Patent News for Wednesday 14th July 2021

1. Judge Tells Attys IP Testimony Is 'Dense,' But 'It's Your Case'

Meanwhile, defense counsel tried to cast doubt on whether Plexxikon's patents implicate Novartis' drugs by probing the witnesses on different ...

2. We Can Dance If We Want To, We Can Put Our Patents Online

With small-molecule drugs, patents have always been listed alongside drug information in the FDA's Orange Book, so generic-drug makers can see ...

3. EU Mulling Changes To Standard-Essential Patents Policy

Margrethe Vestager, the EU commissioner for competition, at the time emphasized the need for standard-essential patents to be governed by "stable, ...

4. Blackbird Technologies Settles Two More Patent Cases Concerning LED Technology

Blackbird Technologies, a company dedicated to helping independent inventors and small companies realize value from their patents, has settled two ...

5. Verizon and Huawei settle patent lawsuit mid-trial

This followed Reuters' report of Huawei demanding Verizon fork out licencing fees for over 230 of its patents. Verizon said it is happy with the settlement ...

6. Gilstrap Throws Out US Inventor's Fintiv Challenge

Instead, he said, the parties appeared to be taking aim at their broader disapproval of the PTAB's ability to invalidate patents. "It appears plain that ...

7. Sony Patents Tournament System Ahead of EVO Championship

Some of these patents are for relatively minor additions to the PlayStation experience, while others could change the face of gaming in more profound ...

8. LONGi has achieved several successes in patent dispute against Hanwha Q-Cells

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

9. Amazon patents trucks that unleash and direct fleets of delivery drones

As with most patents, there are plenty of variations on this general scenario – the primary vehicle could be a van, truck, car, etc, and either autonomous ...

10. Meghalaya To Apply For Bio Patents For Its Root Bridges Under Baubotanik,

Sangma informed that the Government is looking at bio patents for living root bridges in the state through a technology called Baubotanik. He also ...

11. Last Week in the Federal Circuit (July 5-9): What Happens When the Federal Circuit Looks to ...

TVnGO alleged that LGE's “Smart TVs” infringe their asserted patents. The district court issued a claim construction opinion concluding that two of the ...

12. Featurespace files two global patents for its fraud prevention technology

Featurespace has filed two global patents for its fraud prevention and anti-money laundering technology. The Cambridge Science Park company says ...

13. The R&D Dept.: Local patents for 7.14.21

Local patents for 7.14.21. Richmond BizSense July 14, 2021 0. System for coupling package displays to remote power source. Patent No. 11,056,915

14. India based Mphasis granted US patents for AI driven application

iNDICA NEWS BUREAU-. Bengaluru-based IT solutions provider Mphasis has announced that it was awarded a US patent for its AI-driven application ...

15. Maxell's latest deal shows the Japanese business is doubling down on its patent monetisation efforts

USPTO assignment records show that Maxell has added 50 US patents to its arsenal following a transaction with China's Hisense. Some of the ...

16. Foreign companies submit more patent applications in China

The rising patents applications in an indication that foreign enterprises are confident in China's business environment and they are willing to carry out ...

17. NMPA and CNIPA Jointly Issued Implementation Measures for the Early Resolution Mechanism for ...

The relevant drug patents covered by the early resolution mechanism of drug patent disputes include: API compound patents, pharmaceutical ...

18. New Patent for Know Labs Marks Latest Step Toward Commercial Launch of Bio-RFID

This new patent brings Know Labs portfolio to 23 issued and 34 pending patents, enhances the company's technological leadership position and ...

19. Nabati Foods Files Patents for Nabati Plant Eggz, a Plant-Based Liquid Egg Product

“These patents will further enable Nabati Foods to build its global brand and enter new markets to capitalize on the growth of the plant-based sector ...

20. Freedom-to-Operate (FTO) or Clearance search strategies for avoiding patent infringement

Many a times, the claims of potentially relevant patents are drafted in a way so that these can bypass search terms used by the searchers, hence such ...

21. Why patent pools are the right answer for a new era

Without a pool licence granting rights to use the thousands of patents necessary to practise a standard, implementers would face multiple inefficiencies, ...

22. IPValue Management Affiliate Acquires Rights to Mitsubishi Electric's Display Business Patent ...

Trivale's acquisition of substantially all MELCO display business unit patents allows it to provide a one-stop shop for licensees to one of the largest ...

23. Patent Filings Roundup: NPE Targets Cracker Barrel, Realtors; VMWare/Cirba Dispute Heads to ...

A surprising number of challenges against semiconductor-related patents being asserted by NPEs (most with litigation funding backing, such as by ...

24. Supreme Court Sets Limits for Assignor Estoppel

... the doctrine of assignor estoppel, requiring patent practitioners to reconsider assignment and other contractual provisions when transferring patents.

25. Arthrex could offer life sciences patents extra layer of protection

The Director could also assign her or himself, the Deputy Director, and the Commissioner of Patents to a panel. The availability of a formal rehearing by ...

26. Activists call on Merkel, Biden for jab patents' end

An advocacy group has called on German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Joe Biden to waive COVID-19 vaccine patents. The group ...

27. Tencent Patents Digital Will To Bequeath In-Game Items After Death

Tencent's latest patent solves a big problem of the digital age: what do we do with all our in-game stuff after we die? Tencent Patents Digital Will To ...

28. Johnson Controls Loses Appeal of Video-Surveillance Case Ruling

A Delaware federal judge was correct to rule that five patents owned by Johnson Controls ' Sensormatic Electronics unit and related to cloud-based ...

29. Durbin Presses For Increased Transparency And Competition To Lower Prescription Drug Prices

... drugs in America each have an average of 71 patents and that 78 percent of all new patents obtained are for drugs that are already on the market.

30. Sberbank : SberDevices team patents first developments in wearable magnetometers

Sberbank : SberDevices team patents first developments in wearable magnetometers. Link copied. 07/14/2021 | 09:37am. Copier lien. SberDevices ...

31. The Complicated Patenting of Our Psychedelic Future

There has been a surge in patents of psychedelic therapies. Some recent headlines have suggested that patent claims on psychedelics represent a ...

32. Fed. Circ. Won't Undo Johnson Controls Unit's IP Loss

The patents, the earliest of which was issued in 2011, covered a wireless surveillance system that uses what the patents call input capture devices, or ...

33. NPE Patent Cases Are Up 7% In First Half Of 2021

RPX's report also notes that IP Edge's patents partly come from operating companies. Earlier this year, RPX warned of a "new breed" of NPEs amid the ...

34. WHO Committee Wants Global Rules On Gene-Editing Patents

Overall, the committee had concerns that patents could make governance and oversight of human genome editing more complicated, according to the ...

35. Federal Circuit: 'Patentees Need Not Prove Their Case at the Pleading Stage'

As to two of the patents, U.S. Patent Nos. 7,664,988 and 8,112,670, it concluded that the district court erred in finding the plaintiff's infringement ...

36. Network-1 Expands Its Foreign M2M/IoT Patent Portfolio With Three New Granted Patents

The M2M/IoT Patent Portfolio currently includes twenty-nine (29) issued U.S. patents and seven (7) pending U.S. patent applications, plus one (1) ...

37. Automobile Companies and R&D: Top 5 Spenders

The company was granted 2,079 patents in 2020 and owns 22,157 patents, which is the 11th highest number of patents in terms of current cumulative ...

38. British American Tobacco Invalidates Philip Morris' E-Cig IP

The patents purportedly disclosed two aspects of the same invention: a heating element that acts as both a heater and a temperature sensor, and a " ...

39. District Court's Pleading Standard Returns an Error Code in PS4 Battle

Bot M8 LLC (“Bot M8”) asserted a series of patents related to gaming machines against Sony Corporation of America, Sony Corporation, and Sony ...

40. Nabati Foods files patents for plant-based liquid egg product

Nabati Foods files patents for its proprietary, plant-based egg product, Nabati Plant Eggz, in Canada, the United States, and Australia. It also and ...