Patent News for Wednesday 28th July 2021

1. Australia's medicines sector fights against vaccine IP waiver plan

Australia does not currently have a home-grown COVID-19 vaccine on the market, yet its biotechnology sector has lobbied hard against waiving patents.

2. VirnetX Scoffs At Apple's Bid To Ax $576M Patent Verdict

Meanwhile, Apple challenged the patents at the PTAB, in a case that was joined with a petition filed by an investment fund called Mangrove Partners, ...

3. Alsup OKs $5.9M Fees From Finjan, Slams Kramer Levin Attys

Finjan, which sued Juniper in 2017 alleging it infringed nine patents covering technologies for storing and downloading security data, tried to claim $142 ...

4. 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.

5. Seeds Of Trouble: Profits have prevailed over national interest

Even as the decade-long war over seed-patents and trait value on Bt cotton seems to reach an armistice, many SME seedcos feel profits have prevailed ...

6. This Apple patent has me much less excited about the iPhone 13

This isn't the first time Apple has been granted patents for under-display biometric tech, but this newly granted patent pertains to both phones and ...

7. Canada's Nabati Foods Is Now Making Vegan Eggs Using Lupin Beans (What's a Lupin Bean?)

Nabati Foods is entering the vegan egg alternative sector, announcing that it is filing patents for its new Nabati Plant Eggz in Canada, the U.S. and ...

8. Alsup OKs $5.9M Fees From Finjan, Slams Kramer Levin Attys

The patents-in-suit are U.S. Patent Nos. 6,804,780 and 8,677,494. Finjan is represented by Juanita Brooks, Frank J. Albert, Rob Courtney and Oliver J.

9. Spiky Questions Around Patenting of Spike Proteins

Amongst others the following US patents were discussed: ... of the optional ordre public or morality provision in the USA Patents Law (35 USC).

10. The R&D Dept.: Local patents for 7.28.2021

Local patents for 7.28.2021. Richmond BizSense July 28, 2021 0. Transaction exchange platform with watchdog microservice. Patent No. 11,068,903

11. New Tesla Cybertruck Patent Shows Design References For the Electric Pickup Truck

Somehow, the patents could have been utilized to be the basis for the Cybertruck's appearance, but this means that only some of them were being ...

12. Life sciences patent owners face a transformed inter partes review environment at the USPTO

Multiple petitions are particularly common for patents protecting biologic medicines. However, the PTAB has reversed course since its 2017 ruling in ...

13. WTO to meet to consider temporarily lifting vaccine patent protection

The World Trade Organization meets June 27 to 28 to discuss waiving vaccine patents to make it easier for countries to access COVID vaccines.

14. Microsoft Watch: New Patents uncover a Next-Gen Surface Book Concept & Foldable Tablet a ...

In this Microsoft Watch report we uncover two new patents. The first covers a new Surface device offering a built-in stand that offers a notebook mode, ...

15. Apple patents under display camera tech for Touch ID and Face ID

The Cupertino based giant had filed the patent with the USPTO, which was regarding camera sensors being embedded under the display. The patent ...

16. Forewarned and forearmed - Australian International Type Search Reports for patents

We outline the benefits of obtaining an ITSR to highlight possible issues with a filed Australian provisional patent application. By being forewarned ...

17. Google Patents

18. Case: Patents & Trade Secrets/Pleadings & Arbitration (SDNY)

Case: Patents & Trade Secrets/Pleadings & Arbitration (S.D.N.Y.). July 28, 2021, 5:17 PM. A federal district court in New York denied Amyris Inc.'s ...

19. Radiaction Medical Ltd. Secures Additional Patents in US and Japan - En-Route to ...

"As we are nearing commercialization, these patents strengthen our strategic IP assets and further our mission to provide a safe environment for ...

20. Speeding up the patent process in Brazil

A recent Supreme Court decision altered rules for patents in Brazil. While causing some consternation, the country's patent office has worked hard to ...

21. Eat Beyond Portfolio Company Nabati Foods Patents New Plant-Based Liquid Egg

Eat Beyond Portfolio Company Nabati Foods Patents New Plant-Based Liquid Egg. News provided by. Eat Beyond Global Holdings Inc. Jul 28, 2021 ...

22. How can Wi-Fi sense without sensors?

With over 105 patents filed and pending and 45+ patents granted worldwide, Origin Wireless Inc.'s Hex Home security system uses patented Wireless ...

23. Oppo conducts Reno 6 Series 5G trial at Jio's 5G lab: Here's all you need to know

It has deployed its 5G standard patents in over 20 countries and regions around the world and filed over 3,900 families of global patent applications, ...

24. Nokia v Oppo clash brings a big-ticket patent battle to Indonesia

... TRIPS and the Paris Convention and has a relatively new patent law (Law No 13 of 2016 concerning Patents, which replaced Law No 14 of 2001).

25. Extension of the TRIPS General Transition Period for Least Developed Countries: Effects on ...

... Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, as well as rules on the protection of trademarks, geographical indications, patents, ...

26. Danimer Scientific to Acquire Biodegradable Polymer Producer Novomer

Novomer also has an extensive intellectual property portfolio with more than 100 issued patents and over 140 patents pending. Novomer has ...

27. Why self-driving trucks aren't putting drivers out of work yet

Patents on self-driving technology have exploded in recent years. Of firms leading the way in terms of sheer volume, you'll recognize a leading search ...

28. Soleno Therapeutics Provides Corporate Update and Reports Second Quarter 2021 Financial ...

These patents extend protection of DCCR in the treatment of PWS to at least 2035 in all of these regions. A manuscript titled, “A Qualitative Methodology ...

29. Tesla Patent Reveals Cybertruck Design Inspiration And Inventors, Elon Musk's Name Notably ...

The patents are for ornamental design for a cab shell for pickup trucks which include windows. These drawings look somewhat similar to the back of the ...

30. TRUSTID Wins Judgments to Set the Record Straight

Lastly, the jury determined that Next Caller did not infringe the asserted TRUSTID patents. “We are deeply grateful to the judge, court staff, and jurors for ...

31. President Biden's Executive Order on Competition Signals Potential Changes Affecting Patents in ...

On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued “Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy” (the “Executive Order”). The Executive ...

32. Canon Patents Retractable Barrier That Protects its Mirrorless Sensors

Additionally, patents can take several years to show use in a finished product, especially in the camera industry. The full details on the patent can be ...

33. South Africa awards world's first AI-invented patent, but it may not be that big a deal

It's not often that a story about patents makes a publication like The Times. However, this morning's edition of the august British publication – often ...

34. Conception for Joint Inventors

by Dennis Crouch. Most patents involve two or more joint inventors who all claim to have contributed significantly to the invention. Conception of the ...

35. Suspending IP rights for COVID-19 vaccines will hurt patients | Opinion

If countries routinely invalidated patents on cutting-edge treatments, drug development would slow to a trickle. Soon, that would mean fewer new ...

36. Eat Beyond Portfolio Company Nabati Foods Patents New Plant-Based Liquid Egg

Eat Beyond Portfolio Company Nabati Foods Patents New Plant-Based Liquid Egg. Read full article. Wed, July 28, 2021, 6:00 AM ·3 min read.