Patent News for Tuesday 27th July 2021

1. Samsung expands royalty-free program for small firms

Under the move, the world's top memory chip maker will allow 99 businesses to use its 172 cases of patents without paying royalties. The latest step will ...

2. Biotech Co. Can't Arbitrate $881M Cannabinoid IP Fight

"Of course, Amyris may yet prevail if discovery shows that it did not infringe the patents licensed exclusively to Lavvan," the judge wrote. "But as it ...

3. Companies Strike Deal To End Mitsubishi Patent War

standard-essential patents. The deal between Oppo and Sisvel International SA, which owns some of the patents, came just over a month after a London ...

4. Companies Strike Deal To End Mitsubishi Patent War

Mitsubishi invented the patents it holds, while the patents in Sisvel's portfolio originated from smartphone makers including LGE, Blackberry and Nokia, ...

5. Review Group Slams 'Specious' Sun Pharma Skin Drug Patent

The report by International Patent Reviews LLC, a group that says it is focused on identifying patents filed by drugmakers that don't represent novel ...

6. Do AI Patents Come At The Expense Of Innovation?

Do AI Patents Come At The Expense Of Innovation? 27/07/2021. India had ten times as many AI-relevant patent applications in 2018 ...

7. Taiwan's TSMC leads patent race during first half of 2021

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — For the first time, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) applied for more than 1,000 patents during a six-month ...

8. Last Week in the Federal Circuit (July 19-23): Considering Secondary Considerations

Chemours Company owns two patents for this polymer, which Chemours sells commercially. Daikin Industries petitioned for inter partes review, ...

9. Oppo, Sisvel end patent dispute with 3G/4G licence

While Mitsubishi Electric is the original inventor of its patents, the patents held by Sisvel originate from smartphone manufacturers LGE, Blackberry ( ...

10. Don Hajec

Donald Hajec currently serves as the Patents Chief Business Officer at the USPTO. Don began his career at the USPTO in 1982 as a patent examiner ...

11. Viewpoint: MEP calls for end to 'trickle-down' innovation policy

Moderna also holds patents in Delaware, US, where income from patents is exempt from taxes. This means Moderna is likely to pay little in taxes on ...

12. Apple won 42 Patents today covering their Measuring App, MacBook Touch Bar, Customizing the ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially published a series of 42 newly granted patents for Apple Inc. today. In this particular report we briefly ...

13. 10x Genomics Signs Global Patent Cross License Agreement with Bio-Rad

Both companies have agreed that each company's patents are owned by each respective company. “Today's settlement underscores the value of our ...

14. 10x Genomics (TXG) Signs Global Patent Cross License Agreement with Bio-Rad (BIO)

The term of the agreement is for the life of the licensed patents. The cross license excludes products related to spatial analysis and In Situ analysis.

15. Apple named on list of top Chinese patent buyers

It could be that many of those Chinese transactions from 2020 came as the title to certain Intel patents were transferred over to their new owner.

16. CIIPM's next virtual training course is IP Matters

The organisers say: For this course, we will review a range of IP rights, including patents, trademarks, utility models and designs, and trade secrets. We ...

17. Three New Patents for Know Labs Expand IP Portfolio and Signal Further Applications for Bio-RFID™

(OTCQB: KNWN) today announced it has been granted three new patents that support its medical diagnostic focus while also signaling potential for ...

18. Neuromorphic Technology for Computing and Machine Learning Available on the Ocean Tomo Bid ...

The portfolio includes patents on spiking neurons, spiking networks, spike-timing dynamics, neuromorphic learning/AI, visual recognition, and visual ...

19. Form 8-K KNOW LABS, INC. For: Jul 27

Each of the newly issued patents relates to the unique configuration of the antennas used in Know Labs' Bio-RFID sensors. This unique arrangement ...

20. Google Patents

21. Merck Announces Fourth-Quarter 2021 Dividend

... global trends toward health care cost containment; technological advances, new products and patents attained by competitors; challenges inherent ...

22. Sony Patents Cloud Gaming Technology; Promises “Elimination of Piracy,” Alternative to Consoles

Nonetheless, the patents publication date is June 3rd. Piracy is described as a major issue for the gaming industry therein, as “virtually every major video ...

23. US district court patent filings set to climb above 4000 for the year

Data from both Unified Patents and RPX suggests that recent climbs in district court patent cases in the US are set to continue, as is the decline in ...

24. Drug discovery company works with ethnobotanists and data scientists

GBS also has two additional U.S. patents and three corresponding patents issued internationally. A research paper about artificial intelligence in drug ...

25. The Business of IP - Understanding and Creating Value: Part 4 - Spin Offs

But also, afterwards so that a suitable new brand, patents or other intellectual property is adopted together with the spin-off's corporate structure to ...

26. Bio-Rad Laboratories, 10x Genomics Settle IP Lawsuits, Sign Global Cross-Licensing Agreement

They have also agreed that each company's patents are owned by that company. 10x will pay Bio-Rad an undisclosed fee "in partial consideration for ...

27. British Lithium files two new technology patents

One lithium extracting firm is making headways after filing two new patents for its technology. British Lithium, based in Roche, Cornwall, filed its first ...

28. Memory Health Receives Third Patent For Role In The Prevention And/Or Treatment Of ...

"We now have three patents that support the efficacy of this supplement." Memory Health was developed following more than 20 years of scientific ...

29. Qualcomm beats Intel, revives mobile patent at Federal Circuit

Qualcomm had sued Apple in California federal court in 2017, alleging Apple's iPhone 7 infringed the patent at issue and other patents in a case the ...

30. Latest Federal Court Cases - July 2021 #3

In this week's Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit reversed a PTAB decision in consolidated IPRs that two patents were unpatentable as obvious.

31. Sullivan & Cromwell Snags Former Assistant Solicitor General

Another case Ratner worked on involved the legal question of whether inventors can be barred from challenging their own patents. The case, Minerva ...

32. Design, Packaging, and Patents with Evelio Mattos and Ethan Goller

Recently a heated debate broke out on LinkedIn on whether it is "right" for print customers who received help with concept and file creation from a ...

33. Supreme Court gives China a technology innovation advantage over US

Judicial and PTAB invalidation of U.S. patents threatens our national security, economy, and technological innovation. The NSCAI warns of our loss of ...

34. New from China: Light Administrative Injunctions Now Available for Patents, Designs, and Copyrights

If so applied, design patents and copyright owners would have a very quick, effective and cheaper tool to enforce their rights, and would not need to ...

35. Memory Health Receives Third Patent For Role In The Prevention And/Or Treatment Of ...

Not all patents, or supplements for that matter, are the same. Consumers need to know." Memory Health contains all-natural active ingredients, including ...

36. Network-1 Announces Settlement of Patent Litigation With Hewlett Packard

Network-1 currently owns eighty-five (85) patents covering various telecommunications and data networking technologies as well as technologies ...

37. Biomedican receives approval notification from the US Patent Office on its first patent

“As a result of this patent and three other pending patents, our strains can produce cannabinoids up to 5% from dry cell mass. Higher yields mean ...

38. Biomedican Receives Approval Notification From the US Patent Office on Its 1st Patent

"As a result of this patent and three other pending patents, our strains can produce cannabinoids up to 5% from dry cell mass. Higher yields mean ...

39. PTAB Wary Of Google Foe's Prior Art Argument In IP Dispute

The patents-in-suit are U.S. Patent Nos. 7,076,431 and 9,451,084. Administrative Patent Judges David C. McKone, Stacey G. White and Sheldon M.