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Cancer Device Engineer Fears Broad Loss of Basic Research Funds will Weaken Public Health

July 22, 2025 Bruce Berman

Impending reductions in government funding for universities will force even the top research institutions to find new ways to support critical work. Replacing the funding

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44% of Top 100 University U.S. Patent Holders are Foreign Institutions; 8 of the Top 22

October 24, 2023 Bruce Berman

Almost half of the top 100 colleges, universities and research institutes that have been granted U.S. patents are located outside of America.  For the most

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Speakers from IBM, Moderna, MIT, Smithsonian Center, MassBio and Forbes for 2023 IP Awareness Summit

January 31, 2023 Bruce Berman

The Center for Intellectual Property Understanding has announced that it has thus far confirmed 20 speakers speakers from leading businesses, universities and organizations, as well as

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Rush to File Covid-Releated Patents is Slowing But Not Innovation; Ford, MIT and Harvard Tout New Products

August 10, 2021 Bruce Berman

With large numbers of patents already issued in the areas of testing, vaccine and protective masks, the race to patent new inventions that help to

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Chinese Universities Comprise 13% of Top 100 Academic Institutions Receiving U.S. Patent Grants

July 20, 2021 Bruce Berman

Many of China’s patents are generated by universities as opposed to businesses. In a socialist republic run by a single party that effectively means they

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Former AUTM head cautions exercising ‘march-in’ rights on Covid-related patents

May 8, 2020 Bruce Berman

Confiscating taxpayer-funded invention rights would damage the innovation ecosystem that has generated breakthrough therapies and enabled scientists to work so quickly on Covid-19. This is

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Gene-editing break-through: can a collision of science, ethics and (patent) ownership be avoided?

June 19, 2017 Bruce Berman

The USPTO decided in February that the rightful intellectual property owner of CRISPR in eukaryotes, a time-saving tool that makes it cheaper and easier to

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Startup mentored by Brody/Berman and Center for IP Understanding (CIPU) is LES Business Plan Winner

May 24, 2017 Bruce Berman

Takachar, a small business working with farmers in Kenya to develop an inexpensive, ecologic method for turning biomass (waste) into fuel, is the Global Winner

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Since founding Brody Berman Associates in 1988 Bruce has been working with IP holders, executives and investors, as well as more than 80 law firms and their clients. In 2016 he founded the Center for IP Understanding, an independent non-profit, www.understandingip.org. He has been on an IAM 300 Leading IP Strategist every year since 2011 and is a member of its Hall of Fame Academy.

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