Johnson & Johnson, the pharmaceutical giant, said yesterday it is five months away from starting human trials on a COVID-19 vaccine that would be offered
Category: Litigation
VC Decries Tech Businesses’ Lack of Patent Ethics: “Many lives will be lost”
A veteran venture capitalist and technology investor is calling for Congress to revise the patent laws and for companies to step up and embrace their
Lawyer aspires to copyright all possible melodies for the public domain – Not Everyone is Singing his Tune
Is it possible to copyright every possible melody? A lawyer says he has and that it is good for musicians and the music industry. Not
Patent Suits at a 10-Year Low; Cumulative 2019 Damages Awards Highest Since 2014
2019 saw the fewest patent suits filed since 2010. This occurred despite the increasing need to file suit in order to license in many areas
The Top 100 innovators spent $316 billion on research and generated 145,000 inventions
Six companies became top 100 global innovators for the first time in 2020. Fujikura (Japan), HTC (Taiwan), Immersion (US), Microchip Technology (US), Scheneider Electric (France)
U.S. Advances in Patents Category but still Trails Four Nations in 2020 U.S. Chamber Intl IP Index
While the U.S. still remains the top nation overall for intellectual property rights, lags behind Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Switzerland in the category Patents,
Apple is granted patent on invention that eliminates driver ‘blind spots’; auto market entry speculated
Apple Inc. was recently granted a patent on an invention designed to eliminate driver blind spots. At least one publication reported that it could signal
Intellectual Property Scholar and Educator, Adam Mossoff, is Named to the CIPU Board of Directors
Leading legal expert and proponent of patent quality and IP rights, Adam Mossoff, has been named to the board of directors of the Center for
Study: 45% of European GDP is attributed to IP-Active Industries, but ‘causal link’ is still lacking
63 million jobs – 29% of all jobs in the EU – are a product of IP-intensive industries, reports a joint EPO-EUIPO study that is
Defensive Aggregator says ‘World’s Most valuable’ patent is held by tiny Intertrust Technologies
Privately held Sunnyvale, CA-base, Intertrust Technologies, a digital rights management company, holds the world’s most valuable patent according to research conducted by defensive patent aggregator
Surgeon, inventor and philanthropist, Gary Michelson, to keynote the 2020 IP Awareness Summit
An orthopedic surgeon and one of medicine’s most successful inventors, Gary K. Michelson will deliver a keynote at the third Intellectual Property Awareness Summit on
Bill establishing a small claims court for copyright holders aces House, 410-6; EFF, others, not pleased
The United States House of Representatives has unanimously passed the CASE Act, which establishes a small claims court for musicians and other copyright owners that
