Patents on plants and animals derived from conventional breeding can be fully prohibited in Europe. This is the result of a verdict published by the Enlarged Board of Appeal, the highest legal body of ...
Credit card giant Visa has filed an application for a U.S. patent on a computer system that would convert physical dollars and other fiat currencies into digital versions, complete with denominations ...
Can AI be an inventor? According to a recent decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the answer seems to be no. There is more to this story, though, and we’ll need to push past the s ...
After VOIP-Pal filed near-simultaneous lawsuits against tech giants Facebook, Amazon, Apple, and Google, Twitter has turned the tables, filing a complaint for declaratory judgment against VOIP-Pal. Th ...
Cannabis business clients may soon face new patent-related risks. By Norman Ives and Morgan Moore It’s not uncommon to have a patent issued on certain fruits, vegetables and other plant varieties. In ...
China’s tech giants have been particularly active, with Huawei taking the top spot last year with 4,411 patent applications The Beijing government offers as much as 20 million yuan in subsidies for a ...
in April was the launch of the opposition procedure before the French Patent Office (“Institut National de la Propriété Intellectuelle” or “INPI”). This procedure is a new way to challenge the validit ...
While acknowledging an “apparent loophole” in the America Invents Act, a district court has permitted an accused-infringer-DJ-plaintiff to pursue counterclaims for patent invalidity—with no bar on lat ...
“Given the expanding uncertainty with the case law on U.S. patents—and whether, for example, they’ll protect the subject matter of a million (or even billion) dollar investment—U.S. investment in R&D ...
The concept was proposed two weeks ago by Costa Rican government officials amid mounting concerns that some Covid-19 medical products may not be accessible for poorer populations. By establishing a vo ...