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EPO revokes controversial broccoli patent under new rules
Daily NewsMonday, 12 November 2018Daniel van Herck16 viewsRead more...The European Patent Office (EPO) has revoked a Bayer patent that covered traditionally bred broccoli adapted for the ease of harvesting. The patent, which was granted to Monsanto in 2013 and later sold to Bayer, covered plants, seeds and harvested severed broccoli heads that grow slightly higher in order to ease harvesting. An opposition to the patent was originally filed in 2014. No Patents on S ...
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Facebook’s Creepy Patent Suggests Friends By Wirelessly Sensing Phones
Daily NewsMonday, 12 November 2018Daniel van Herck9 viewsRead more...You might have used People You May Know feature where Facebook suggest people you should send that awkward friend request to. People have noticed how weirdly accurate that feature is and imagining ho ...
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Patent filing in autonomous driving accelerating rapidly, says EPO
Daily NewsMonday, 12 November 2018Daniel van Herck10 viewsRead more...The number of European patent applications related to autonomous driving has grown 20 times faster than filings for other technologies in recent years, according to a study by the European Patent Off ...
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Dennemeyer acquires German patent search start-up
Daily NewsMonday, 12 November 2018Daniel van Herck15 viewsRead more...Dennemeyer Group has bought Munich-based Octimine, a provider of semantic patent search, analytics and machine learning.
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USPTO Announces Access to Relevant Prior Art Initiative to Import Prior Art Citations into Patent Applications
Daily NewsMonday, 12 November 2018Daniel van Herck12 viewsRead more...On Thursday, October 25th, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a notice in the Federal Register announcing the implementation of the first phase of the Access to Relevant Prior Art (RPA) I ...
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Apple files patent for connecting moving electric vehicles to reduce driving load
Daily NewsMonday, 29 October 2018Daniel van Herck13 viewsRead more...Apple presented an electric vehicle feature via a patent application this week entitled "Peloton," which outlines designs to connect the batteries of moving EVs to reduce energy usage via load sharin ...
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Apple secures patent for triangular tessellation 3D printing method
Daily NewsMonday, 29 October 2018Daniel van Herck17 viewsRead more...Apple was granted a total of 46 patents today, including a patent for a 3D printing technology that uses triangular tessellation. The patent, which was initially filed in 2014, describes a process in ...
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EPO Provides Patentability Guidance for AI-based Applications
Daily NewsMonday, 29 October 2018Daniel van Herck17 viewsRead more...The European Patent Office (EPO) has provided further guidance for examination in relation to the patentability of inventions involving mathematical methods and computer programs. This updated guidanc ...
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Qualcomm handed a defeat in European iPhone patent infringement case
Daily NewsThursday, 18 October 2018Daniel van Herck31 viewsRead more...appleinsider Thursday, October 11, 2018 11:03 AM In a first anywhere for the ongoing legal fight between Qualcomm and Apple, a Munich regional court has rendered a final judgment in a Qualcomm patent ...
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Amazon patents Alexa tech to tell if you’re sick, depressed and sell you meds
Daily NewsThursday, 18 October 2018Daniel van Herck44 viewsRead more...Amazon has patented technology that could let Alexa analyze your voice to determine whether you are sick or depressed and sell you products based on your physical or emotional condition. The patent, ...