Patent News for Wednesday 21st July 2021

1. Many Automakers Rely On Patents, But That Doesn't Mean All Patents Are Good For Automakers

The auto industry is an innovation leader. As major inventors, auto companies own hundreds of thousands of patents and rely on those patents to protect ...

2. The future of intellectual property policy — COVID-19 and beyond: Highlights from my conversation ...

So that's the basic idea: stop their patents, put them on hold, allow other generic manufacturers to make the drugs, distribute them quickly, and solve ...

3. Soft-Tex International Announces Grand Opening of Second US-Based Manufacturing Facility ...

... hundreds of patents, patents pending, and trademarks, Soft-Tex is the leading choice for retailers looking to offer a differentiated, well-merchandised ...

4. Is the power sector seeing the beginnings of a robotics investment boom?

GlobalData's thematic approach to sector activity seeks to group key company information on hiring, deals, patents and more by topic to see which ...

5. Four common myths about patent pools – and why they are wrong

portfolio evaluation methods are ineffective;; licences include, in any material number, patents that affect the royalty; or; licensed portfolios contain, in any ...

6. Pfizer/BioNTech to produce Covid-19 vaccine in S.Africa

Debate over patents -. With vaccine rollouts well under way in the West, and supply even outstripping demand in some countries, calls have grown for ...

7. Thailand: DIP closes physically until further notice due to COVID-19 surge

For office actions in relation to patents, designs and petty patents, deadlines falling between 12 July 2021 and 31 August 2021 will be treated as falling ...

8. Is Access Advance Really Checking Essentiality? -- An HEVC Case Study — Unified Patents

These pools claim to offer thousands or tens of thousands of allegedly-essential patents, both without providing evidence that the patents are, in fact, ...

9. Federal Circuit Invalidates Device Patent As Directed to an Abstract Idea

... lower court decisions suggest that, in certain circumstances, medical device patents may not be immune from similar patent eligibility challenges.

10. Sabinsa reaches IP milestone with 300-plus ingredient patents granted

The recent patents include a patent for the company's ingredient Nigellin, a Nigella sativa (black cumin seed) ingredient composition rich in ...

11. Pfizer to work with South African plant for COVID-19 vaccine bottling in 2022

If the patents are shared, supporters argue local manufacturers will be able to scale up manufacturing and distribution, rather than relying on ...

12. Ford patents mobile charging solution for EVs like the Mach-E — by towing them

Electric vehicles are prevalent now, but long-distance travel using EVs that are non-Teslas still tends to be challenging. This was, at least, the ...

13. Mydecine Innovations Group expands patent portfolio to include MDMA-like compounds

The patents will allow Mydecine to scale its drug development program after promising discoveries in the field of MDMA research. Mydecine ...

14. AI may be the solution to skyrocketing numbers of SEP declarations

SEPs are on the rise, the number of annual newly declared patents has almost tripled over the past five years; there were 6,457 new declared patent ...

15. Tax Compliance & Technology

Essentially, it is a regime designed to encourage companies to undertake their R&D locally and keep relevant patents and jobs in Australia. Arguably, ...

16. Schwabe, Williamson and Wyatt PC | Most Recent Cases in Federal Courts – July 2021 # 2

At issue in the case was Bot M8 LLC's lawsuit against Sony Corporation of America, alleging infringement of six patents relating to gaming machines.

17. Blue Biofuels Files 3 Additional Patents on its CTS Technology

Alliance BioEnergy Plus Inc., DBA Blue Biofuels, (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it filed 3 additional patents that follow on the granted ...

18. Textron Alleges Chinese Drone Maker DJI Infringed Patents

Drones made by the China-based DJI -- whose founder, Wang Tao , became the first drone billionaire -- infringe five patents developed by Bell Textron ...

19. The Key To Lowering Drug Prices Is Improving Patent Quality

Patents are increasingly a hot topic in drug price policy conversations. So much so, that one might wonder if this newfound attention is deserved.

20. UMass Tells Fed. Circ. To Wipe Out L'Oreal's Skincare IP Win

The patents covered a way of adding adenosine to moisturizing cream, in aid of "enhancing the condition" of the user's skin, according to the language of ...

21. Amazon Patents Vans That Unleash A Little Army of Delivery Drones

Amazon Patents Vans That Unleash A Little Army Of Delivery DronesAmazon Patents Vans That Unleash A. (Credit: WSJ. Photo edit by Andrea ...

22. Cost-cutting generics and biosimilars stuck in legal limbo

He asked Congress to protect a patent challenger's ability to “carve out” one potential use from a thicket of patents to help that drug come to market in a ...

23. Drilling Down on Criticism of Top-Down Approach to Determining Essentiality

Sabattini's claims that IPlytics assumes a 100% essentiality rate for all self-declared patents are untrue, as anyone who reads the 2017 EU study will ...