Today's Top Patent Stories

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Jan 21st 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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, ...

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

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