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Written by Hyeongsu Rick Park and Kerry S. Taylor, Ph.D.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) terminated a patent interference proceeding between the... Read More »
Written by Daniel K. Yarbrough, Ph.D. and Jing Liu, Ph.D.
Once considered parasites, free riders, or “opportunistic pathogens,” in recent years the... Read More »
Written by Robert J. Hilton, Ph.D. and Jing Liu, Ph.D.
On January 13, 2017, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Amgen v. Sandoz, 794. f. 3d 1347 (Fed. Cir... Read More »
Written by Paul Chang, Ph.D. and Brenden Gingrich, Ph.D.
Anticipation by inherent disclosure requires that a single prior art reference necessarily includes the... Read More »
Written by Marc Chatenay-Lapointe, Ph.D. and Michael L. Fuller
On December 23, 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved SPINRAZA™ (nusinersen)... Read More »
A unique public-private partnership provides medical research centers and the patents they generate with a more efficient and rewarding path toward... Read More »
Written by Agnes Juang, Ph.D. and Scott Siera, Ph.D.
Once a European patent application has been granted, all patentees must then choose to validate the granted... Read More »
On September 20, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an opinion affirming the summary judgement that Abbott’s U.S. Patent No... Read More »
Unitary patents in Europe
The European unitary patent and Unitary Patent Court (UPC) are slated to go into effect in early 2017. These monumental changes will... Read More »
On July 14, 2016, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued new subject matter eligibility guidance for life science claims following a ruling by the Federal... Read More »
On July 5, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an opinion vacating the summary judgment of invalidity of U.S. Patent No. 7,604,929... Read More »
A new announcement last month from Monsanto Company could have tremendous impact in both agriculture and patent allocation for genetic modification of seeds for crop... Read More »
DARPA, responsible for advanced research for the DoD, recently engaged a team of Harvard-led researchers to explore the feasibility of creating “soft”... Read More »
Ever forget to take your morning pills? Or can’t remember if you have to take the blue pill today or the yellow one? Suddenly, life just got a lot... Read More »
Engineered skin and muscle produced like spools of tape might sound like science fiction, but it’s not. Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed... Read More »
Vaccines are designed to mimic aspects of the microbe they hope the help the body build immunity to. Typically, this means dead or weakened versions of the microbe... Read More »
Any bodybuilder knows that building muscle requires exercise to encourage the muscles to grow. Now, scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have determined... Read More »
Recently, Washington University at St. Louis researchers employed a novel holographic technique to see inside tissue. By recording what happens to scattered light... Read More »
This week saw some changes in the Patexia’s content. One of the main changes is that your truly will be covering the bulk of the news developments -- this also... Read More »
Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, along with Scripps Research Institute and Sanford-Burnham Institute, have developed synthetic blood... Read More »