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A recent study published by SharpBrains found that the number of neuro-technology patents filed with the USPTO has significantly increased in recent years. From 2000... Read More »
A judge has ordered Motorola to pay $10.2M in damages for infringing four Fujifilm patents. The lawsuit, which was originally filed in May 2012, centered on patents... Read More »
Earlier this week Microsoft was granted US Patent 9,019,174 for a "wearable emotion detection and feedback system." The application, which was originally... Read More »
Earlier this week US ITC Administrative Law Judge Theodore Essex ruled that Microsoft and Nokia mobile products infringed two patents owned by InterDigital. The... Read More »
Kyle Bass' Coalition for Affordable Drugs has filed another IPR, this time directed at Biogen's US 8,759,393, which covers the multiple sclerosis drug... Read More »
In case you missed it, John Oliver included a segment on the US patent system in the latest episode of Last Week Tonight.
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Earlier this week Apple was granted a patent that would use contextual information such as time zone, ringer volume, and battery life to automatically determine... Read More »
Earlier this week the USPTO announced the 2015 Patents for Humanity winners. The award program was launched in February 2012 by the Obama White House and has since... Read More »
Earlier this week Google was awarded US Patent 9,002,942 - processing content spoilers, which discloses a system that scans for TV or movie "spoilers"... Read More »
Earlier this week Administrative Law Judge Thomas Pender, who is presiding over Nvidia's ITC patent case against Samsung and Qualcomm, returned a pretrial claim... Read More »
Earlier this week Kyle Bass and company filed more IPRs, this time targeting Dublin-based Shire Plc. The petitions are targeting Gattex, a treatment for short... Read More »
Google was recently awarded a patent for an exterior airbag system which could be automatically deployed is sensors detected an imminent crash with an object, such as ... Read More »
Earlier this week Apple secured a patent for a three sensor camera that can separately capture red, green, and blue wavelengths of light to help increase... Read More »
A recent WIPO study found that Huawei Technologies Co Ltd filed for the most international patents of any company in 2014. Second and third on the list were Qualcomm... Read More »
Just in time for March Madness, the team at ChicagoInno put together a full 68 team bracket based on the number of patents that each school filed for between... Read More »
Earlier this week a California judge invalidated four Hewlett-Packard patents that had been asserted in a lawsuit against competitor ServiceNow on the grounds that... Read More »
This past Monday the US Senate confirmed former Google executive Michelle Lee to head the USPTO. President Obama's nomination was approved by an unrecorded voice... Read More »
Last week NXP Semiconductors announced that it would buy Freescale Semiconductor for $11.8B. The proposed deal will create one of the strongest patent portfolios in... Read More »
The USPTO announced on Monday that its has eliminated its clandestine Sensitive Application Warning System (SAWS) program. SAWS, which was originally developed in... Read More »
Earlier this month Kyle Bass, the well-known manager of Dallas-based hedge fund Hayman Capital, fulfilled his promise of going after pharmaceutical patents with IPR... Read More »