“A Vaccine for the World”: U.S. Scientists Develop Low-Cost Shot to Inoculate Global South

As COVID cases skyrocket, we speak to Dr. Peter Hotez at Texas Children’s Hospital about the Omicron surge, as well as his groundbreaking work developing an affordable patent-free coronavirus vaccine. Last week the Indian government gave emergency...

What to watch for in patent law in 2022

This year could bring big shifts in patent law, with a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case about patent eligibility, a new U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director, and significant changes to the PTO's Patent Trial and Appeal Board all potentially...

U.S. government must face patent case over armored vehicles

The U.S. government and defense contractors Oshkosh Corp and General Dynamics shouldn't have been allowed to escape claims that they infringed another contractor's patents for an armored vehicle, a U.S. appeals court said Friday.

Quest Diagnostics Investments LLC v. Hirshfeld (Fed. Cir. 2021)

By Donald Zuhn –- Earlier today, the Federal Circuit affirmed the final determination by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board finding claims 1, 2, and 4-14 of U.S. Patent No. 8,409,862 unpatentable as either...

PTAB Sets Motions and Times in Broad vs. Sigma Interference No. 106,133

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Following a telephone conference held on August 16th (a transcript of which can be found here) between the Board and representatives of Junior Party the Broad Institute, Harvard University, and MIT (collectively, Broad) and...

The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) - Intellectual Property - UK

The Patent Cooperation Treaty is an international agreement under the Paris Convention to promote international cooperation in the field of patents.

Beauty patents 2021: Smart devices, next-gen CBD actives and naturals

This year saw a raft of patent filings from industry heavyweights, including L’Oréal, Unilever, Colgate-Palmolive and Estée Lauder. Here, CosmeticsDesign-Europe rounds up our coverage of this year’s patent-worthy innovations.

Europe’s highest court to revisit the allowability of combination SPCs - Carpmaels & Ransford - Law Firm

How should Article 3(c) be applied to an SPC for a combo-product where the patent already supports an SPC for a mono-product?

Raphael Pharmaceutical (RAPH): Researching & Developing Medicinal Cannabinoids Based IP

Raphael Pharmaceutical is investing in the research and development of intellectual property based on medicinal cannabis. Read more.

Covid-19: Wealthy states and pharma companies catastrophically failed to ensure equal access to vaccines in 2021

Billions of people have been left without life-saving medicines this year

Opinion | Vaccine Apartheid Shows Global Injustice Is Very Bad for Public Health

"It is time for rich-country governments and the pharmaceutical companies whose interests they serve to share vaccine doses equitably. Until everyone has access to a Covid-19 vaccine, no one is safe."

Noam Chomsky: Corporate Patents & Rising Anti-Science Rhetoric Will Prolong Pandemic

Today, a special broadcast: an hour with Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author, who just turned 93 years old. Chomsky spoke to Democracy Now! prior to the discovery of the Omicron coronavirus variant, but he...

Yle News' 15 most-read stories of 2021

Another year has nearly passed and news about Covid dominated the headlines as well as the attention of readers. 

AT&T Gets “Favorable” IRS Ruling on Discovery-WarnerMedia Merger

The transactions in the so-called Reverse Morris Trust deal are "expected to be tax-free to stockholders of the company for U.S. federal income tax purposes."

Microsoft's GitHub Can't Get New 'Octocat' Trademark - Law360

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board is refusing to let Microsoft's GitHub add another trademark registration for its 'Octocat' mascot, ruling the company failed to show that consumers link the name to training services.