuntaro Furukawa also dismissed recently discovered patents suggesting a splitting handheld console.

32. FTC Issues Orange Book Warnings on Over 100 Drug Patents - Public Citizen

– Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) challenged more than 100 patents held by manufacturers, including brand-name asthma inhalers ...

33. FTC Takes Up the Battle Against Improper Orange Book Patent Listings - JD Supra

... patents through Paragraph IV patent litigation. In its September policy statement, the FTC declared that it viewed the improper listing of patents ...

34. e-con Systems adds two new US patents to imaging portfolio

e-con Systems adds two new US patents to imaging portfolio · Patent 1 - 'System and method for obtaining optimal focus of an image capturing device'.

35. AstraZeneca, GSK, Teva All On FTC's Notice Due To "Improperly Listed" Patents

FTC Chair Lina Khan expressed, “Wrongfully listed Orange Book patents by pharma companies can raise drug prices for Americans, harm fair competition, ...

36. Nike Sues New Balance, Skechers Over Flyknit Technology - Front Office Sports

Nike alleges that the companies infringed on patents relating to its Flyknit sneaker technology. · Nike has previously sued Adidas, Puma, and Lululemon ...

37. FTC challenges patents held by nine big drugmakers, citing unfair competition

The Federal Trade Commission is challenging patents for 17 drugs marketed by Abbvie, AstraZeneca, GSK and other pharmaceutical companies, claiming ...

38. Govt welcomes J&J's decision to lift patents on TB drug - SABC News

The National Health Department has welcomed the announcement by Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson to lift patents on the life drug ...

39. Stratus® Medical adds fifth U.S. patent and two Canadian patents to its 29-patent global IP ...

11,806,070) and first two Canadian patents (Canadian Patent Nos. 2,778,997 and 2,799,505) for the NIMBUS® Electrosurgical RF Multitined Expandable ...

40. Federal Trade Commission Issues Notice Letters Regarding Allegedly Improper Orange ...

... patents that the FTC contends are improperly listed in the Orange Book, the FDA's Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations.

41. Nike Sues Skechers, New Balance For Flyknit Patent Infringement - Complex

The documents name dozens of Skechers models that Nike says infringe on its patents, specifically highlighting the below examples. Image via US ...

42. Amazon must pay $46.7 mln in voice-assistant patent case, US jury says | Reuters

... patents related to speech recognition and natural language processing. The jury determined that Amazon infringed patents belonging to VB Assets ...

43. Spencer Fane Team Presents at Firm-Sponsored Advanced Patent Law Institute

... patents. The following day, DJ led the presentation Strategic Advantages and Disadvantages of Post Grant Review. This session discussed the unique ...

44. A textiles case is one of the first in the new Unified Patent Court - Lexology

... Patents in a number of European Union countries (although for now, it remains in the patentee's power to opt “classical” European Patents out of ...

45. Mortgage rates are on their way down - Marketplace.org

The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 7.6 percent; Regulators want to supervise digital payments; FTC challenging medical patents ...

46. Indo-Asian News Service-STRATUS® MEDICAL ADDS FIFTH U.S. PATENT AND TWO ...

Stratus® Medical adds fifth U.S. patent and two Canadian patents to its 29-patent global IP portfolio for the NIMBUS® Electrosurgical RF Multitined ...

47. Patented: 7-Elevens' Tool for Generating a Virtual Store and More North Texas Inventive Activity

166 patents granted. Ranked No. 11 in patent production out of 250 metros. NO. OF PATENTS BY CLASSIFICATION. A: HUMAN NECESSITIES 12

48. Amazon Hit With $47M Verdict On Voice Patents In Del. - Law360 UK

A Delaware federal jury found Wednesday that Amazon willfully infringed four patents owned by VoiceBox on voice software technology, ...