Today's Top Patent Stories

1. Yet-Ran Chen - Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center

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2. Arbutus Escalates LNP Patent Battle vs Pfizer - AllSci

The filings build on an existing US case in the District of New Jersey covering five patents, meaning Pfizer and BioNTech now face parallel LNP ...

3. Sanofi sues Pfizer, Moderna over mRNA vaccine patents - AllSci

... patents held by Translate Bio, the mRNA specialist Sanofi acquired for USD 3.2 billion in 2021. Complaints filed in the US District Court for the ...

4. European Inventor Award Goes to Scientist Behind Oatly's Oat Protein Process

Why patents mattered from the start. In 1994, Triantafyllou and Öste co-founded Cereal Base Ceba AB, the predecessor of Oatly. Patents proved ...

5. How IPHatch is turning dormant MNC patents into startup equity across Asia | e27

Piece Future's Jason Loh explains why founders can own unused patents instead of building every technology from scratch in Asia.

6. US probes Samsung for alleged infringement of Netlist's memory-chip patents

... patents. California-based Netlist has accused Samsung and its U.S. units of ?infringing its patents ?on ?dynamic random access memory, a type of ...

7. Towards a More (Un)Balanced Patent System? | IIC - Springer Nature

... patents between innovative and generic companies, it has not produced a strong resonance in patent law doctrine. The following observations and ...

8. Case: Patents/Obviousness (Fed. Cir.) - Bloomberg Law News

The court affirmed decisions of the PTAB that challenged claims of Slingshot Printing LLC's patents that concern the use of temperature sensors to ...

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

Case: Patents/Obviousness (P.T.A.B.). July 17, 2026, 6:58 AM PDT. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board said that challenged claims of ArcelorMittal's ...

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

Case: Patents/Obviousness (P.T.A.B.). July 17, 2026, 7:05 AM PDT. According to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, challenged claims of ...

11. Case: Patents/Pleadings (N.D. Cal.) - Bloomberg Law News

Case: Patents/Pleadings (N.D. Cal.) July 16, 2026, 10:12 AM PDT. A federal district court in California granted Zoom Video Communications Inc.'s ...

12. US probes Samsung for alleged infringement of Netlist's memory-chip patents - ET Telecom

The US International Trade Commission is investigating Samsung Electronics for alleged infringement of Netlist's memory-chip patents, ...

13. When AI drives discovery — Patents and drug development | Secondary Sources | National

When AI drives discovery — Patents and drug development. 2026 PRINDBRF 0314. •. By Carla Kim, Esq., Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC.

14. WIPO: Global South calls for a balanced a development-oriented SCP agenda

Geneva, 17 July (TWN) – Developing countries emphasized that the Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP) agenda is to be to promote a ...

15. Pioneers of Aeronautical Engineering: Bruce Banks - The Man with Most Patents at NASA's ...

Pioneers of Aeronautical Engineering: Bruce Banks – The Man with Most Patents at NASA's Glenn Center. Bruce Banks spent more than four decades at NASA ...

16. Ford patents caught in government 'kill switch' debate - AOL.com

“These patents apply to law enforcement fleets in vehicles that we only sell to law enforcement such as the Interceptor, not consumer vehicles.”.

17. Arbutus, Sanofi escalate mRNA patent fights; InnoCare's TYK2 contender advances

... patents in using a kind of lipid nanoparticle technology to help ... patents covering lipid nanoparticles. Sanofi inherited some of those ...

18. Kioxia owes Viasat $229 million for infringing flash-memory patents, US jury says - CNA

Kioxia owes Viasat $229 million for infringing flash-memory patents, US jury says ... July 16 : A federal jury in Waco, Texas said on Thursday that ...

19. Key Ford Motor Co. patents through history - The Detroit News

Ford Motor Co. has filed a lot of patents in its more than 120 years, and it continues to be among some of the top companies for filing ...

20. Ford patents caught in government 'kill switch' debate - The Detroit News

Some patents that Ford Motor Co. has filed discusses collecting biometrics information to be compared. “No matter what a patent application outlines, ...

21. Ford patents spark kill switch privacy debate - The Detroit News

Ford patents ignite privacy concerns over a possible 'kill switch' and data-sharing as D.C. weighs drunk-driving rules.

22. Weekly take: Has arbitration found its SEP moment? | Managing Intellectual Property

Arbitral tribunals can also resolve disputes across portfolios in a single arbitration, including patents from multiple jurisdictions. 2. Ease of ...

23. US at 250: IP firms rethink the value of specialists | Managing Intellectual Property

I write patents, but I'm also an IP business counsellor,” says Robert Hulse, co-leader of Fenwick & West's patents and emerging technologies practice.

24. Kioxia owes Viasat $229 million for infringing flash-memory patents, US jury says

Kioxia owes Viasat $229 million for infringing flash-memory patents, US jury says. Published on 07/16/2026 at 07:33 pm EDT. Reuters. Lock This ...

25. Patalyze: AI for patent decisions - Munich Startup

Determining whether a new product infringes existing patents often takes weeks and costs thousands of euros. Munich-based legal tech company ...

26. Plastics Hall of Fame opens nominations for Class of 2027

Nomination materials include a candidate's career accomplishments, employment history, patents, publications, volunteer service, presentations and ...

27. Kioxia owes Viasat $229 million for infringing flash-memory patents, US jury says | Reuters

Blake Brittain reports on intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets, for Reuters Legal. He has ...

28. A CNIPA top-ten invalidation case on parameter-defined optical patents - VitalLaw.com

... imaging system patents. One of those victories—CNIPA Invalidation Decision No. 581571 concerning Chinese inven...

29. Netlist hits Samsung with second ITC complaint over memory chips - World IP Review

Arcansel / Shutterstock.com. 17 July 2026NewsPatentsSarah Speight. Netlist hits Samsung with second ITC complaint over memory chips.

30. AOC Brings An Inhaler To Congress To Expose Big Pharma's Dirtiest Secret - YouTube

... patents on minor, superficial adjustments rather than creating new chemical breakthroughs, companies prevent low-cost generic alternatives from ...