Patent News for Thursday 9th September 2021

1. Fed. Circ. Backs Patent Review Despite Arbitration Agreement - Law360

Judges Kathleen O'Malley, Jimmie V. Reyna and Raymond T. Chen sat on the panel for the Federal Circuit. The patents-in-suit are U.S. Patent Nos.

2. OPPO files 5G patent infringement suits against Nokia in China and Europe - Scandasia

Gizmochina writes that the patents involved in the lawsuit are all 5G standard essential patents and that OPPOs lawsuits against Nokia are retaliation to ...

3. Can a Robot Invent? The Fight Around AI and Patents Explained - Bloomberg Law

The Fight Around AI and Patents Explained. By Matthew Bultman. Sept. 9, 2021, 2:01 AM. Patent offices and courts around the world are being asked to tackle ...

4. PsiloThera, Inc. a Leader in Psychedelic Healthcare Innovation Announces the Filing of U. S. ...

... proudly announces the Filing of U. S. Patents Protecting Its Proprietary Psychedelic Therapeutic Process and Tele-Mental Health & Microdosing Platform.

5. CommScope (COMM) Wins Appeal Affirming Injunction and $6 Million in Damages Against ...

The ruling affirms a lower court judgment that Dali Wireless (“Dali”) willfully infringed five CommScope patents, maintaining the injunction and $6 million ...

6. Possible upcoming amendments to Singapore Patents Act and Patents Rules - what you ...

It is proposed that the Patents Act and Patents Rules be amended to specify that when a patent specification discloses sequence(s), the furnishing ...

7. GT Biopharma Announces Issuance of Two New Patents Covering TriKE® Platform Technologies

These two patents cover the Company's pipeline of clinical and non-clinical product candidates consisting of tri-specific killer engagers, ...

8. What is IP leadership? - IAM Media

It almost goes without saying, but IP leaders need to execute the very highest standard of substantive work in patents, trade secrets and any other areas ...

9. AI As A Patent Inventor – An Update From South Africa And Australia | MoFo Tech - JDSupra

In Thaler v Commissioner of Patents [2021] FCA 879, the Australian court reasoned that the ordinary meaning of “inventor” does not exclude non-humans.

10. Government targets, end-of-year patenting rush and innovative performance in China - Nature

The share of domestic Chinese patents with a related USPTO patent has since 2000 been smaller, and increased at a much slower pace, than the ...

11. Three Apple Patents published today cover 3D Object Scanning and Running Multiple Apps ...

Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a series of three patent applications from Apple that relate to next-gen AR/VR/MR and Extended ...

12. Criminals Target PayPal: Will PayPal Patents Stem the Tide? - - Payments Journal

The PayPal book of patents stood out for the large number that were specific to authentication, account protection, and even detecting abusive ...

13. Northwestern University settles robot patent claims against Mitsubishi - Chicago Daily Law Bulletin

Northwestern accused Mitsubishi of infringing patents for industrial collaborative robots, otherwise known as “cobots,” that can safely interact ...

14. COVAX Cuts 2021 Vaccine Forecast; Australia Joins Call for Waiver on Vaccine Patents

COVAX Cuts 2021 Vaccine Forecast; Australia Joins Call for Waiver on Vaccine Patents. HeadlineSep 09, 2021. On Wednesday, U.N. officials said the ...

15. InterDigital (IDCC) Partners Seiko Solutions, Inks Licensing Deal | Nasdaq

These phones will be equipped with InterDigital's crucial patents related to 3G, 4G, and 5G cellular wireless technology.

16. Biologics patent thicketing problem getting worse, says Fresenius' IP chief - IAM Media

Not all secondary patents are low quality, Moodie stresses: “However, a biosimilar producer cannot economically use IPRs or PGRs to clear a thicket that ...

17. Prison Company Patents VR to Give Inmates Brief Taste of Freedom - VICE

Prison contracting giant Global Tel Link Corporation (GTL), which handles a huge chunk of the prison communications industry, has obtained a patent for a ...

18. Boehringer Ingelheim and Twist Bioscience Enter Therapeutic Antibody Discovery Collaboration

... risks of third party claims alleging infringement of patents and proprietary rights or seeking to invalidate Twist Bioscience's patents or proprietary ...

19. CommScope Wins Appeal Affirming Injunction and $6 Million in Damages Against Dali ...

The ruling affirms a lower court judgment that Dali Wireless (“Dali”) willfully infringed five CommScope patents, maintaining the injunction and ...

20. Strength of Patent Protection Varies by Patent Type - Center for Biosimilars®

In the portfolio of patents amassed by biologics originator companies, the “vast majority of these are manufacturing patents, about 75% of them,” ...

21. Dr. S. K. Khijwania | Patents - IIT Guwahati

Sunil Khijwania is Professor at IIT Guwahati. He has been working on various applications of optical fiber and based devices such as Fiber Bragg ...

22. Case: Patents/Procedure (N.D. Cal.) - Bloomberg Law

Case: Patents/Procedure (N.D. Cal.) Sept. 9, 2021, 10:18 AM. A federal district court in California granted Sonos Inc.'s motion for leave to amend ...

23. Blue Biofuels Files Two New Patents on the Production of Lignin and Nanocellulose from its CTS

(PINK: BIOF). Blue Biofuels, Inc. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it filed two more patents that follow on the granted patent and three ...

24. Two pharma giants claim Irish-based Teva breached its patents

The actions related to alleged breaches by Teva of patents of formulations of products used to treat thromboembolic, or blood clot, disorders.

25. Blue Biofuels Files Two New Patents on the Production of Lignin and Nanocellulose from its ...

(PINK: BIOF). Blue Biofuels, Inc. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it filed two more patents that follow on the granted patent and ...

26. Top Recipients of Patents in Maryland - Baltimore Business Journal

Ranked by Patents obtained 2020. Locally Researched by: Maria Sieron, Baltimore Business Journal Sep 09, 2021, 11:48am EDT.

27. Biden Looks to Slash Drug Prices By Going After Big Pharma's Monopolies - Newsweek

... the practice of extending pharmaceutical patents which has resulted in 78 ... of new drug patents being tied to already existing medications.

28. Ownership of Inventions By Former Employers: Lessons after Bio-Rad v. ITC - National Law Review

Notably, one aspect of the technology claimed in these patents—“gel beads”—was (undisputedly) not conceived until January 2013. 10X Genomics later ...

29. There's More to Being an Inventor than Butterscotch Ripple - JD Supra

Commissioner of Patents, VID 108 of 2021, that the same AI invention qualified for patent protection). The EU and the U.S., however, ...

30. CommScope touts court win against Dali Wireless | Light Reading

As to Dali's two patents, CommScope's appeal was successful as to '521 patent asserted against CommScope's Flexwave Prism product. The Federal Circuit ...

31. Court of Appeals confirms CommScope patent victory over Dali Wireless - Telecompaper

CommScope initiated its patent infringement suit against Dali in 2016. CommScope enforced five digital distributed antenna system (DAS) patents ...

32. Northwestern University Settles Robot Patent Claims Against Mitsubishi - Lawyer Monthly

Northwestern University had accused Mitsubishi of infringing patents related to collaborative robots that can safely interact with humans in a ...

33. Tesla Patents Laser Windshield Whipers | Torque News

Tesla Patents Laser Windshield Whipers. We have news of Tesla patenting laser windshield wipers, according to sources familiar with the matter.

34. Fed. Court Seeks French Help With Docs In Telecom IP Cases - Law360

... TQ Delta has filed against multiple telecommunications companies over patents related to television and broadband data services technology.

35. Now More Than Ever, Automakers Must Protect Trade Secrets - Law360

... Ford prevailed at trial on a counterclaim that the plaintiff's patents were crafted on confidential technical documentation obtained from a ...

36. Bascom Cannot Save Your Claims if Your Own Patent Says You Used Known Technology - JD Supra

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court determination that claims of several patents were patent ineligible ...