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18 hours ago | News
According
to recent data released by Google, the search engine giant has logged
more than 2.5 million requests in the last 11 months to remove links
believed to be violating Microsoft’s copyrights. This exceeded the
number of complaints about material produced by entertainment companies
pushing for tougher online piracy laws.
May 1 | News
Industrial
biotechnology companies rely heavily on patents to attract investment
to fund R&D. The recent America Invents Act stands to have a
significant impact on technology innovators such as biotech firms, and
two recently published papers from patent law experts help explain the
extent of these shifts.
Apr 20 | News
EOS announced that it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Phenix Systems. The lawsuit alleges infringement of U.S. Patent Nos. 5,753,274 and 6,042,774 through the manufacture, sale, and use of the PXL, PXM, PXS, and PXS Dental product lines from Phenix in the U.S.
Apr 17 | News
Google
and Oracle faced off in court in San Francisco on Monday, with Oracle
intending to rely heavily on Google’s own internal emails to build its
case. The dispute hinges on Oracle's allegations that Google's widely
used Android software for mobile devices infringes on copyrights and
patents that Oracle acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems Inc. for
$7.3 billion in 2010.
Apr 9 | News
In
a reflection of how patents have become a hot commodity in the
high-tech industry in the last few years, AOL Inc. has agreed to sell
800 of its patents and license others to Microsoft Corp. for about $1.06
billion in cash. The news sent AOL shares to their highest level in a
year.
Apr 2 | News
Last
Friday, the National Science Foundation held a congressional briefing
to call attention to its research successes, particularly the process of
bringing relevant fundamental research from the laboratory to the
marketplace. Particular attention was called to Small Business
Innovation Research grant beneficiaries, some of whom shared their
success stories at the briefing.
Mar 27 | News
The
Supreme Court this week threw out a lower court ruling allowing human
genes to be patented. The court overturned patents belonging to Myriad
Genetics Inc. of Salt Lake City on two genes linked to increased risk of
breast and ovarian cancer.
Mar 16 | News
According
to a recent study by a University at Buffalo economist, firms that make
a previously patented innovation accessible to competitors increase
overall likelihood of improving upon that breakthrough while also
raising profits for the original innovator and market welfare. Further,
the practice of free-licensing may correspond to an evolutionary step in
the study of patents and their effects on innovation.
Mar 7 | News
Financially
troubled Proview Electronics Co., a computer monitor and LED light
maker, says it registered the iPad trademark in China and elsewhere more
than a decade ago and wants Apple to stop selling or making the popular
tablet computers under that name. Whatever the outcome, the dispute
highlights the rising stakes of the trademark name game in the
increasingly lucrative China consumer market, one that most global
companies cannot afford to miss out on regardless of the risks.
Feb 27 | News
The
National Science Foundation and the U.S. Census Bureau has revamped and
expanded their Business R&D and Innovation Survey, which
collects information from a nationally representative sample of about
40,000 companies. The results indicate that trademarks and trade secrets
are the most important form of intellectual property protection, ahead
of copyrights and patents.
