Patent News for Tuesday 21st September 2021

1. Sandoz Infringed Amgen's Psoriasis Drug Patents, Court Says - Law360

U.S. District Judge Michael A. Shipp upheld the validity of four patents covering Otezla and found that Sandoz Inc. and Zydus Pharmaceuticals had each ...

2. Apple's Siri and Applebot targeted in voice-enabled web search patent suit | AppleInsider

Patent holdings firm Parus Holdings last week filed a lawsuit claiming Apple's Siri voice assistant infringed on owned patents relating to methods of ...

3. Amgen Wins Patent Case on Otezla® - Investing News Network

The asserted patents claim apremilast as a composition of matter methods of treating psoriasis with apremilast, and crystalline forms of apremilast. The court ...

4. Scientific Games Must Face Card Shuffler Antitrust Suit - Law360

The judge said this was not based on a belief that the patents were invalid, but rather "from the belief that Shuffle Master sued without accessing the inner ...

5. Exclusive | PM Modi To Push Global Patents Waiver For Vaccines At Quad Summit In ...

... 1995, will allow countries to overcome the legal challenges posed by patents for timely provisioning of affordable medical products.

6. U.S. District Court Invalidates Dartmouth Patents Asserted by ChromaDex - PR Newswire

This dismissal follows Elysium Health's argument that the patents were invalid under 35 U.S.C. §101 and under controlling U.S. Supreme Court precedent because ...

7. Cue Biopharma Granted U.S. Patents on Lead Clinical Program Novel Drug Product ...

Patents Further Strengthen and Enhance Intellectual Property (IP) Portfolio. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cue Biopharma, ...

8. AEye Achieves Significant Milestone, Extends LiDAR IP Leadership With More Than 100 ...

Patents Uniquely Span Intelligent System Architecture, Modular Hardware, and Software Underlying AEye's Adaptive LiDAR System. DUBLIN, Calif., September 21, ...

9. Rage against the machines?: (another) DABUS patent and AI update - Lexology

This was on the basis that no specific provision in the Patents Act 1990 (Cth) expressly refutes the proposition that an AI machine can be an inventor. Further ...

10. EXCLUSIVE: ME2C Inks Non-Exclusive Licensing Pact For Mercury Emissions Capture ... - Benzinga

The licensed patents relate to ME2C's two-part Sorbent Enhancement Additive (SEA) process for mercury removal from coal-fired power plants.

11. Humacyte secures 3 more patents for implantable bioengineered tissue | WRAL TechWire

For issued U.S. patents, the last patent expires in 2035 and additional U.S. patent applications pending, if issued, would extend coverage into 2040. U.S. ...

12. Taiwan firm's latest patent sale hints at NPE demand for 5G patent rights - IAM Media

Several days before the patents changed hands, IAM reported on what appeared to be a first: a US NPE had sued Samsung with claimed 5G patents. The plaintiff, an ...

13. Biden Drug Price Pressure on Patent Office Draws Skeptics - Bloomberg Law

Administration Push. Patents—viewed by some as an obstacle to greater competition in pharmaceuticals—have seized the spotlight in a wide-ranging government ...

14. Valve patents "instant play" game downloads - NME

Valve patents “instant play” game downloads ... Steam owner Valve has plans for a new method of downloading games, allowing players instant access to software ...

15. Cue Biopharma Granted U.S. Patents on Lead Clinical Program Novel Drug Product ... - BioSpace

“The issuance of these patents represents an important development as we continue to build-up our IP portfolio and bolster patent protection for the novel ...

16. Kawasaki files patent for electric supercharger on a hybrid motorcycle - Autoblog

These patents also included descriptions of drive modes like "a fuel economy mode and a sporty travel mode," and contained drawings of a "Boost" button that ...

17. Kawasaki files patent for electric supercharger on a hybrid motorcycle - Yahoo News Singapore

Performance has been said to rival a 400-cc bike even though the Ninja 300 makes a fraction under 40 hp and the Ninja 400 makes 44 hp. Then came patents for ...

18. Kymeta Announces Grant of New U.S. Patent for Multi-Beam Capabilities Enabling ...

Backed by U.S. and international patents and licenses, the Kymeta terminal addresses the need for lightweight, slim, and high-throughput communication systems ...

19. Amgen (AMGN) Announces Patent Case Ruling on Otezla (Apremilast) - InvestorsObserver

What Does This Mean for AMGN? The U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey upheld the patents protecting Amgen's psoriasis therapy Otezla. The court's ...

20. ME2C® Environmental Announces a New License Agreement of its Patented Technology ...

The licensed patents relate to ME2C's two-part Sorbent Enhancement Additive (SEA®) process for mercury removal from coal-fired power plants.

21. Nextleaf Completes B.C. Restocking Delivery and Announces Saskatchewan Distribution

Nextleaf Solutions Ltd. a federally regulated producer of cannabis oil that owns one of the largest portfolios of U.S. patents for the extraction and ...

22. Valve working on tech that could let you play Steam games while they download | VG247

One of the developer's patents was recently discovered, and it could, among other things, allow users to play games as they download - similar to what they ...

23. Biden Drug Price Pressure on Patent Office Draws Skeptics - Bloomberg Law

Patents—viewed by some as an obstacle to greater competition in pharmaceuticals—have seized the spotlight in a wide-ranging government effort to get at high ...

24. PM Modi to Make Fresh Push for Waiver of Covid-19 Vaccine Patents at Quad Summit - News18

PM Modi to Make Fresh Push for Waiver of Covid-19 Vaccine Patents at Quad Summit. File image ...

25. Amgen blocks Sandoz, Zydus generics of psoriasis drug Otezla until 2028 | Reuters

Judge finds generic makers infringe Amgen patents · Blocks proposed generics until 2028 · Otezla made Amgen $2.2 billion last year.

26. Patent Exclusivity Health Checks for Biologics: Are Your U.S. Patents Ready to Maximize ROI ...

As part of the Strafford Publications' webinar series, Finnegan partners Paul Barker, Mark Feldstein, and Amanda Murphy will join the panel discussion on ...

27. Workshop on 'Patent Filing, Technology Transfer and Commercialization' - India Education Diary

Aligarh : Cognoscente experts discussed the noteworthiness of patents for safeguarding inventions in the online workshop on 'Patent Filing, ...

28. 'Scrum Board' Patents in Amazon Web Suit Found Abstract - Bloomberg Law

Two patents that Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud services is accused of infringing cover nothing more than an abstract idea, an Arizona federal judge found.

29. Nvidia Patents Face-to-Face 3D Stacked Dies for its Future GPUs | Tom's Hardware

Semiconductor companies have been exploring ways to step out of the traditional monolithic GPU die design for a while now, searching for something that will ...

30. Is the medical sector seeing the beginnings of a cloud investment boom? - Medical Device Network

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

31. IPWatchdog LIVE 'Jurassic Patents' Panel Explores Patenting Challenges for Life Sciences ...

On the final day of IPWatchdog LIVE last week, a panel titled “Jurassic Patents: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Life Science Innovation,” moderated ...

32. Swiss Hyperloop start-up begins work on Colorado test track - Global Construction Review

The track will be used to validate Hyperloop patents on full-scale cargo-transport infrastructure. Swisspod is based in Monthey, in the canton of Valais, ...

33. South Korean tech magnate proposes $1.2 billion town center for Osceola's Neocity ...

Song is the founder and CEO of DS Semicon and holds patents for a host of technologies used exclusively by Samsung. He met with Osceola Commissioner Cheryl ...

34. Fed. Circ. Lets Attys Argue Remotely Due To COVID Fears - Law360

The patents-in-suit in the DoDots case are U.S. Patent Nos. 8,020,083; 8,510,407; and 9,369,545. DoDots Licensing Solutions is represented by Perry Goldberg of ...

35. Parliamentary Standing Committee on IPR recommends a relook at Section 3, Patents Act - Lexology

a) Citing examples of patents on nicotine chewing gums, which are used for deaddiction from smoking and smoking devices which make smoking less hazardous, that ...

36. Leahy introduces bipartisan bills to boost American innovation | Vermont Business Magazine

Leahy-Tillis Bills Will Improve Access To The Patent System For Inventors From All Backgrounds And Shine A Spotlight On The True Owners Of Patents.

37. OQ Technology Applies for Series of Satellite IoT Patents in US, Europe

The company launched its first commercial satellite Tiger-2, to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) in June. The patents announced Tuesday look to improve remote IoT service.

38. Apple was granted 39 Patents today covering HMD Lens Position Sensing, Spatial Audio ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 39 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today, certainly one of the smallest lots ever ...

39. Intel Lands Agency Review of Another Learning Machine Patent - Bloomberg Law

Intel Corp. has convinced a patent office tribunal to review patents on learning machine technology that are part of a West Texas federal lawsuit brought by ...

40. Judge grants Erise IP rare attorney fee award worth more than $1M - Kansas City Business Journal

Companies such as Princeton Digital Image Corp. often are called patent trolls because they acquire patents and then files dozens of patent infringement ...

41. AI Can't Be Patent Inventor In UK, Appeals Court Rules - Law360

In a 2-1 decision, the Court of Appeal panel concluded that under the Patents Act 1977, only a person can be an inventor and the creator of the AI machine ...

42. Federal Circuit Damages Trial: Omega Patents v. CalAmp Corp. - National Law Review

Each of the offered licenses involved multiple patents, but Omega was unable to distinguish the single-patent royalty at issue from the exemplary multi-patent ...

43. Buyers are acquiring high-quality Toshiba patents, but it has plenty more on tap - IAM Media

In June, Toshiba transferred 61 US patents to an entity called Four Batons Wireless LLC. It was the latest transaction in a streak of IP divestments that has ...

44. Case: Patents/Summary Judgment (D. Del.) - Bloomberg Law

Case: Patents/Summary Judgment (D. Del.) ... Boston Scientific alleged that Nevro's Senza System, a high frequency spinal cord stimulator, and Nevro's inducement ...

45. AI inventor claims rejected in Court of Appeal patent ruling - Pinsent Masons

Dr Thaler has been arguing across several jurisdictions that the owner of AI systems should be the default owner of patents for inventions derived from ...

46. VirnetX Wants Next USPTO Chief To Eye Apple PTAB Rulings - Law360

Commissioner for Patents Drew Hirshfeld has been acting as USPTO director since January because President Joe Biden has not yet named anyone to lead the ...