Yesterday's Top Patent News

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Dec 18th 2025

1. Japan to speed up price cuts for drugs with expired patents - Nikkei Asia

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TOKYO -- Japanese officials plan to speed up reductions of government-set prices for drugs with expired patents in a bid to encourage ...

2. John Grevich - Bakken Young Funeral Home - River Falls and New Richmond Wisconsin

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He holds at least 20 patents signed over to Doboy with his last patent March 14th 2013. John was not only a successful inventor but a generous man ...

3. Biofrontera Inc. Completes Transfer of Ameluz and RhodoLED FDA approval and ...

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... patents, 10 US patent applications, and 19 patent filings or registered designs outside of the US. The registration of the assignment to ...

4. Regeneration Biomedical Strengthens IP Portfolio with Direct-to-Brain Wnt-Activated Stem ...

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This patents our 'secret sauce'. Together with our other patents, it secures the durability of our platform and our commitment to protecting our ...

5. Patently obvious: How inventions interact with emerging technologies - HWL Ebsworth

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In Grant v Commissioner of Patents,9 the Full Court of the Federal Court held that intellectual information such as a mathematical algorithm, working ...

6. Case: Patents/Anticipation & Obviousness (P.T.A.B.) - Bloomberg Law News

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Case: Patents/Anticipation & Obviousness (P.T.A.B.) ... The Patent Trial and Appeal Board said that some challenged claims of HUXWRX Safety Co. LLC's ...

7. Case: Patents/Obviousness (P.T.A.B.) - Bloomberg Law News

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Case: Patents/Obviousness (P.T.A.B.). December 18, 2025, 4:25 PM UTC. Bloomberg Law Automation. The Patent Trial and Appeal ...

8. Case: Patents/Procedure (Fed. Cir.) - Bloomberg Law News

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... patents, and reversed the denial of a new trial on willful infringement for one patent. Learn more about Bloomberg Law or Log In to keep reading ...

9. Idaho's Anti-Troll Law Takes Aim at Federal Court Complaints: Federal Circuit Punts on Preemption

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The underlying dispute began when Katana sued Micron in the Western District of Texas for infringement of three (now expired) semiconductor patents.

10. The FDA Patent History of Asthma Inhalers - Petrie-Flom Center

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These patents cover the device itself, or components thereof but not ... FDA law requires the sponsor of a new drug to disclose information about ...

11. Patents and Intellectual Property in Psychedelic Medicine - Prohibition Partners

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Patents cannot be applied to first-generation psychedelic compounds, as the original intellectual property protections expired decades ago.

12. Ankar raises $20M to expand AI-powered patent operating system - SiliconANGLE

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Artificial intelligence operating system for patents startup Ankar.ai Ltd. today revealed that it has raised $20 million in new funding to grow ...

13. Ford patents a new way to display multiple screens within one screen - Supercar Blondie

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Ford patents a new way to display multiple screens within one screen · Ford has filed a patent for a single screen with a dual display · Physical ...

14. Canada lags on patents right where Ottawa is placing its biggest bets - The Logic

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For AI in particular, Ottawa should encourage companies to file patents, he said, even though many firms feel the technology moves too quickly for ...

15. Ineffective Retroactive Amendment of Patent Assignment Dooms $20 Million Damages Verdict | Akin

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... patents at the time it filed suit and therefore lacked standing. The two patents at issue are directed to surgical instruments used in knee ...

16. Ohio's innovation shows federal funds for research pay off | Opinion - Akron Beacon Journal

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Before Bayh-Dole, the federal government held most patents generated from federally funded research, but 95% of the 28,000 patents were never licensed ...

17. Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical patents new KIF18A inhibitors - BioWorld

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To read more on related topics, click on one of the words below. BioWorld Science Cancer Patents. KEYWORDS KIF18A inhibitors ovarian cancer Shanghai ...

18. New LDHA inhibitors disclosed for autoimmune diseases - BioWorld

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To read more on related topics, click on one of the words below. BioWorld Science Immune Patents ... Novel agents for treating autoimmune diseases ...

19. The 50-Hectare Lie in the Iloilo Strait On April 25, 2024, bureaucracy ... - Facebook

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... patents granted on November 7, 1990, were issued on that date, covering 50 hectares – 500,000 square meters – of the Iloilo Strait. These are ...

20. BREAKING: Sisvel announces new SME fund for its IoT pool - IAM Media

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Related Topics · European Union · FRAND · IP licensing · International · Internet of Things · Licensing · Patent pools · Patents ...

21. Meet this year's IP Hall of Fame inductees – Rochelle Dreyfuss - IAM Media

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Related Topics · Copyright · IP public policy · OECD · Patents · Trademarks · United States of America.

22. Nintendo Has Finally Won a Wii Remote Patent Lawsuit It's Been Fighting for 15 Years, or ...

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... been fighting since 2010, over an unofficial controller that infringed on the company's patents.

23. Gaming Industry IP News: Electronic Arts makes patents available for developer use ... - JD Supra

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These patents were all issued in the last three years and focus on “grapple assist” (e.g., helping players transition between moves in fighting games) ...

24. Practical IP Lessons From the Field: Field Trials, Trade Secrets, and the Hydrogen Horizon

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... patents after public disclosures, how to safeguard trade secrets amid employee mobility, and how digital tools such as AI and remote operations ...

25. Northeast Louisiana native earns national honor for life-saving cancer work - KNOE

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Dr. Quincy Brown holds 27 patents for technologies he's designed. ... COLUMBIA, La. (KNOE) - A Columbia native is being recognized at the highest level ...

26. Streaming and Virtualization: The Converging IP Crisis - Lexology

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A single streaming transaction may implicate dozens of patents: multiple codec patents (H.264 requires licensing from MPEG LA; newer codecs like HEVC ...

27. Assessing the inventiveness of pharmaceutical formulation patents in China - Lexology

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This decision offers a real-life example of the inventive step assessment in pharmaceutical formulation patents. The invalidation decision used a ...

28. Playing the UPC game: Hoffmann Eitle responds to market shake-up

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If you're on the SEP owner side, you can encourage the client to enforce his patents,” he says. It's not just the headhunters driving the new ...

29. Hogan Lovells, Cadwalader to merge in 'largest combination in history'

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In London, the combined firm will be among the top 10, with nearly 600 lawyers. Topics. NewsUnited StatesEuropeUnited KingdomPatentsTrademarks ...

30. United Arab Emirates University awarded 50 patents by United States Patent and ...

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UAEU has secured more than 50 patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 2025, reinforcing its status as a leading ...

31. Brunei's Approach To Crypto-IP Rights: Coining Patents For Blockchain Innovations

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Intellectual property rights (IPRs) like patents, copyrights and trade secrets can provide a legitimate way to protect and commercialize blockchain- ...

32. Book Review: "The Patent Wars" By Fred Warshofsky (1994) - Mondaq

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U.S. patents; Non-U.S. patents. Each of these spaces is valid in its own right. Each is essential to global innovation. But they are separated by ...

33. First Institutions Under Squires: Trends, Impact of Stipulations, and Practice Pointers

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... patents at issue were less than two years old. In the -01215 proceeding, the petitioner highlighted how the challenged patent, though older, had ...

34. Fintel Announces Allowance of Fourth U.S. Patent Covering Eligibility Verification and ...

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... patents and published applications (see Fintel's full patent portfolio: https://fintel.com/patents/). U.S. Pat. Nos. 11,962,595; 11,025,630; 9,906,535.

35. TTUHSC cancer researcher honored by National Academy of Inventors - Odessa American

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“This honor is a truly fitting recognition of his extraordinary impact.” A co-inventor on multiple issued and pending patents, Reynolds, a TTUHSC ...

36. Biofrontera Inc. Completes Transfer of FDA Approvals and Intellectual Property for Ameluz ...

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Biofrontera Inc. has transferred FDA approvals and patents for Ameluz® and RhodoLED® lamp series, en.

37. Ankar Raises $20 Million in Series A | The SaaS News

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Ankar, a London, UK-based startup that uses AI to streamline the process of obtaining and managing patents, has secured $20 million in Series A ...

38. Flooring maker Shaw sues Chattanooga's Tuftco

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A subsidiary of flooring maker Shaw Industries is suing a Chattanooga-based company, Tuftco, alleging it infringed on two patents associated with ...

39. Starseed acquires two patents related to AI-based article writing, bringing its total to five.

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With this, Starseed now has a patent portfolio of five, encompassing platform- and cultural-specific technologies in addition to existing patents for ...

40. PATENT—D. Del.: Dismissal denied in web crawler patent dispute - VitalLaw.com

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... be invalid for being directed at an abstract idea because the plaintiff plausibly alleged the patents recited technologic...

41. PATENT—Fed. Cir.: Attorney fee award to Vizio affirmed in infringement suit - VitalLaw.com

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... patents and noncompliance with the patent marking statute. Further, the entity was found to have litigated in an unreasonable manner by ignoring ...

42. PATENT—Fed. Cir.: Evenflo's infringement of two Wonderland Switzerland child car seats ...

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... patents, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed the verdict that both patents were infringed. In doing so, the appellate ...

43. Tesla Patents Starlink Antenna Integration in Vehicle Roofs for Remote Connectivity

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SpaceX's earlier patents for custom satellite antennas further support the idea of tailored hardware for automotive use. Analysts point out that this ...

44. Quantum innovation accelerating but funding gaps stall commercial shift - World IP Review

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18 December 2025NewsPatentsLiz Hockley. Quantum innovation accelerating but funding gaps stall commercial shift.

45. Submissions open for IP Nexus Program in India - fundsforNGOs

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Patent holders with patents that are filed, published, under prosecution, or granted. Startups with technologies ready for licensing, co ...