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A Growing Number of Foreign Universities are Being Granted More U.S. Patents than those at Home

August 5, 2025 Bruce Berman

Four of the the top ten universities receiving U.S. utility patents are foreign and seven of the top 20. The number one U.S. patent recipient

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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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Nature Biotechnology Article Calls for Intellectual Property Training to be “Embedded into the Biomedical Education Process”

February 18, 2025 Bruce Berman

A recent article in the prestigious science journal, Nature Biotechnology, argues that implementation of intellectual property education in academic institutions can result in increased opportunities

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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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Season 3 of ‘Understanding IP Matters’ Premiere’s this Week: “Partnerships can Enable the U.S. to Maintain its Innovation Leadership”

October 16, 2023 Bruce Berman

The first episode of the third season of the popular podcast series, ‘Understanding IP Matters,’ drops on Wednesday with the focus on public-private technology partnerships,

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Report finds that rapid Covid-19 response was achieved because of IP rights, not in spite of them

December 14, 2021 Bruce Berman

Researchers’ unprecedented rapid response to the Covid-19 pandemic and that of the bio-pharmaceutical companies – which included sharing proprietary technology with many dozens of partners

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U.S. Trade Representative’s ‘Notorious Markets List’ cites a growing range of Intellectual Property pirates and counterfeiters

September 8, 2020 Bruce Berman

Commercial-scale copyright piracy and trademark counterfeiting are growing, whether they emanate from illegal online entities or physical locations within particular nations. They result in significant

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USTR warns of increasing attacks by China on US intellectual property, including cyber-attacks

January 8, 2019 Bruce Berman

A report released in late November the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) states that China appears to be stepping up its attacks

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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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EFF’s narrow position on university tech transfer is “wildly misguided”

November 22, 2016 Bruce Berman

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is attempting to paint a scarlet letter on universities with public funding who benefit from sharing discoveries with those best-equipped

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USC/Shoah’s $7m Patent License

July 27, 2010 Bruce Berman

Greater Good IP Insider has been following the $7 million 11-patent license covering digital search algorithms discovered by the USC/Shoah Foundation. University of Southern California

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