Yesterday's Top Patent News

1. Federal court reopens question of who owns key CRISPR patents - STAT News

Appeals court reopens the question of who owns patents for groundbreaking CRISPR discovery. Ruling in key gene-editing case could have broader ...

2. Appeals court reignites CRISPR discovery row, raising questions about gene-editing biotech patents

Appeals court reignites CRISPR discovery row, raising questions about gene-editing biotech patents. By Nick Paul Taylor May 13, 2025 8:00am. CRISPR ...

3. KfW Research: just under 400000 small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany possess ...

... patents. Nine per cent of businesses have trademark rights, 3 per cent have patents; Businesses with own research and development activities and ...

4. As AI Patents Surge, USPTO Issues New Guidance - Lexology

As AI Patents Surge, USPTO Issues New Guidance ... Artificial Intelligence (AI) in general, and generative AI (GAI) – such as ChatGPT- in particular, ...

5. European Patent Office to help secure Europe's competitive edge - Euractiv

Patents are often perceived as too expensive or too complex. This helps explain why, although SMEs, research centres, and universities make up the ...

6. The CAFC Holds That IPR Estoppel Does Not Shield Patentees From System Prior Art

... patents related to USB thumb drives—U.S. Patent Nos. 9,059,969 and 9,774,703 (collectively, “asserted patents”)—invalid as anticipated and ...

7. Bioenergy Life Science bags two US patents for metabolic health nutraceutical, RiboActiv

The patents cover the use of D-Ribose as a regulator of AMPk, PGC-1a and citrate synthase levels, as well as the company's method for enhancing ...

8. Shin Hyun-eok, a 59-year-old specialized examiner at the Korean Intellectual Property Office ...

They are masters of patents called "invention kings" who swept various technology and patent awards while in office. Even though they met for the ...

9. A US court just put ownership of CRISPR back in play - MIT Technology Review

The CRISPR patents are back in play. On Monday, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle ...

10. The X Corp (Formerly Twitter) Patent Infringement Drama - Mondaq

In a legal saga that has spanned nearly a decade, X Corp. (formerly Twitter) finds itself in a courtroom battle over video technology patents with ...

11. Baidu Patents AI System to Translate Animal Sounds - Evertiq

Baidu Patents AI System to Translate Animal Sounds. The owner of China's largest search engine has filed a patent to convert animal vocalization ...

12. Carma's No Relaxing Thought, For Uber - Patent - United States - Mondaq

As described in the complaint, the asserted patents generally relate to various aspects of ridesharing and/or delivery systems, including driver/user ...

13. Federal Circuit Defines Scope of IPR Estoppel | Insights | Vinson & Elkins LLP

... patents and printed publications on which invalidity arguments are based [in IPRs], and that the supporting affidavits, declarations, and the like ...

14. PocketPair Provides Post on Permutations to Palworld based on Pokémon Patents

PocketPair Provides Post on Permutations to Palworld based on Pokémon Patents. Andrew Velzen · McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP. + Follow ...

15. Testing the limits of the public health exception for patents in India - Lexology

... Patents Act, 1970, can be used to reject an application for a patent. The Calcutta High Court's recent judgment in ITC Limited vs. The Controller ...

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

The court affirmed the decision of a district court dismissing a complaint alleging that FARO Technologies Inc. infringed patents relating to ...

17. Apple won 64 patents today covering a MacBook with an integrated Apple Pencil, a new ...

Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 64 newly granted utility patents for Apple Inc. In this particular ...

18. Hypha Labs Files Multiple Additional Patents for its Ground Brea - GuruFocus

Hypha Labs (OTCQB:FUNI) files three new patents with the USPTO for innovative mushroom cultivation technology. Patents focus on AI-driven systems ...

19. Hypha Labs Files Multiple Additional Patents for its Ground Breaking Mushroom Accelerator

The three additional patents that have been filed are as follows: Mushroom Accelerator System for Mycelium Cultivation - This patent focuses on a ...

20. Hypha Labs Files Multiple Additional Patents for its Ground Breaking Mushroom Accelerator

Hypha Labs (OTCQB:FUNI), a functional mushroom sciences company, has filed three new patents with the USPTO to protect its mushroom cultivation ...

21. Tigo Energy Resolves Multi-Year Patent Infringement Litigation With SMA - Business Wire

Tigo products, patents, and some of its licensees related to rapid shutdown technology can be viewed at the Tigo Virtual Patent Marking for Rapid ...

22. Reflect Scientific Secures Patents for Data Center Cooling with Cryogenic Innovation

Reflect Scientific Secures Patents for Data Center Cooling with Cryogenic Innovation. Provided by GlobeNewswire May 13, 2025 5:00am.

23. The Download: CRISPR in court, and the police's ban-skirting AI | MIT Technology Review

... patents on what many consider the defining biotechnology invention of the 21st century. The pair shared a 2020 Nobel Prize for developing the gene ...

24. Intellectual Property Law Insights, May 12, 2025 - Lexology

... patents to guard their valuable IP assets and technology. Why this shift in thinking? Much of the momentum of this shift is due in large part to ...

25. Reflect Scientific Secures Patents for Data Center Cooling with Cryogenic Innovation

Reflect Scientific Secures Patents for Data Center Cooling with Cryogenic Innovation. Rhea-AI Impact. (Moderate). Rhea-AI Sentiment. (Neutral). Tags.

26. 50 not out: Murgitroyd reflects on IP 'pioneer' role | Managing Intellectual Property

“We are seeing increased uptake of unitary patents, so we can provide clients with that strategic view depending on what route they want to go down [ ...

27. Should the EU grant patent protection to the coming generation of gene edited crops

Some stakeholders are worried that there will be a huge wave of patents rolling over the European market with NGTs . The assumption that every ...

28. Ferrari's First EV Could Supercharge Its Sales In The World's Biggest Market - Carscoops

Recent patents suggest the Elettrica might feature fake sounds and a virtual transmission. Ferrari's first electric vehicle isn't just a step ...

29. Federal Circuit Narrows IPR Estoppel in District Court Proceedings - Dentons

The court held that IPR estoppel only applies to invalidity challenges based on patents or printed publications under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102 or 103. It ...

30. Federal Circuit Patent Watch: Patents That Merely Claim Applying Machine Learning to a ...

Stark, J. Sage Products, LLC (“Sage”) challenged a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) decision finding two of Sage's patents unpatentable.

31. Virkkunen in USA; Metsola told to pressure von der Leyen on AI, patents, airport slot rules ...

Virkkunen in USA; Metsola told to pressure von der Leyen on AI, patents, airport slot rules; telecoms reform; e-commerce report. And EU-Japan ...

32. Canadian Intellectual Property Office “Next Generation Patents” update and status as of May ...

On July 17, 2024, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) launched a new electronic system and portal, MyCIPO Patents, as part of its ...

33. Blackberry successor sues Toast over infringement of Wi-Fi standard essential patents

... patents related to the Wi-Fi 802.11 standard. Malikie alleged that Toast has failed to respond to its attempts to license the patents under fair ...

34. Reflect Scientific Secures Patents for Data Center Cooling with Cryogenic Innovation - WRIC

Reflect Scientific Secures Patents for Data Center Cooling with Cryogenic Innovation · A compact, portable blast chiller that can reduce a room's ...

35. Tigo Energy Resolves Multi-Year Patent Infringement Litigation With SMA | Business Wire

... patents by SMA. Terms of the settlement will remain undisclosed. According to National Electric Code § 690.12, “Rapid Shutdown of PV Systems on ...

36. Federal Circuit Narrows IPR Estoppel Scope - The National Law Review

... patents or printed publications, opening the door to use patents and publications to provide evidence of what subject matter was “on sale” or “in ...

37. BD files patent infringement lawsuit against Baxter over infusion pump tech

BD's complaint singles out six specific patents: the “180,” “058,” “880,” “868,” “414,” and “703” patents. It alleges the “infringing manufacture ...

38. Federal Circuit: Patent Term Extension for Reissued Patents is Calculated Using the Original ...

The Federal Circuit concluded that, where both the original and reissued patents claimed a drug product under regulatory review, using the issue date ...

39. Federal Circuit Provides Guidance on Scope of IPR Estoppel - WilmerHale

The Federal Circuit in Ingenico Inc. v. IOENGINE, LLC ruled that IPR estoppel does not preclude prior art not based on patents or printed ...

40. Short and Sweet: I-Corps Teaches Professor to Abbreviate Presentations to Potential Customers

Issued Patents. General Resources. About ITC · FAQ · Template Agreements · Small Business Development Center. Close Menu. In This Section. Featured ...

41. Reflect Scientific Secures Patents for Data Center Cooling with Cryogenic Innovation

Reflect Scientific Secures Patents for Data Center Cooling with Cryogenic Innovation. Primary Logo. May 13, 2025, 8:00 AM ET. OREM, Utah, May 13 ...

42. Hanwha Semitec Files for Invalidation of Hanmi Semiconductor?s TC Bonder Patents - ????

... patents that Hanmi Semiconductor previously claimed were infringed upon. The patents are associated with TC Bonder equipment, which is essential ...

43. The Ideas Consultation Hour – Turning Research into Product Ideas - Berlin Institute of Health (BIH)

Do you have an innovative idea or questions concerning IP and patents? The Ideas Consultation Hour is a service offered by Charité BIH Innovation, ...