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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's highest court upheld a patent on Wednesday on a gene sequence held by Human Genome Sciences related to its new lupus drug Benlysta... Read More »
On October 31st, the company Medtronic received US Federal Food and Drug Administration approval to treat Narrow Iliac arteries with the use of the Cobalt Chromium... Read More »
The United States has always been a leader when it comes to innovation and invention. However, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has become... Read More »
MADRID (Reuters) - A small Spanish tablet maker has won a patent infringement battle with Apple Inc in a rare victory against the U.S. company in its... Read More »
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA was abuzz with coffee-fueled conversation the weekend of Oct. 21-22nd as a very diverse bunch -... Read More »
Of the five senses (or six, if you’re a little boy in an M. Night Shyamalan movie) most people would agree that vision is their most valuable sense... Read More »
By Jim Finkle
(Reuters) - At least 48 chemical and defense companies were victims of a coordinated ... Read More »
More than ever, patents are big business. And more than ever, there are business that are exclusively concerned with patents. The polite term is... Read More »
The Federal Circuit has upheld a finding of patent infringement against a farmer who planted “next generation” Roundup Ready® soybean seeds derived... Read More »
Everyone hates driving in traffic. The stop and go. The lurch when you accelerate for a moment, then are forced to slam on your brakes when someone cuts into your... Read More »
By Kevin Krolicki and Emi Emoto
DETROIT/TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. patent records... Read More »
By Tarmo Virki, European Technology Correspondent
LONDON (Reuters) - Sony Corp... Read More »
Intellectual Ventures (IV), an invention and investment company founded by the former Chief Strategist and Chief Technology Officer of... Read More »
When we think of patent law, we often think of technology, engineering, and intellectual property. Rarely do we think of living organisms. In 1980, however, the... Read More »
I grew up as an avid book reader and frequent patron of my school or local library. Public libraries provided the wonderful service of loaning books for free. Yet, in ... Read More »
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Derry Smithone solution could be to re-introduce the concept of DRM and disable the content when the lending period expires for the lender's reading device
Oct 20, 2011
Samsung and Apple aren’t the only adversaries on the tech scene using intellectual property law against one another. That Google and Microsoft are bitter... Read More »
It has been a very good couple of years for nanotechnology. That much can be easily said in between last year's Nobel prize for graphene (which is one atom thin... Read More »
The America Invents Act (AIA) has significantly changed the processes available for prosecuting and challenging a patent. In this final section, I will outline these... Read More »
This is the middle article of a set of three on the effect of the America Invents Act. The first article discussed the First-Inventor-to-File system changes, the... Read More »
The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (P.L. 112-29) has changed the patent law landscape more thoroughly than any legislation since the Patent Act of 1952. The... Read More »