How I would use AI to steal your design… and what you can do about it
To protect our designs, ideas, and innovations, we must think like an infringer. May AI allow bad actors to knock off your design… and get away with it? First, we need to understand AI-assisted design. Like all new tech, AI will follow Amara’s law. We overestimate the...
AstraZeneca challenges Axelpharm’s cancer drug patent
AstraZeneca is a world-renowned pharmaceutical company. It owns many patents in Russia and takes steps to protect them against encroachers. Its medicines are exempt from sanctions because they are mainly used for the life-preserving treatment of cancer. Axelpharm, a...
Calcutta High Court issues IP Division Rules
The Calcutta High Court recently adopted the much-awaited Intellectual Property Rights Division Rules, 2023 (Calcutta IPD Rules), making it the third High Court in India, after Delhi and Madras, to implement specialized regulations for IP matters. While the Calcutta...
USPTO issues final rule on Director Review of PTAB decisions
On October 1, 2024, the USPTO published a new final rule, Rules Governing Director Review of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions. 89 Fed. Reg. 79,744 (October 1, 2024). The final rule codifies many aspects of the PTAB’s revised interim Director Review...
Morgan Lewis deepens life sciences presence in London with two-partner hire
LONDON - September 2, 2024 - Morgan Lewis welcomes as partners in London Hiroshi Sheraton and Luciana Griebel, two accomplished lawyers focused on the life sciences industry. A veteran intellectual property (IP) litigator, Sheraton arrives from Baker McKenzie, and...
HGF launches forward-thinking and inclusive parental leave policy
This policy positions HGF as the first Intellectual Property firm in the UK to provide all eligible colleagues, irrespective of gender, with access to the best parental leave and pay offering including up to 52 weeks of leave with 26 weeks at full pay. Launching...
European IP firm aera joins the Rouse Group
One of the fastest-growing IP firms in Europe combines with the market leader in Asia to create a truly standout global offering. London - 22 August 2024 - Rouse, the leading International IP services business, today announces its merger with European IP consultancy...
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Avanci Broadcast launched as one-stop licensing platform for ATSC 3.0 standard
New platform includes more than 70% of ATSC 3.0 essential patent families and licensees responsible for vast majority of ATSC 3.0 televisions sold to date DALLAS, Texas, March 7, 2023 – Avanci, a leader in simplifying the sharing of advanced technologies, has launched...
The wonder materials driving battery innovation
Every aspect of the battery lifecycle is experiencing innovation which is pushing batteries towards being arguably the most important technology of the 21st century. For this reason, our recently published Battery Insights & IP Trends special report analyses...
A killer comma (,) that crashed Boeings’ patent
Boeing the US aerospace giant ended up losing a very crucial patent due to a misplaced comma in the patent claim. Background: The patent under question was EP1798 872 dealing with the method of handling aircraft communication. The method discloses the use of different...
Third largest semiconductor production equipment manufacturer joins Open Invention Network
Across the globe, governments are in a race to bring semiconductor manufacturing within their borders. The United States is providing an unprecedented $39 billion in government support to build new semi factories and to expand production. Why? Because chips are the...
Robert A. Matthews joins Leverage IP as its patent-law expert
Newest leader brings three decades of legal experience to IP consultancy Bridgewater, NJ (March 6, 2023) – Leverage IP, a global consultancy providing holistic IP strategy, unparalleled advising, and creative solutions to help companies benefit financially from their...
Cybin announces positive data from its CYB003 phase 1/2a trial and provides update on its CYB004 development program
- CYB003 Phase 1/2a interim data demonstrate rapid and short-acting effects; robust psychedelic effects at low doses; positive safety and tolerability profile; top-line efficacy data expected late Q3 2023 - - Initial findings from Phase 1 CYB004-E study suggest IV DMT...
Quarles expands Western US presence through combination with Adsero IP in Denver
February 27, 2023 (Denver) – The national law firm of Quarles & Brady LLP announced today its combination with Adsero IP, a leading intellectual property (IP) law firm in Denver, effective March 1, 2023. The opening of a Denver office marks Quarles’ second recent...
Turbulent times: Nike v Lululemon over FlyKnit patent portfolio
While trademark/trade dress and design patents are often used by sneaker brands to protect against similar sneaker designs released by competitors, utility patents have also been used to protect features of sneakers for over a hundred years. From Reebok’s patent for...
Semiconductor patents rise by 59% in five years to reach to record high
69,000 patents related to semiconductors were filed in the 2021/22 55% of global patents in 2021/22 were Chinese in origin UK lags behind other nations with just 0.26% of patents filed in the last year There have been a record 69,190 global patents for semiconductors...
Clarivate and KAIST Innovation Strategy and Policy Institute release report on the global AI chip innovation landscape
Providing key insights for building a sustainable industry ecosystem London, U.K., February 22, 2023 – Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in connecting people and organizations to intelligence they can trust to transform the world, and the KAIST Innovation...
Mishcon de Reya boosts its patent offering with latest Of Counsel hire
Mishcon de Reya is pleased to announce that Justin Lambert joined the firm's Intellectual Property team as Of Counsel on 20 February 2022. Justin joins from his boutique litigation firm, Lambert Hornby, and is a dual-qualified solicitor in Australia and the United...
Sterne Kessler publishes 2022 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis and Trends Report
Washington, D.C. (February 17, 2023) – Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox has released a new publication, 2022 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis and Trends. The report was edited by Director Tracy-Gene G. Durkin and authored by Directors Deirdre M. Wells,...
Avanci launches Aftermarket licensing program
Leader in licensing platforms for connected vehicles extends offering to aftermarket devices DALLAS, Texas, February 21, 2023 – Avanci, a leader in simplifying the sharing of advanced technologies in the connected vehicle sector, has launched Avanci Aftermarket, a...
Gulf Capital’s CWB merges with PETOŠEVIĆ, a leading east-European intellectual property services provider, to create a super-regional IP leader operating across 52 countries
This strategic merger and creation of an international IP firm reinforces Gulf Capital’s track record of building global leaders out of the GCC. (Dubai – February 21, 2023) – Gulf Capital (“GC”), one of the largest and most active private equity firms investing from...
Is ChatGPT for Patent Lawyers?
When I was young, Steve Jobs famously called computers “bicycles for the mind,” and the metaphor helped explain why computers are so useful to human beings. Bicycles help humans conserve energy from one step to the next, which is why they are the best walkers in the...
Updated guidelines for examination in the European Patent Office
As a European Patent Attorney, one of my go-to texts is the Guidelines for Examination in the European Patent Office (EPO), known to many as simply the “Guidelines”. The Guidelines are prepared by the EPO to direct the work of their employees, but they also provide...
Who owns the IP in ChatGPT?
Ever since the printing press was invented, tools have empowered the innovation and creativity of humans to earn a pecuniary right from the things that they create. ChatGPT is no less than the most advanced typewriter made freely available to us. It should be used...
Wait for it: New UP system will bring opportunities for SME innovators
After much inter-jurisdictional wrangling and several administrative false starts, we now have legal certainty that the new Unitary Patent (UP) and Unified Patent Court (UPC) regime will take effect on 1 June 2023. This has been caused by ratification by the German...
Clarivate Names Top 100 Global Innovators 2023
New report identifies consistent above-the-bar innovation performance, and reveals top 50 most cited research organizations from the Top 100 by blending insights on inventive activity and scientific discovery Clarivate, a global leader in connecting people and...
2022 Anaqua Analysis of USPTO Patenting Statistics
Patent grants decrease 8%, the steepest decline in more than a decade BOSTON, February 13, 2023 – Anaqua has released its annual analysis of USPTO patent statistics, using Anaqua’s AcclaimIP patent analytics software. According to the data, indicative figures for 2022...
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