Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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Bruker Corporation and 10x Genomics have announced a global settlement that puts an end to their long-running and highly publicized patent litigation, including multiple proceedings in the United States, Germany, and before the European Unified Patent…
Try typing COVID in your search engines and you will likely get billions of results. Meanwhile a bit more than 2 years before, this and the coronavirus word were practically unknown. As Einstein once said “In the middle of difficulty lies…
Especially now with the COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver debate, it comes to our mind the relationship between patent system and access to medicine. As in all over fields where intellectual property protection exists, without appropriate patent protection…
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) quietly increased the examiners’ arsenal by slipping a new rejection into the latest revision of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (“MPEP”) released last month. One of the…
The United States District Court of Western District of Washington entered a judgment in a trade secret case, Verasonics, Inc. v. Alpinion Medical Systems Co., Ltd. (Case No. 2:14-cv-01820-JCC). The district court confirmed the final arbitration award,…
When we think of patent law, we often think of technology, engineering, and intellectual property. Rarely do we think of living organisms. In 1980, however, the Supreme Court ruled that man-made organisms could be patented by the scientists who created…
