Patent News for Friday 9th July 2021

1. USPTO Opens Floodgates To Patent Eligibility Feedback

These rulings have been used to invalidate scores of patents, and the Federal Circuit has struggled to stay on the same page about interpreting it, ...

2. Ingenious innovators

Having got 12 patents, there is one more in the pipeline and a few others in the preparation stage”. Dr KS Nagla from Dr BR Ambedkar NIT with his ...

3. Stryker Cos. Will Pay $15M To End Medical Device Patent Suit

Conformis said it developed a large portfolio of patents and pending patent applications related to its iFit patient-specific implants and iJig patient- ...

4. Fed. Circ. Told Acting USPTO Chief Can't Implement Arthrex

Since President Joe Biden has not yet nominated a USPTO director, the agency is currently being led by its commissioner for patents, Drew Hirshfeld, ...

5. IP Forecast: Daiichi Sankyo Unit Takes Drug Rival To A Jury

"The inventors of the patents-in-suit will testify that they formed a definite and permanent idea of the claimed genuses in March 2005, long before the first ...

6. Uber Gets Fed. Circ. To Flip Albright Again After Samsung Win

The Federal Circuit had found that Ikorongo Technology's patent assignment to a subsidiary, Ikorongo Texas, which required the patents to be ...

7. Stryker Cos. Will Pay $15M To End Medical Device Patent Suit

patents, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing Wednesday. Conformis said in an 8-K form that on June 30 it reached a ...

8. Boston-Based DraftKings Faces Patent Infringement Lawsuit

DFS Contest and Sports Betting Operator DraftKings Accused of Patent Infringement; Engine Media alleges infringement of patents owned by its ...

9. Huawei patents a smartphone with under-display selfie camera

The official documents came with illustrations that were used by the folks over at LetsGoDigital to create renders of the phone. Huawei patents a ...

10. Amarin: Let's Revisit The M&A Discussion

A lower court ruling voiding Amarin's patents was upheld by a court of appeals and the US Supreme Court declined to take up the matter. · With one ...

11. Rivian patents another maneuverability trick enabled by quad-motor layout

The Rivian R1T electric pickup truck hasn't reached customers yet, but yet another potential new feature has leaked out. Rivian has filed a patent ...

12. Patent Filings Roundup: Second Mystery Entity Challenges $2.2 Billion VLSI/Fortress Patents; IP ...

K.Mizra NPE expands, targets ISPs: A set of patents of older non-practicing entity (NPE) vintage, but newer ownership/management, has moved on to ...

13. Longi reports US decision dismissing Hanwha patent claims

At the same time, invalid patents, and attempts to enforce such patents, negatively affect both the industry and the enterprizes involved. Accordingly, ...

14. Vietnam: Infringement of Patents, Industrial Designs, Layout Designs, Trade Names, Trade Secrets ...

Vietnam: Infringement of Patents, Industrial Designs, Layout Designs, Trade Names, Trade Secrets & Acts of Unfair Competition - Where to go? Blog ...

15. German constitutional court upholds EU unitary patent court

... of a unified framework for granting and enforcing patents in the European Union, finally clearing a roadblock that held up the reform for years.

16. China Tops World In AI Patents

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 9th Jul, 2021 ) :China ranks first in the world in the number of artificial intelligence (AI) patents, Xiao ...

17. Pills and PlayStations: Conniving for higher prices through product hopping

Patents establish government-sanctioned monopolies to allow pharmaceutical companies to recoup their investment in researching and developing ...

18. Nokia sues OPPO for patent infringement, OPPO calls it shocking

FOSS Patents claims that the company has filed 24 complaints in Germany, including eleven in Mannheim, seven in Munich, and six in Dusseldorf ...

19. Xiaomi patents new fast wireless charging tech for foldable smartphones

Xiaomi patents new fast wireless charging tech for foldable smartphones ... In recent years, fast charging technology in smartphones has had various ...

20. Do patents kill innovation? The US patent office is asking.

The US Patent Office is looking at the impact of patents on areas such as quantum computing, AI and networking. The United States Patent and ...

21. Take Care When Modifying the PTAB's Default Protective Order

Unified Patents, Paper 27, Attachment A. On May 18, 2021, Unified Patents filed its second motions for entry of protective order and for seal. Unified ...

22. Nokia sues China's Oppo over patents, 5G licenses

At 3,500 patent families, Nokia owns the world's largest number of standard essential patents for 5G, the research firm PA Consulting found in April.

23. MSF response to Roche's statement on access to tocilizumab

Roche has just announcedthat Roche and Chugai (joint holders of tocilizumab-related patents) will not be asserting any patents related to tocilizumab ...

24. USPTO patent eligibility study looks like groundwork for legislation

Explain if US eligibility doctrine has shifted how you license or purchase patents. Explain how US eligibility doctrine has shifted your litigation ...

25. Monthly compensation to kids who lost patents to Covid till age of 21: Vijay Rupani

Monthly compensation to kids who lost patents to Covid till age of 21: Vijay Rupani. Earlier, the monthly compensation under the scheme was made ...

26. Pendent Venue: What Is It, and Can You Still Rely on It?

In Omega Patents, LLC v. CalAmp Corp.,4 the plaintiff brought an action involving patent infringement claims for five different patents. The plaintiff ...

27. Germany: Top court greenlights EU's Unified Patent Court

It brings the prospect of unified patents for inventors Europe-wide, within the EU's existing single market, a step closer. Critics claimed that the Unified ...

28. Truck Talk No. 26: Labor pains edition

“For trucking, we have over 1,400 relevant patents in our portfolio, with over 700 of them issued in the U.S., putting us far ahead of any competitors in the ...

29. 3-D Printing Lawsuit Accuses Competitor of Copying Patented Technology

It has been awarded numerous patents for its innovative technology, including the patents at issue in this action.” The company alleges that Markforged “ ...

30. Balance of big data value unlocking and protection highlight amid Didi crisis; possible solutions ...

The report showed that patent applications started to rise abruptly in 2017, and there were nearly 5,000 privacy calculation patents by the end of April.

31. China's Patent Grants Accelerate By Over 50% in First Half of 2021

Utility model patents were up less at 30.3% versus the first half of 2020. The percentage of patents granted to foreign patentees dropped from 19.0% to ...

32. Dhaka CS bars media from talking to Covid patents, relatives

Dhaka CS bars media from talking to Covid patents, relatives ... Dhaka District Civil Surgeon Office has requested the journalists to refrain from taking ...

33. Meet The Judge: Delaware District Court's Colm F. Connolly

Unlike the judge he'd inherited the case from, Judge Connolly said the patents weren't invalid as obvious. Now-retired U.S. District Judge Gregory Sleet ...

34. Skilled in the Art: Some Patents and IPRs Follow a Familiar Script

For Patents and IPRs, Use the Copy Machine. There are some sincere forms of flattery going on in the IP world this week. Both patent owners and ...

35. Google's Transfer Bid Rejected in Patent Case

On August 11, 2020, Jenam Tech accused Google of knowingly infringing upon their patents known as “Methods, Systems, and Computer Program ...

36. Stemming from Penn College's coursework, a former student invents and patents a game which ...

Williamsport, Pa. - Pennsylvania College of Technology student Trey L. White practices the tools of innovation even in his down time. That it how the ...

37. Pokémon Go Prevails In Reality Tech IP Fight At Fed. Circ.

Law360 (July 9, 2021, 2:34 PM EDT) -- The Federal Circuit on Friday declined to revive patents on augmented reality technology that were asserted ...

38. Rising Star: Cooley's Marcelo Pomeranz

Patents mentioning cannabis date back to the 1800s, Pomeranz said. Patents surrounding cannabis picked up in the 1990s, when inventors developing ...

39. Week Ahead in Intellectual Property: July 12, 2021

... Pharmaceuticals proposed generics of its Vasostrict, a drug used to increase blood pressure in patients with vasodilatory shock, infringe its patents.

40. Of Viruses and Licenses: Lessons from COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Debates

Taken together, some of the op-eds are creating a strikingly new discourse about the relationship between patents and medical innovation. Rather ...

41. China tops world in AI patents: minister

China ranks first in the world in the number of artificial intelligence (AI) patents, Xiao Yaqing, minister of Industry and Information Technology, said on ...