Clarivate reveals Top 100 Global Innovators 2025
The Top 100 organizations generate $4.6 trillion in annual revenues, representing 4.4% of the global economy Clarivate Plc, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today revealed its 2025 ranked list of Top 100 Global Innovators – the organizations...
New continuation application fees: why and at what cost?
Earlier this year, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) instituted new fees related to the filing of continuation patent applications. As a refresher, a continuation application is a second or subsequent patent application filing that claims the benefit of an...
Register at Early Bird rate for ECTA 43rd Annual Conference ‘Bears on the Loose’ in Berlin!
Register now at Early Bird rates for the ECTA 43rd Annual Conference in Berlin on 18-21 June 2025! This year’s Conference 'Bears on the Loose' 🐻😎 celebrates Berlin’s heraldic bear and the city's vibrant atmosphere. With its melting pot of cultures, rich history, and...
Entrepreneur’s greedy eye casts at Apple’s pie
Apple Inc. is a company that hardly needs an introduction. Its assortment of iPhones are widely popular in Russia, and Apple holds countless patents to protect its technology. Entrepreneur Artashes Ikonomov filed and obtained patent No. 141791 in 2013 for a cell phone...
UK should move to making patenting of quantum computing easier: UK lags far behind Europe in IP law
The UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) may be discouraging innovation in Quantum Computing by making it harder to patent technology in this sector, says intellectual property law firm Mathys & Squire. That risks driving developers of Quantum Computing to...
PUMA v. EUIPO: Rihanna’s Instagram post invalidates shoe design
Patents are a golden shield not only for the inventors but also for the ever-growing corporate world. However, there is one mistake that many inventors make that could risk their chances of securing a patent. In this article, let's analyze anticipation laws of patents...
PTAB upholds validity of all claims of OpenSesame’s patent
OpenSesame is a leading-edge technology company located in Portland, Oregon. In 2010, it invented and filed a patent application for an unconventional remote learning system titled “Open and Interactive E-Learning System and Method.” After a thorough examination, that...
Key Charpentier/Doudna CRISPR patent upheld by China National Intellectual Property Administration
Patent CN201380038920.6 upheld in response to invalidation challenge Dublin, Ireland, 26 March 2024 – ERS Genomics Limited, which was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property co-owned by Dr Emmanuelle Charpentier, today...
Strengthening IP rights in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine to support EU accession
EU4IP, a new EU-funded cooperation project on intellectual property (IP) matters, was launched by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), in partnership with the National Intellectual Property Center of Georgia (Sakpatenti), the State Agency on...
Recent amendments in Indian Patent Rules 2024: enhancing patent procedure and protection
In the dynamic landscape of intellectual property rights, patents stand as pillars of innovation, providing inventors with exclusive rights to their creations. Patents not only incentivize inventors to bring their ideas to fruition but also foster economic growth by...
Report launched into UK’s IP-backed finance landscape
Greater access to IP-backed finance could help firms, especially SMEs, leverage their IP to scale and grow A new report launched in London today finds the UK meets the right conditions to make IP-backed lending to SMEs viable The report – produced by the World...
Watch this space: Apple Watch set for redesign following Masimo patent dispute
As previously reported, in October of 2023, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled that certain pulse oximetry features of the Apple Watch infringed two of Masimo’s patents. Along with the infringement holding, the ITC issued a limited exclusion order,...
The brick-making machine case: doctrine of equivalence in patent infringement cases
This article delves into the intricate legal analysis of the doctrine of equivalence in patent infringement cases, focusing on the recent judgment in Snpc Machines Private Limited v. Mr Vishal Choudhary by the Delhi High Court. The doctrine of equivalence plays a...
The state of incorporation by reference at the Federal Circuit post-Promptu
On February 16, 2024, the Federal Circuit reminded the bar that arguments cannot be incorporated by reference except in narrow circumstances. In a precedential order, the court chastised counsel whose brief had incorporated by reference an argument from a companion...
Proposed “reasonable pricing” march-in factor risks chilling innovation in attempt to leverage Bayh-Dole to lower drug prices
Businesses save record amount of corporation tax through Patent Box scheme: £1.4 billion in relief in just a year
USPTO issues inventorship guidance on AI-assisted inventions
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