Patent News for Friday 8th May 2026

1. Nintendo lost $40M on litigation between April 2025 and March 2026 - games fray

Context: Since September 2024, Nintendo has been suing Palworld maker Pocketpair over three Japanese patents. It has lately been quiet around that ...

2. Battery recycling patents surge sevenfold, study shows - IO

Battery recycling patents surge sevenfold, study shows ... A joint EPO-IEA study reveals a massive spike in battery reuse innovations, driven by Asian ...

3. Nxera Files Patent Infringement Action in Relation to its miniG Platform Technology

... patents EP 3 408 286 B1 and GB 2 558 968 B relating to its proprietary miniG technology. miniG is an integral part of Nxera's NxWave™ GPCR-focused ...

4. Sony Patents AI System That Automatically Turns Gameplay Into Shareable Highlights

Sony Patents AI System That Automatically Turns Gameplay Into Shareable Highlights ... These days, it's normal for gamers to capture footage of their ...

5. Case: Patents/Obviousness (Fed. Cir.) - Bloomberg Law News

Case: Patents/Obviousness (Fed. Cir.) May 8, 2026, 8:09 AM PDT. The Federal Circuit affirmed the decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that ...

6. Case: Patents/Obviousness (P.T.A.B.) - Bloomberg Law News

Case: Patents/Obviousness (P.T.A.B.). May 8, 2026, 7:33 AM PDT. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board determined that challenged claims of iChats LLC's ...

7. Illumina Patent Lawsuit Targets BillionToOne Prenatal Tests (1) - Bloomberg Law News

Illumina Inc. sued rival DNA sequencing company BillionToOne Inc. for allegedly infringing three of its patents related to noninvasive prenatal ...

8. Audi patents near-instant S tronic shift with overlapping clutches - SpeedMe

Audi files a patent for an S tronic gearbox that begins engaging the next clutch before the previous one fully releases, almost erasing the shift ...

9. Protection of NHS confidential information (Patents Court) | Practical Law - Westlaw Today

In Dr Reddy's Laboratories (UK Ltd) and others v Warner-Lambert Company LLC and another [2022] EWHC 1856 (Ch), the Patents Court ruled on issues ...

10. ITC GaN fight spotlights AI Chip Patents - AI CERTs News

Infineon-Innoscience battle over AI Chip Patents heads toward final ITC ruling, shaping GaN technology supply chains and import policy decisions.

11. SLC Digital patents multi-signal fingerprint biometric sensor array for smart cards

SLC Digital patents multi-signal fingerprint biometric sensor array for smart cards ... Multifactor authentication and multi-modal biometrics are both ...

12. Treeline Biosciences patents new RAS inhibitors | BioWorld

Treeline Biosciences patents new RAS inhibitors ... Treeline Biosciences Inc. has disclosed macrocyclic compounds acting as RAS inhibitors that are ...

13. Hangzhou Bio Sincerity Pharma-Tech identifies new exportin-1 receptor antagonists

KU Leuven patents new exportin-1 receptor antagonists. Popular Stories. Today's news in brief · BioWorld. BioWorld briefs for May 7, 2026. News in ...

14. Huawei sues RTL Group in streaming patent dispute - Broadband TV News

A number of Avanci licensors are also pursuing litigation against Disney over video streaming patents in Europe and the United States. Disney was ...

15. U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) Rules in Favor of Infineon and Orders Import and ...

In a parallel dispute in Germany, Infineon is asserting infringement of three patents and one utility model in the Munich District Court I ( ...

16. Protecting innovation in a borderless pharma economy: The reality of globalized pharma innovation

Patents covering the compound, formulation, method of use, and manufacturing processes; Trade secrets protecting manufacturing know-how and ...

17. The quest for Singapore's technological future | EurekAlert!

Prof Yeo's semiconductor inventions, comprising more than 330 US patents, describe structures and methods for making transistors with improved ...

18. 10x Genomics Sues Element Biosciences for Patent Infringement - GenomeWeb

10x alleges that Element's Aviti24 multiomic analysis platform infringes several of its spatial technology patents licensed from Harvard ...

19. Patent Case Summaries | Week Ending May 1, 2026 | Alston & Bird - JDSupra

The case eventually narrowed to four patents, and the district court granted summary judgment of patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 for all ...

20. Teva v. Lilly: Conflicting Positions at PTAB and District Court Sink Patent Challenge

... patents were headache patents survived, but affirmed that the antibody patents were unpatentable as obvious under § 103, but the headache patents were ...

21. HP prevails in Munich in toner cartridge dispute against Ninestar - JUVE Patent

They all sell printer cartridges on platforms such as Amazon. According to HP, these cartridges infringe HP's patents. After the court imposed a sales ...

22. Fed. Circ. Judges Stuck On Drug Efficacy's Role In Patents - Law360

A Federal Circuit panel struggled Thursday to pin down where the line is between patent enablement on cancer drug patents and U.S. Food and Drug ...

23. Bloomberg, RPX Want Ramey's Defamation Suit Tossed - Law360 Pulse

Bloomberg Law, Unified Patents and RPX hit back at patent attorney Bill Ramey's defamation suit accusing them of a "coordinated campaign" to sink ...

24. Former Ford Supplier Appeals EDMI Patent Eligibility Dismissal - Mondaq

The dismissal was based on the EDMI's ruling that FMReps' patents are ineligible software patents. Background. Ford traditionally performed its ...

25. Netlist Stock: The Next 10-Bagger? - The Globe and Mail

Netlist's legal victories can translate into long-term licensing agreements for patents that have become the backbone of the AI boom. The company ...

26. FUPRE drives innovation, expansion with patents, solar projects, reforms - Vanguard News

The Vice-Chancellor disclosed that the university recorded 21 patents and invention disclosures across robotics, automation, renewable energy, smart ...

27. Buy Rating of FatPipe Inc. (NASDAQ:FATN), at $8.00 Price Target Reiterated by Jason ...

SALT LAKE CITY, UT / ACCESS Newswire / May 7, 2026 / FatPipe, Inc., a multiple patents holder and pioneer in secure software-defined wide area ...

28. Wind power patents: Siemens Gamesa | CSSC| Nordex | Vestas | Windpower Monthly

The following patents were processed in the period 1-7 May. Asia Pacific. Siemens Gamesa filed a patent application at the State Intellectual ...

29. Federal Circuit Provides Path to Written Description and Enablement for Patents Related to ...

In analogizing the present case to its precedent, the court noted that although the Headache Patents disclose just one humanized anti-CGRP antagonist ...

30. Seed Saving | Food Sovereignty | Forgotten Foods Driscoll's Grows Zero Berries - YouTube

... patents. #ForgottenFoods #FoodSovereignty #PlantPatents #SeedSaving #FoodFreedom Food Sovereignty Seed Saving Plant Patents Forgotten Foods ...

31. Funding for Domestic and International Intellectual Property Protection Activities (Hungary)

Support industrial property rights registration (patents, trademarks, designs); Improve intellectual property management systems; Promote ...