Patent News for Friday 16th July 2021

1. Novartis' Expert Accuses Rival's Atty Of Gaslighting In IP Trial

Plexxikon's patents cover molecular compounds that use the same mechanism of action as Plexxikon's rival cancer treatment drug Zelboraf, according to ...

2. Access to anti-covid vaccines: research, development and role of patents.

Access to anti-covid vaccines: research, development and role of patents. ... Recenti Prog Med. 2021 Jul-Aug;112(7):499-503. doi: 10.1701/3638.36184.

3. Sony patents PS5 online tournament system

Sony patents PS5 online tournament system ... With the rising popularity of eSports each year, online gaming tournaments are nothing new and the format ...

4. Determining When a Patent Portfolio is Standard-Essential: A Probabilistic Approach

Several studies exist that have tried to estimate the essentiality of patents that are declared as potentially essential to industry standards. For example, a ...

5. A gender gap has resulted in fewer women's health inventions, but it's narrowing

Women's patents had a greater likelihood of addressing health issues that affect more women, like breast cancer, postpartum preeclampsia or ...

6. How to protect software with intellectual property rights — the basics

Patents protect the technical ideas that underpin the way software works. The catch is that patents are more difficult and costly to obtain than other IP ...

7. Exro unveils new application for Coil Driver motor controller: optimizing charging and V2G

Exro has filed a new family of patents for this use case. The recent patent filings raise Exro's combined held and submitted patent portfolio to 36.

8. FRONT MATTER | The Case for Patents

The Case for Patents, pp. i-xx (2021) No Access. FRONT MATTER. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811225666_fmatterCited by:0. Next. About. Figures ...

9. Micro Focus Agrees To Pay $67.5 Mln To Settle Patent Litigation With Wapp Tech

As per the settlement, the Company has been granted a fully paid-up, worldwide, irrevocable licence for the patents asserted by Wapp for current and ...

10. Australia: Federal Court decision resets expectations for patent term extensions

Under the Patents Act 1990 (Cth) (the Act), the 20 year patent term of some standard pharmaceutical patents can be extended by up to five years if the ...

11. Purdue nabbed 175 US utility patents in 2020, sixth most among colleges worldwide

Through the Purdue Research Foundation, the school earned 175 patents, ranking it behind only the University of California, Massachusetts Institute of ...

12. Latest Legal Update Express [Intellectual Property] | :The Hong Kong Advantage | Global IP Legal ...

... into the law; (2) The protection period of design patent sis extended to 15 years; (3) A domestic priority system for design patents is provided for.

13. Wine & mansion tour part of Beaver Falls CDC fundraiser

Stephen Moltrup, founder of Moltrup Steel in Beaver Falls, built the house for his family around 1912 with monies from his patents. He made major ...

14. Patent Office Policies Drive Interest in Old Litigation Playbook

Unified Patents, a membership organization that challenges patents at the patent office, both in inter partes review and reexam, has separately ...

15. Still No Need to Prove an Infringement Case at the Pleading Stage

This case initially involved a number of asserted patents, and the infringement claims of all but one were dismissed by the lower court for failure to state a ...

16. Case: Patents & Trade Secrets/Pleadings (ND Cal.)

Case: Patents & Trade Secrets/Pleadings (N.D. Cal.) ... A federal district court in California granted in part and denied in part various venture capital firms' ...

17. WWE, fuboTV Seek Stay of Sito Mobile Patent Infringement Suit

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. and fuboTV are seeking to hit pause on Sito Mobile's claims that they are infringing patents that ensure smooth ...

18. Ford patents charging electric cars by towing them

Vehicles could be charged at all times when being towed, or when the tow vehicle is braking or going downhill, putting less extra load on the tow ...

19. Cisco Files VoIP Patent Complaint Against Estech

... Inc. filed suit against Estech Systems Inc. for the willful infringement of three of its patents relating to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) on Thursday.

20. Ticagrelor Beneficial for Moderate Stroke: New THALES Analysis

... patients have shown benefits of clopidogrel plus aspirin for patents with minor stroke (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale [NIHSS] score, 0–3).

21. New Partnership Between UKISS and TOOL Global to Revolutionize the Digital Security Industry in ...

Their technology has also been granted patents in most major markets including China, the United States, Europe, Asia, and India. Their clients ...

22. Roku Asks Court to Rule Ad Platform Doesn't Infringe Patents

Roku asked a Delaware federal court for a judgment that its OneView advertising platform products and services don't infringe nine patents owned by ...

23. CAFC reiterates that patents do not need to prove their case at the plea stage in partially reversing ...

In its answer, Sony asserted noninfringement of the alleged patents and argued that “the Complaint fails to identify legitimate theories for how the ...

24. Patents and standards

Well-known examples are the GSM, GPRS, UMTS or LTE telecommunications standards administered by the European Telecommunications Standards ...

25. AIA § 3(n) Effective Filing Date Provisions Part I: A Look at PGR Eligibility

Patent drafters should beware that they may unintentionally subject transition applications and patents issuing from them to AIA provisions, such as ...

26. Judge Cuts Two Abstract Patents Loose From IBM, Zillow Dispute

Two IBM Corp. patents on map-making technology cover abstract ideas and are invalid, a Washington state federal judge said in a win for Zillow Inc.

27. Good Earth signs license agreement – Joins Lynk Labs licensing program

This includes patents covering LED technology such as User Selectable-CCT or Brightness, Color Tuning, Warm-Dimming, Smart Lighting, Controls, ...