Patent News for Wednesday 6th October 2021

49 new stories

Oct 06th 2021

1. Fed. Circ. Upends St. Jude's PTAB Win In Heart Valve IP Row - Law360

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"The claims and written descriptions in the two patents are the same in all relevant respects," U.S. Circuit Judge Kathleen O'Malley wrote for the panel ...

2. US continues to chart its own course on standard essential patents | White & Case LLP - JDSupra

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Taiwanese businesses should watch for continued assertions on 5G, IoT. The number of disputes involving standard essential patents (SEPs) is increasing, ...

3. Hackers for Freedom | Storyteller - TRT World

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Almost every sector of activity today depends on computer codes that are protected by patents from which large firms collect income.

4. How to Protect and Promote Your Culture – Patents - WIPO

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How to Protect and Promote Your Culture – Patents. Meeting code, WIPO/WEBINAR/GRTKF/2021/6. Date and venue, October 7, 2021 Virtual (English)

5. NBA 2K, Grand Theft Auto Beat Back Appeal of Infringement Suit - Sportico.com

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... company's patents for broadcast channels used in online communities. ... gamers to play NBA 2K and GTA in ways that infringe Acceleration Bay's patents.

6. Sci-Hub: Journals Must Stop Exploiting Research for Profits - The Wire Science

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Expressed otherwise, India would award patents not to individual drugs but to the process whereby the drug was manufactured. This allowed Indian drug companies ...

7. Sightline Payments Claims Everi Infringed on Cashless Gaming Patents - Casino.org

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Sightline Says Patents Date Back to 2014. In the lawsuit, Sightline claims Everi's product “relies on systems and methods that are capable of administration of ...

8. 'IUST Has Filed 28 Patents' | Kashmir Life

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'IUST Has Filed 28 Patents' ... KASHMIR LIFE (KL): When will offline classes start? PROF SHAKIL AHMAD ROMSHOO (SAR): The desire of students to return to campus ...

9. Human rights organisations calls for COVID-19 vaccine patents to be waived - ABC News

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Australia has joined a group of countries pushing for the patent protections for COVID-19 vaccines to be waived. Joel McKay from Amnesty International ...

10. Big Pharma abuses drug patents to prop up prices | Opinion | coloradopolitics.com

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By stockpiling patents, manufacturers of brand name prescription drugs can extend their monopolies and keep cheaper generic and biosimilar drugs out of the ...

11. Year in review: notable 2020 Patent Cases in Spain - Lexology

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Valeo claimed infringement of two of its illumination device patents against Alkar. In response, Alkar counterclaimed for revocation of the patents in the ...

12. What to watch out for in the SEP landscape - IAM Media

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Figure 2: Number of declared patents. IPlytics Platform, 2021. SEPs holders can now be found across a diverse range of industries. This is because SEPs today ...

13. Polish Industrial Property Law looks set to undergo a revolutionary makeover - IAM Media

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With regard to patents, the legislation intends to introduce a preliminary patent application. However, the information available does not outline what this ...

14. Unilin Successfully Defends Laminate Waterproofing Patents in Europe - Floor Daily

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... in the U.S. The '969 Patent is complementary to the other Unilin patents that protect several more specific edge-treating agents and production methods.

15. The R&D Dept.: Local patents for 10.6.21 - Richmond BizSense

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Local patents for 10.6.21. Richmond BizSense October 6, 2021 0. Maximizing of energy delivery system compatibility with voltage optimization. Patent No.

16. Robin.io granted nine new patents in network service pipeline deployment and cloud-native ...

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The new patents bring the company's IP portfolio to a total of 75 across its product portfolios, which include Robin Cloud Native Platform (CNP), ...

17. How Big Pharma appropriates knowledge and profits in a time of Coronavirus - CADTM

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It also patents seeds that have been developed by peasants through selection throughout the centuries. For instance the agribusiness company Del Monte patented ...

18. Smart Production Crossover Takes After Concept #1 In Design Patents - InsideEVs

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Patents filed with the EUIPO show that Smart's first crossover borrows a lot from the concept. Smart electric SUV patent sketches filed with the EUIPO 5.

19. Moderna Wants Fed. Cir. Help to Avoid Covid Vaccine Patent Suits - Bloomberg Law

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The patents cover lipid nanoparticles—tiny balls of fat that protect genetic material as it travels through the body to enter specific cells to deliver drugs.

20. SharkNinja Scores More Wins in Patent Dispute With iRobot | National Business | joplinglobe.com

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These two patents are part of a lawsuit filed by iRobot in October 2019 in federal court alleging that SharkNinja's IQ Robot robotic vacuum infringed six iRobot ...

21. Canada lacks 'political will' to waive COVID-19 vaccine patents, Bolivian minister says - Global News

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“I don't think we've even moved the needle in wanting to waive patents,” he said. According to both Murthy and Gold, some of the arguments to uphold patents, ...

22. SharkNinja Scores More Wins in Patent Dispute With iRobot - Citizen Tribune

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These rulings leave only two patents remaining in that lawsuit, which is currently stayed. Decisions on the validity of those two patents are expected later ...

23. The bioprocess controllers and automation systems market is projected to be grow at an ...

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More than 3,500 patents have been filed / published related to the ... to 70% of these were patent applications, while the remaining were granted patents.

24. Disentangling the problem of patent thickets - IAM Media

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Though political controversies about life sciences patents have largely centred on covid-19 vaccines over the past 18 months, recent years have seen growing ...

25. Acasti Pharma Awarded Composition-of-Matter Patents for GTX-101 in Europe, China and ...

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We believe these granted composition of matter patents further support the commercial potential of GTX-101 and GTX-102. Both drug candidates have already ...

26. Valqari Secures Position as Drone Delivery Industry Leader with New U.S. Patent - WAGM

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Valqari offers the sole drone delivery solution to be issued utility patents in 16 countries and territories including the U.S., the U.K., Germany, China, Hong ...

27. Patent approval for AW-Energy Oy wave technology

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This brings the total number of approved patents held by the company to 70. Advertisement. The patent provides AW-Energy with broad IP protection of its latest ...

28. RedHill Biopharma's Talicia® added to Medi-Cal Contract Drug List with No Prior ... - Yahoo Finance

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... by U.S. patents which extend patent protection until 2034 with additional patents and applications pending and granted in various territories worldwide.

29. Extra-territorial reach of patents granted in the United States of America - Lexology

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"Lexology is a quick and useful indicator of developments in the legal sphere. It alerts me to changes taking place in the legal environment in South Africa ...

30. Legislation: Restoring the America Invents Act | Jones Day - JDSupra

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According to Leahy, the bill supplementing the AIA would reinforce high-quality patents and hamper the ability of non-practicing entities to abuse low-quality ...

31. Springworks seeks cancer win as a prelude to something bigger | Evaluate

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Springworks cites use patents to 2039 but, barring patent extensions, should nirogacestat be approved it will surely be launched on the strength of seven years' ...

32. Lobbyist for inventors says America Invents Act's trial and appeal board 'kills' patents ...

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Lobbyist for inventors says America Invents Act's trial and appeal board 'kills' patents. Tom Temin@tteminWFED. October 6, 2021 1:51 pm. < a min read.

33. Case: Patents/Summary Judgment (Fed. Cir.) - Bloomberg Law

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The patents cover networks that provide broadcast channels where participating computers are connected and organized via a virtual network, and methods for ...

34. Motions to Amend: PTO Pilot Program Extended - Patents: Post-Grant Podcast - JD Supra

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Motions to Amend: PTO Pilot Program Extended - Patents: Post-Grant Podcast ... Please join Troutman Pepper's Intellectual Property and Health Sciences practice ...

35. ALASTIN Skincare® Announces Issuance Of Fifth And Sixth U.S. Patent Incorporating ... - KFYR

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These new patents are directed to methods for the use of topical compositions of TransFORM Body Treatment with TriHex Technology® to improve skin laxity, ...

36. Acasti Pharma Awarded Composition-of-Matter Patents for - GlobeNewswire

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The granted patents are valid until 2036. In addition, the Japanese Patent Office has granted a composition of matter patent for GTX-102, a novel, easy-to-use ...

37. Acasti Pharma (ACST) Awarded Composition-of-Matter Patents for GTX-101 in ... - StreetInsider

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Acasti Pharma (ACST) Awarded Composition-of-Matter Patents for GTX-101 in Europe, China and Mexico and for GTX-102 in Japan. October 6, 2021 8:33 AM. Acasti ...

38. Acasti Pharma Awarded Composition-of-Matter Patents for GTX-101 in Europe, China and ...

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Patents strengthen Acasti's IP portfolio and provide protection through 2036 and 2037, respectively. LAVAL, Québec, Oct. 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acasti ...

39. Report: Tesla is alleging theft of battery trade secrets by Rivian

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Take our patents, please! That's what inventor and automaker Elon Musk is saying today, as the Tesla Motors (TSLA) CEO said in a blog post that his company “ ...

40. Microbot Medical gains 8% on new U.S. patents for Liberty Robotic System - Seeking Alpha

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Globally, the Company now has 45 patents issued/allowed and 24 pending patent applications. Now Read: Boston Scientific agrees to acquire Baylis Medical Company ...

41. Terminal Patent Invalidity Not Tied To Patent-in-Suit's Expiration - National Law Review

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Invalidity of Terminal Patents Not Tied to Disclaimed Patent-in-Suit's Expiration. Wednesday, October 6, 2021. In an interesting recent case of first impression ...

42. PTAB Revision Bill Offers US Makers Much-Needed Protection - Law360

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Allowing Huawei to leverage invalid patents against American technology companies is not a path to winning the race to 5G cellular communications. It is a path ...

43. Case: Patents/Attorney Misconduct (D. Iowa) - Bloomberg Law

Domain: news.bloomberglaw.com | Companies: Deere

... attorney in Deere & Co. and John Deere Shared Services Inc.'s action for infringement of its patents for high-speed agricultural planting technology.

44. Case: Trade Secrets & Patents/Summary Judgment (N.D. Ohio) - Bloomberg Law

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Case: Trade Secrets & Patents/Summary Judgment (N.D. Ohio). Oct. 6, 2021, 1:05 PM. A federal district court in Ohio denied Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

45. Synthego Preemptively Sues Agilent Technologies to Ward Off CRISPR Patent Infringement ...

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NEW YORK – Gene editing firm Synthego has sued Agilent Technologies in US federal court after Agilent allegedly tried to get the firm to license patents ...

46. Alvotech Agrees to 1-Year Delay in Marketing of Adalimumab Biosimilar

Domain: centerforbiosimilars.com | Companies: AbbVie

The court has also whittled down the number of adalimumab patents that will be litigated in this round to 10, vs the 62 that AbbVie asserted and the 4 that ...

47. Ericsson tells court Apple's not playing fair in 5G patent negotiations | FierceWireless

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It also asserts that Apple is admittingly trying to devalue Ericsson's essential patents related to 5G so it can pay less to use them in products.

48. Protecting Your Intellectual Property: Part II | Butler Snow LLP - JDSupra

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Maintenance & Renewal Filings: Patents, Trademarks & Other IP. Another important consideration in the post registration process is navigating maintenance and ...

49. Distinguished Leader: Greg Arovas | New York Law Journal

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Many of the cases involved balancing conflicting themes, such as attacking and defending patents and invention stories for technology adopted in the same ...