Patent News for Wednesday 21st January 2026

1. ITC opens patent investigation over Apple Watch fall detection - 9to5Mac

... patents. Apple was later able to reverse the ban, though the dispute is ... The case centers around these devices' fall detection feature, which Texas- ...

2. Apple under legal attack over fall detection tech - AppleInsider

The company maintains that its patents have been infringed by: Apple; Google; Samsung Electronics; Garmin. In the case of Samsung, the complain ...

3. Alcatel Sues Microsoft Over Patents - BetaNews

... patents, but do name the technologies. The first lawsuit claims Microsoft is infringing on USPTO patents 6,339,830 and 6,874,090, each entitled ...

4. Future Ferraris Could Literally Be Shape-Shifting Vehicles - CarBuzz

The differences show that the automaker doesn't mean to indicate that this tech could apply to any specific product. Source: WIPO. News · Patents and ...

5. General Motors Patents An Imminent-Crash Warning System - CarBuzz

Perusing the latest rounds of patents, CarBuzz found one from General ... Patents Online / GM Global. Nattily dubbed the 'Non-Line-Of-Sight ...

6. Patent Applications Drop 9.0% in 2025: Not Good News - CEPR.net

Interestingly, the top two companies filing for patents, Samsung and TSMC, are both foreign, headquartered in South Korea and Taiwan, respectively.

7. Patented: Spark Biomedical's Devices for Treating Stress, Improving Alertness ... - Dallas Innovates

DFW ranked No. 11 with 83 patents. Highlights: Toyota's solar films, HPE tamper-timestamping, BofA Argon2d payments, Lennox HVAC leak/blower ...

8. Many brands neglect timing and consistency - Delano.lu

... patents, trademarks, and IP valuation concretely support business performance today? “Office Freylinger's expertise in patents, trademarks and IP ...

9. Tesla patents 'clever math trick' for HW3, but nothing points to delivering promised self-driving

These patents represent interesting engineering work that will likely enable Tesla to squeeze a bit more life out of HW3 vehicles. They may make V14 ...

10. Italy to double in space patents - Il Sole 24 ORE

The study carried out by Liuc (Innovation and Patents Observatory) and Politecnico di Milano (Space Economy Observatory) shows how Italy, although not ...

11. The Council of the EU wants to maintain the patentability of GMOs/NGTs - Inf'OGM

While it does not include the ban on patents on deregulated GMOs requested by the European Parliament in April 2024, it is useful to understand why ...

12. Case: Patents/Procedure (Fed. Cir.) - Bloomberg Law News

... patents for surgical techniques and tools for treating spinal deformities. According to the appeals court, one expert's testimony didn't ...

13. Case: Patents/Procedure (P.T.A.B.) - Bloomberg Law News

Case: Patents/Procedure (P.T.A.B.). Jan. 20, 2026, 10:29 AM PST. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board denied DCSTAR Inc.'s request for discretionary ...

14. Corteva, Bayer End Suit Over Roundup-Resistant Corn Patents - Bloomberg Law News

Corteva, Bayer End Suit Over Roundup-Resistant Corn Patents ... Roundup herbicide maker Monsanto and Bayer CropScience settled a patent suit brought by ...

15. ASUS Listed Among Clarivate's Top 100 Global Innovators 2026

The patents cover diverse disciplines beyond in-house hardware design, including communication standards and networking technologies, cybersecurity ...

16. USPTO declines challenges to First Solar TOPCon patents - Renewables Now

Attempts by three solar companies to challenge First Solar Inc's (NASDAQ:FSRL) Tunnel Oxide Passivated Contact (TOPCon) patents have been rejected ...

17. USPTO denies IPR challenges against First Solar TOPCon patents - Solarbytes

The challenged patents cover methods for manufacturing TOPCon crystalline silicon PV cells. Image Credit/Source: ClickerHappy/Pexels.

18. Cabbacis Granted U.S. Patent for Vaporizer Pods Containing Tobacco and Hemp

... patents. Cabbacis also owns various U.S. patents covering cigarettes with blends of very-low-nicotine tobacco and hemp, and its products in ...

19. Madras High Court adopts EPO approach in overturning refusal of data-lineage invention

... Patents Act ((T)CMA(PT) 58 of 2023). Setting aside the IPO's order, the court directed that the patent be granted. Ab Initio's application (4693 ...

20. Selector secures eight US patents to advance AI-powered network intelligence

The granted patents span innovations in causal inference, LLM training, AI-powered correlation, predictive maintenance and network path intelligence.

21. PTAB Reinforces Preference for PGR | K&L Gates LLP - JDSupra

... patents), this encourages those in industry to police the competitor landscape and promptly act against patents that warrant challenging. This is ...

22. Supreme Court Takes Up Hikma v. Amarin: Induced Infringement and Skinny Labels in the ...

The latter indication was approved years after Vascepa first entered the market and is protected by method-of-use patents reflecting extensive ...

23. Texas Round-Up: December 2025 | Fish & Richardson - JDSupra

9,465,913 (the “'913 patent”) and 9,886,594 (the “'594 patent”) (collectively the “asserted patents”) and that the claims of the asserted patents were ...

24. Quantifying Innovation in Stroke: Large Language Model Bibliometric Analysis

In this bibliometric patent-publication analysis, a 13 billion–parameter Llama LLM was trained to identify patents related to stroke disease, as ...

25. Illumina and Powell Gilbert in love with Lisbon - JUVE Patent

The US patents are No. 12,251,702, No. 8,951,781, No. 11,117,130, No. 11,697,116 and No. 12,151,241. In September 2025, Element Biosciences retaliated ...

26. Renew, Review, Revenue: The IP Cycle No One Talks About - Lexology

Are older patents providing deterrence, leverage, or licensing value—even if we're no longer developing that tech? Could parts of our portfolio be ...

27. $166 Million Verdict Vacated: The Perils of Confused Expert Testimony - Lexology

As the court explained,. Finesse Wireless LLC (Finesse) owns the '134 and '775 patents, which generally relate to methods for mitigating ...

28. Life in 'fast forward': combining law, tech and problem solving

Patents. Life in ... Lead with integrity and design a world where humans and AI amplify each other. Topics. NewsFive minutes withBahrainPatents.

29. Maucher Jenkins

Experts in International Intellectual Property Law. Protecting great ideas with Patents, Trade Marks & Registered Designs ... Patents. Maucher Jenkins ...

30. US Patent Board Declines Applications Against First Solar's TOPCon Patents

... patents, covering methods of manufacturing TOPCon crystalline silicon solar cells. The applications filed by the three companies were declined on ...

31. Inventorship Errors Can Render Patents Unenforceable – Lessons From Inline Plastics - Mondaq

... patents. The Massachusetts federal court ultimately found Inline's patents unenforceable due to intentional omission of inventors. What Is ...

32. USPTO denies challenges of First Solar TOPCon patents - PV Tech

The USPTO has denied three challenges to patents held by US solar manufacturer First Solar pertaining to its production of TOPCon cells.

33. VITURE Calls XREAL Lawsuit “patent-troll-style” in Escalating AR Glasses IP Battle - Road to VR

Viture claims that similar patents have already been rejected in China, that its products do not infringe, and that Xreal's patent adds only minor, ...

34. Nvidia Assigned Eight Patents - StorageNewsletter

NVIDIA Corp., Santa Clara, CA, has been assigned 8 patents for data storage technologies and Application programming interface solutions.

35. Lassen Peak Secures Foundational Patents for Handheld Terahertz Weapon Scanner ... - TipRanks

... patents that collectively lock down both the device architecture and its method of use, bringing the company's total issued patents to six. The ...

36. SUPREME COURT NEWS—USAA asks U.S.... - VitalLaw.com

SUPREME COURT NEWS—USAA asks U.S. Supreme Court to revive invalidated mobile check deposit patents, (Jan 21, 2026). Law Firms Mentioned:Goodwin ...

37. Call for Submissions: Applied Research Grant Program (Kuwait) - fundsforNGOs

... patents, clinical applications, or policy development. Purpose and Strategic Objectives. The Applied Research Grant Program aims to: Generate ...