Intellectual property services firm Rouse, in partnership with IP valuation firm Inngot, recently launch Intangio, a patent assessment and valuation service on Ali Auctions, China’s largest online auction service and part of the e-commerce giant Alibaba Group....

The number of patents and applications published relating to bioinformatics and digital health has dramatically increased in recent years, particularly in the US and China, according to new research released today. The report, produced by IP firm Mewburn Ellis and...

The Court of Appeal today handed down its judgment in the combined appeals of FibroGen, Inc. and Astellas Pharma Inc., v Akebia Therapeutics Inc. and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. In a unanimous decision, Philips LJ, Birss LJ, and Sir Christopher Floyd found for...

Xiaomi Corporation, the third largest global smartphone manufacturer, has joined the Open Invention Network, the largest patent non-aggression community in history. Xiaomi is a consumer electronics and smart manufacturing company with smartphones and smart hardware...

TORONTO- Cybin Inc. (NEO:CYBN) (NYSE AMERICAN:CYBN) (“Cybin” or the “Company”), a biotechnology company focused on progressing psychedelic therapeutics, recently announced that it has filed a new non-provisional patent application in support of its ongoing drug...

Jont Cole joins from property giant JLL COO will drive strategic development and growth Leading intellectual property law firm Mathys & Squire has appointed the first Chief Operating Officer in its 111-year history. Mathys & Squire explains that the firm’s...

ByteDance, the maker of TikTok, Helo, and Resso, as well as platforms specific to the Chinese market – Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua – has joined Open Invention Network. As the maker of the leading global short video platform, ByteDance has joined the largest patent...

Moses & Singer LLP is pleased to announce the arrival of Milton Springut as a partner in its Intellectual Property practice. His longtime colleague Caroline Boehm also joins as special counsel. Springut brings more than 25 years of experience in all aspects of IP...

Last month the UK government launched a new Innovation Strategy, which seems to blend a long-term plan to boost private sector investment with increased annual public investment in R&D, in an attempt to put the UK at the front of the global innovation race and...

“It was only a matter of time before a Patent Office awarded an AI agent inventorship given both recent test cases and the growing ubiquity of Artificial Intelligence in the innovation lifecycle. That two have acted in such quick succession may be a sign of things to...

The Australian Federal Court has recently handed down a decision that an AI can be named as the inventor in a patent application. The patent application relates to two inventions: a beverage container having a fractal wall; and a signal beacon, both generated by DABUS...

Intellectual property (IP) officials in South Africa have made history in a landmark decision to award a patent that names an artificial intelligence (AI) as the inventor. The patent—which was filed by an international team of lawyers and researchers led by the...

By Richard Fawcett, senior associate at Powell Gilbert LLP In the recent Optis v Apple [2021] EWHC 1739 trial in the High Court of England & Wales, Apple ran a novel proprietary estoppel defense against Optis’ allegations of infringement of its Standard Essential...

With the European Commission acting as legislator and regulator, and the European Parliament and Council representing the European executive power, Brussels is home to some of the main European institutions as well as lobbyists. Early July, two ads portraying opposing...

Perkins Coie is pleased to announce that partners Ngai Zhang and Drew Schulte have joined the firm’s expanding Intellectual Property (IP) practice in the Washington, D.C., and New York offices, respectively. Ngai and Drew counsel on strategic patent prosecution with a...

LOT Network, the international community of the world’s leading high-tech companies committed to protecting its members from costly litigation from patent assertion entities (PAEs, also known as “patent trolls”), recently announced that Baraja, a LiDAR innovator and...

Loeb & Loeb is pleased to announce the arrival of Brent Babcock as a partner in its Patent Litigation & Counseling department and as the chair of the firm’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Trials practice group. Brent brings nearly three decades of patent...

State of innovation in electric vehicles, design challenges and opportunities uncovered by combining the power of unified IP with global research data insights Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the...

The judgement in the recent case of Claydon v Mzuri ([2021] EWHC 1007 (IPEC)) will stifle innovation and have unintended consequences, Jeff Claydon, CEO of Claydon Yield-o-Meter Limited, believes. The judgement related to the potential for prior disclosure during...

Huawei announced last week that it has reached a license agreement with a supplier of Volkswagen Group (“Volkswagen”). The agreement includes a license under Huawei’s 4G standard essential patents (SEPs), which covers Volkswagen vehicles equipped with wireless...