Confessions of a “Human Guinea Pig”: Professor Quits Vaccine Trial over Moderna’s Corporate Greed

Jeremy Menchik, a self-described “human guinea pig” who volunteered for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine trials, dropped out to protest the company’s greed in reaping profits from the ongoing pandemic while doing little to resolve global vaccine...

John Nichols on How “Coronavirus Criminals & Pandemic Profiteers” Hurt World’s Response to COVID-19

We speak with The Nation’s national affairs correspondent John Nichols on the occasion of his new book, “Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis,” which takes aim at the CEOs and political...

Fourth vaccination jab to be offered to particularly vulnerable groups, confirms health authority - The Post

However, the elderly might have to wait a bit, according to Sundhedsstyrelsen head Søren Brostrøm, who claims they are well protected by the booster

Profits Over People: Why Weren’t the Vaccine Manufacturers Nationalized?

On April 6, 1917, the day the Senate ratified the declaration of war with Germany, Pres. Woodrow Wilson exercised a provision of the Radio Act of 1912 that enabled nationalization during a war; the Navy physically acquired radio companies,...

BRAIN Biotech AG: BRAIN-Engineered-Cas (BEC) Considered a Patentable Technology | MarketScreener

The World Handled A 'Wordle' Ripoff Just Fine Without Any IP Action

In the video game space, it has become commonplace to see creators freak out over "rip-offs" and "clones" of their games when the targets of their ire are actually not rip-offs or clones at all. This typically comes down to the all...

EU Says 'Premature' to Have Urgent WTO Meeting on Covid-19

"The pandemic hasn't lasted long enough for the E.U.?"

EPO Has Patent Management System (PMS), But You Must be a Microsoft Customer and Run Malicious, Back-Doored Operating System

The EPO has been outsourced to Microsoft, an American company, and it moreover demands that people adopt a hostile operating system of Microsoft in order to use the EPO's official Patent Management System (PMS)

Canada’s patent dispute over cherry tree plant moves to trial

The Canadian government will be able to pursue its allegations of plant patent infringement against two US fruit companies at trial, a federal court in Washington has determined.

Strict US written description requirement applied to CAR-T-cell therapy (Juno v Kite)

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Europe: key patent issues counsel should monitor this year

Between AI inventorship, SEPs, and the UPC, there’s plenty to keep European attorneys busy in 2022

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. v. Accord Healthcare, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2022)

By Kevin E. Noonan -- When does the absence of evidence turn into evidence of absence, and when does such absence amount to an adequate written description of the absence of a step of a method claim? This is a question that comes readily to mind...

Strategic IP Considerations of Batteries and Energy Storage Solutions | JD Supra

The lithium-ion battery, introduced commercially in 1991, revolutionized the consumer electronics industry. Compared with older battery technologies,...

Friday Fantasies

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Dennis Crouch, Joined by Gene Quinn (Watchtroll), Still Attacking PTAB to Protect Patent Trolls and Software Patents

The attacks on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and those who enable PTAB have not ended; instead, these attacks have intensified again because the Supreme Court will weigh in soon

[Conference Report] Patents, truth, PCT and more at the UIC School of Law International IP Practice Seminar

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