The United Kingdom’s new Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Act 2017 (the Act) was recently granted royal assent and is set to come into force in October 2017. The Act should make it easier ...
than 40 billion yuan ($6.42 billion) on R&D over the past five years. According to a report from the World Intellectual Property Organization in March, ZTE filed 2,309 Patent and Cooperation Treaty
Car maker Toyota has made available nearly 6,000 patents relating to hydrogen fuel cells royalty free, in a bid to popularise the manufacturing of hydrogen powered cars. Speaking at the 2015 Consumer ...
receives an invention patent or a new plant variety. Once the service invention has been commercialized or industrialized, the employee will then receive at least 5 percent of the annual profit or at
“good cause” to do so. Unfortunately, when it comes to patent cases, courts routinely allow [PDF] parties to file entire documents under seal, without any public-redacted version being made available.
identifies U.S. Patent No. 9559532, titled Charge Rate Modulation of Metal-Air Cells as a Function of Ambient Oxygen Concentration. Issued this January, it protects a method of charging a metal-air battery
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Smart phone maker BlackBerry has settled its dispute with Typo Products over patents and trade dress related to handheld keyboards. Under the terms of the settlement, Typo will stop selling keyboards ...
A lawyer who accused civil liberties group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) of defaming his character has withdrawn his lawsuit against the organisation’s “stupid” patent blog post. On June 5
combination of steps using unconventional rules for speech timing and pronunciation addresses patent eligible subject matter. McRO, No. 2015-1080, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 16703 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 13, 2016