Patent News for Friday 24th September 2021

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Sep 24th 2021

1. Govt reduces patent fees for educational institutions by 80 percent

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The central government introduced Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2021 on Tuesday which reduced the fee for patent filing and prosecution for educational ...

2. Government must support waiver of Covid vaccine patents - The Irish Times

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Government must support waiver of Covid vaccine patents. Intellectual property rules are currently blocking vaccine production. 6 minutes ago. Christine Kelly.

3. Albright Won't Wait To Transfer 'Venue Manipulation' Cases - Law360

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Ikorongo's patents cover ways to share computer usage experiences. Ikorongo sought a stay in all three cases after the full Federal Circuit declined to ...

4. New patents from Snap, Airbnb and Ford - The Hustle

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Trends member Neer Sharma has been rounding up the best corporate patents every week for his must-read newsletter Patent Drop.

5. Cochlear Advises of U.S. Patent Infringement Complaint - Bloomberg Law

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Cochlear's legacy products and related patents predate the university's patent by several years; These earlier legacy products and patents embody the ...

6. Del. Jury Says Comcast App Infringes 1 Of Tech Co.'s Patents - Law360

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Instead, the jury found only that Comcast's Xfinity app infringed, albeit indirectly, one of the two NexStep patents that made it to the trial, ...

7. Coronavirus vaccines: Waive patents, share know-how | The Seattle Times

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In Gary Locke's Op-Ed, he opines that “no expert seriously thinks suspending IP protections will boost vaccine supply.” Seriously? Public health experts around ...

8. This New ETF Is Totally a Wild - RealMoney - TheStreet

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Often, they can be bought out simply for their IP or patents. Mindset has three final PCT applications and three provisional applications for psilocybin- ...

9. Firstface lawsuit win over Apple for iPhone unlocking infringement upheld | Biometric Update

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The company holds several patents related to biometric authentication, according to the report. Apple is unlikely to appeal the decision, Firstface says, ...

10. A New Nikola Tesla? Engineer Devises “UFO Patents” for the US Navy

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Theoretical inventions known as the “UFO patents” have been inflaming worldwide curiosity. A product of the American engineer Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais, ...

11. Tethon 3D patents its Genesis line of 3D printing resins

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Tethon 3D patents its Genesis line of 3D printing resins. Kubi Sertoglu September 24th 2021 - 6:00pm 0 0 ...

12. Patent trolls' underhanded trade schemes must be stopped | TheHill

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Many of today's products are amalgamations of patents and inputs by many countries. In recent months, we have seen vivid examples of this, as supply chain ...

13. Top 5 Intellectual-Property Challenges Businesses Face - Entrepreneur

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Patents that can be used in licensing programs to generate revenue. Patents that have become obsolete and need not be renewed to save on maintenance-fee costs.

14. E3D Announces Patent-Filing Plans | All3DP

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Many in the 3D printing community credit patents with stifling innovation early in the technology's life by prohibiting improvement and widespread ...

15. Discussing AIA § 3n Effective Filing Date Provisions - National Law Review

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AIA § 3(n)(2) covers how certain sections of the old pre-AIA law will continue to apply to all claims of some patents along with the new AIA law.

16. Pharma in the Courts: Takeda, AbbVie, RedHill, Pfizer and Gilead - PharmaLive

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This week, Pfizer subsidiary Wyeth and Puma Biotechnology filed a lawsuit against AstraZeneca, alleging that Tagrisso infringes on two separate patents that ...

17. Merck will pay royalties on next-gen pneumococcal shot to settle Pfizer patent fight - Fierce Pharma

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... the companies were fighting it out in court over patents on the lucrative shots ... the companies involving our pneumococcal conjugate vaccines patents.

18. Judge rules to invalidate two NR patents in win for Elysium Health - NutraIngredients-USA.com

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However, Judge Connolly granted Elysium's motion for summary judgement, stating that the patents in question were invalid because nicotinamide riboside, a form ...

19. Dexcom Fights Abbott's Bid to Invalidate Glucose Monitors - Law360

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Law360, London (September 24, 2021, 2:36 PM BST) -- Dexcom has urged a London court to invalidate several glucose monitoring patents held by of Abbott ...

20. Morocco & Europe agree to step up partnership in patents, intellectual property & trademarks

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According to EPO, around 400 granted European patents were validated in Morocco in 2020, a number that is expected to grow in the coming years with the ...

21. In Depth: How a Patent Troll Ended Up Behind Bars - Caixin Global

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Since 2009, Li has sued several domestic and multinational firms over some of the more than 500 patents he registered with the China National Intellectual ...

22. Moderna's covid-19 IP pledge is about to be put to the test - IAM Media

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Moderna Therapeutics won plaudits at the end of last year, when it pledged not to enforce its covid 19 vaccine-related patents. Now, with the company having ...

23. Someone is using old Jawbone patents to sue Apple and Google - The Verge

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The suits allege that Apple and Google infringed eight patents previously belonging to Jawbone and focused around noise-isolation algorithms originally ...

24. Honda Patents Reveal Camera Safety System With Image Sensors - carandbike

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Honda Patents Reveal Camera Safety System With Image Sensors. The idea is to use stereo cameras instead of a radar-powered system, and the safety system will be ...

25. AI cannot be the inventor of patents, UK court rules | IT PRO

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The UK Court of Appeal has ruled that artificial intelligence (AI) cannot hold ownership of new patents, in a two-to-one majority verdict.