#patents
Another #UPC #Order considering whether time limits should be consolidated when different defendants were served on different dates - in this case it was exceptionally allowed but that will not be the case in future generally.
More controversially, but specifically because of the manner that this particular Statement of Claim was worded, service was considered complete in the absence of annexes filed later containing supporting evidence.
I have written a report of the first detailed #UPC provisional injunction decision. I am surprised that neither the Court nor the Defendants (it seems) had a problem with the case being filed before the patent was granted.
https://eipamar.com/en/knowledge-hub/article/10x-genomics-v-nanostring/
My most controversial take (in the last footnote) is that the Court has got the deadline for appeal wrong. This relates to my earlier terminological musings as to what is a "Decision" and what is an "Order".
Global research-and-development (R&D) investment works out to $1,286 per capita per year in high-income countries and just $42 in low and middle income countries.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02998-4
The article focuses on "benevolent #patent extension" as a partial remedy. "An inventor who applies to patent a ‘benevolent discovery’ — one that targets LMICs’ needs — [can] offset the R&D costs by extending another patent, for a ‘non-essential’ product."
The #UPC is not a very transparent system. Party submissions are not automatically publicly available - they have to be requested. The first two such requests have been rejected. It seems that a real interest in access by the requester needs to be demonstrated. This is a huge shame (albeit that this does appear to be what the current rules of procedure envisage)
Copyrights, patents, and trademarks are the modern human version of marking your territory.
(1/2)
When #patents become a chokehold on scientific, technological, or (inter)national economic development, they should either be voided or reduced to such an extent, that they only generate a negligible revenue stream from a macroeconomic perspective.
With regard to the climate catastrophe, humanity we have no efficiency gains to waste.
Climate change is irreversible. Each ton of CO2 reduction counts.
Patents should only provide an incentive for development is as far as they..
Effects of the #OpenAccess mandate at the US Department of Energy (#DOE): "Articles subject to the mandate were not cited more frequently by other academic papers" but were cited 42% more often in #patents, which the authors take as a "proxy for technological development." Among the "primary beneficiaries" of the policy were "small firms" or those "with historically low access to scientific research."
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(23)01817-5
@gsuberland @soatok About ten years ago #LinkedIn acquired a portfolio of #FactCheck automation #patents: https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2014/linkedin-acquires-the-far-reaching-portfolio-of-fact-checking-patents/
It sure would be nice if they brought them to bear on their think-piece influencers instead of encouraging them to vomit #AI-augmented #DunningKruger-isms: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1517763
This Bill Would Revive The Worst #Patents On #Software—And Human Genes https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/bill-would-boost-worst-patents-software-and-human-genes
This Bill Would Revive The Worst Patents On Software—And Human Genes
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/bill-would-boost-worst-patents-software-and-human-genes
My old Mastodon server is closing, so I'll do a new #Introduction here! I'm a #LawProf at Stanford, researching & teaching about #Patents, #IP, and #Innovation Law. I have a free patent law casebook at patentcasebook.org, and I'm currently working on projects related to university tech transfer, equity in inventorship, patent disclosure doctrine, and medical device incentives. I'm still figuring out the post-Twitter world and am also on #Bluesky.
AstraZeneca refused to pay full bonus to US remote worker, lawsuit claims -- Third time might be the charm for Alvotech's Humira biosimilar -- Roche scores—again—in hemophilia drug patent case against Takeda -- See more on our front page news http://bit.ly/w28kSd #astrazeneca #remotework #legal #employmentlaw #alovtech #humira #abbvie #fda #biosimilars #roche #genenetech #takeda #patents #pharma #pharmanews #biotech #biopharma #biotechnology #cafepharma
The Federal Circuit just released what I think is its first precedential decision on enablement since the the Supreme Court's decision in Amgen v. Sanofi. For those outside the chemical arts, the biggest takeaway from the case, Baxalta v. Genentech, is this statement: "We do not interpret Amgen to have disturbed our prior enablement case law, including Wands and its factors."
https://cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-orders/22-1461.OPINION.9-20-2023_2193254.pdf
Chinese tech rivals #Huawei and #Xiaomi have put aside differences to form a "united front" in the battle for the lucrative high-end #smartphone market.
Their patents cooperation will pose a formidable new challenge to key competitors such as the Empire’s global champions, #Apple and #Samsung.
"Huawei Technologies and Xiaomi Corp, two of China’s largest smartphone vendors, have set aside their intellectual property (IP) dispute to forge a global patent cross-licensing deal that covers multiple communications technologies including 5G, which could help bolster the expansion initiatives of both companies."
#Technology #Patents #Sanctions
www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/art…
It's time to register for the 9th Annual Mosaic #IP #Law & #Policy conference Oct. 27-28 @ #UICLaw & on-line #patents #trademarks #copyright #tradeSecret
https://iipsj.org/programs/annual-mosaic-conference/
🍈 🍉 "In Europe, the plant variety protection (PVP) law guarantees that breeders can use all conventionally-bred varieties to breed & market improved varieties... but patents can be used to hamper or block access to biodiversity needed by all breeders. If such #patents are granted, only big companies can survive in the long-term, and they will then decide what is grown / harvested...what food is marketed at which price." Despite this, the EPO has upheld BASF's 🍉-patent. 👿
https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/watermelon
In good news: It's Juicy Whip v. Orange Bang day
New Nintendo patent could point to fancy drift-free sticks
Drift be gone?
https://www.vooks.net/new-nintendo-patent-could-point-to-fancy-drift-free-sticks/
#Switch #JoyCon #Patents
Diese Woche sind wir in Boston beim IPO Annual Meeting vertreten (IPO steht für „Intellectual Property Owners Association“), um internationale Kontakte zu pflegen und neue zu knüpfen.
Außerdem um uns über die jüngste Rechtsprechung zur Formulierung und Auslegung von Patentansprüchen zu informieren. Auch die Schutzmöglichkeiten von #AI Erfindungen in den USA stehen im diesjährigen Fokus.
A new VALVE hardware device received a radio certification in South Korea 🔍 👓 🔎
World's about to get a new VR-headset from this force behind Steam? :thinkhappy:
Valve Index cert # was 1007.
Steam Deck cert # was 1010.
This still "X" one is 1030.
What do YOU think?
=> https://arca.live/b/vrshits/85704013
#Valve #VR #headset #speculation #news #evidence #patents #certification #SouthKorea #Steam #devices #gaming #virtualreality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xr9X6cbQ68
This is one of many deleterious results of #patents & #intellectualproperty BS.
Ideas are neither scarce (your use of my idea does not prevent me from using it at the same time). So there is no conflict in the use of ideas.
Patents and IP are illegitimate uses of force (state force, unsurprisingly).
Contrary to what its defenders say, IP does not promote innovation, it promotes stagnation.
Slashdot: Microsoft Patents Sensor-Filled, AI-Assisted Backpack https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/09/01/2315228/microsoft-patents-sensor-filled-ai-assisted-backpack?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #Tech #slashdot #Technology #patents
Microsoft Patents Sensor-Filled, AI-Assisted Backpack - Microsoft has patented an AI-powered backpack design featuring a plethora of senso... - https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/09/01/2315228/microsoft-patents-sensor-filled-ai-assisted-backpack?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #patents
Really enjoyed this piece about how using the term "Intellectual Property" causes harm, when trying to think about the problems with very different types of laws, such as patent laws, copyright laws, and trademark laws. The term "Intellectual Property" incorrectly and falsely puts non-economic human problems into an economic perspective.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.en.html
#ip #law #intellectualproperty #patents #copyright #trademark #rms
My colleague has analysed the first order of the Unified Patent Court leading to a provisional injunction against a defendant. An interesting question - might the defendant actually have been in a better position if it had not filed a protective letter?
https://eipamar.com/en/knowledge-hub/article/provisional-injunction-granted-by-the-UPC/
Ugh - #patents are like #domainNames on steroids.
You sit on them, doing nothing with them, yet you also don't want to let them go/expire because the potential still excites you a little.
It's so easy to pay the fees and procrastinate a little longer.
#world #planet #earth #pollution #wars #internet #technology #science #scientists #create #creation #billions #population #number #numbers #statistics #life #disrespect #oppression #ignoring #ignore #papergangsters #law #laws #lobbyists #hidden #patents #power #shuttingdown #authority #crime #accidents #future #past #knowledge #education #kid #kids #children #accidents #limit #limits #fighting #honor #honorable #noise #infrastructure #outside #norespectforlife
💡Intellectual property rights allow individuals & companies to benefit from what they create
But European businesses still encounter challenges to register or protect #patents
📽️ Watch 👇 or
📖 Read https://europa.eu/!989P3b
@EPOorg
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EP_ThinkTank/status/1693872629667823669
What the ever loving BS is this? Why are game companies patenting such garbage? This needs to stop.
Happily, the numbers quoted by the UPC in this article today from JUVE are in good agreement with ours (see my earlier post today), but it seems that there are quite a few cases relating to (presumably only) provisional or protective measures that are not visible to third parties on the CMS. We counted two of those, but apparently there are ten.
⚡️ IP-Tesla. Episode Three: Radio Active
The story of radio that had changed the world
▫️ Is Nikola Tesla the first inventor of radio?
▫️ How has radio become the most widespread technology of its time?
▫️ Why Tesla has not been awarded the Nobel Prize?
▫️ How American judicial system has helped Tesla to restore justice?
📺 https://youtu.be/JAjq02KMHq8
#nikolatesla #tesla #legal #history #intellectualproperty #patents #radio #inventor #serbia #lawyers #lawprofs #documentary #claims_ip
Interesting chart: Approximate times between invention or patenting and first major federal regulation
Fashion hits the Unified Patent Court – a recent patent infringement case filed in the Hamburg local division of the UPC names Gucci as the defendant. The patent is being asserted by Agfa and relates to a method of leather treatment to decorate it.
https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/agfa-files-upc-case-against-gucci-over-leather-product-printing/
The patent itself is quite cute, and can be read here:
Big thanks 👏 to #LawProf Jason Ratanen who has updated his US utility #patents granted since 1840 graph #IP #lawfedi #legalHist https://patentlyo.com/patent/2023/08/utility-patents-granted-calendar.html
"Inventors have accused #Apple of stealing technology for decades, but until recently, most have been dismissed by the public or bullied by threats of legal and financial ruin from Apple.
Some people just don’t want to believe that the world’s largest company is also the world’s most dishonest, and that’s the way Apple likes it."
Aug 19 2023 op-ed in The Hill: "Apple’s anti-competitive tactics must be stopped"
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4158989-apples-anti-competitive-tactics-must-be-stopped/
Can't wait to read the latest from Kara Swanson, hot off the press in the Houston Law Review
@ShadowJonathan seriously, #Copyright, like #Patents, should've been a flat 25 years or less and no day more - period!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4
A reminder and advance notice that from 1 November 2023 the EPO is going to abolish the 10 day rule, by which deadlines calculated from the notification of communications issued by the EPO run from their deemed date of receipt, namely 10 days later than the date of the document. Thereafter, such deadlines will run from the date of the communication itself.
https://new.epo.org/en/legal/official-journal/2023/03/a29.html#
The hostile #patent pool targeting the royalty-free AV1 CODEC appears again to be deeply flawed. Is it possible that all the #patents it contains are in fact non-essential to implementation of the AV1 #standards?
https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2023/6/15/interdigital-sisvels-av1-pool-us-9675556
So far, I have only seen Barbie and not Oppenheimer, but both stories have interesting intellectual property aspects. Two of my colleagues have examined them.
https://eip.com/uk/insights/article/barbenheimer_a_tale_of_patents_designs_and_possibilities/
Nintendo Is Trying To Patent Some Really Broad Tears of the Kingdom Mechanics - Loading screen maps and movement physics are just some of the elements from The Le... - https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/08/16/2050223/nintendo-is-trying-to-patent-some-really-broad-tears-of-the-kingdom-mechanics?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #patents
Slashdot: Nintendo Is Trying To Patent Some Really Broad Tears of the Kingdom Mechanics https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/08/16/2050223/nintendo-is-trying-to-patent-some-really-broad-tears-of-the-kingdom-mechanics?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #Tech #slashdot #Technology #patents
Weirdly, there is no official list of all the judges of the Unified Patent Court. Handily therefore, JUVE has compiled this extensive and informative account of who they all are.
https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/upc-judges-a-complete-overview/
how do I say it politely
https://www.osnews.com/story/24863/bittorrent-utorrent-sued-for-patent-infringement/
#patents are pathetic and lame
@geerlingguy *nodds in agreement*
Were the #GPLv3 not ideological garbage but actually comitted to #FLOSS remaining #public, it would've chosen #PublicAccessibilit to code as priority over illegally demanding surrender of all #Patents and #IP.
In fact, #grsecurity #paywalling the code was the first warning shot, and when that went through, others like #Elastic and #MongoDB and now #RedHat saw that they could get away with #paywalls on #FLOSS...
It's sickening.
Software patents are absolute garbage. Video game patents are even worse. There is no reason for any of these patents to be granted.
#Nintendo #patents #softwarepatents #videogames
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/nintendo-files-extensive-tears-of-the-kingdom-related-patents
It's syllabus time! Did you know that my coauthors and I have put out a (free) supplement for anyone who wants to add one day on design patents to their IP class:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3890945
We also have a full (also free) Patents book, available at: https://patentlawcasebook.com
Wow, my toot about issues with video hardware acceleration in Firefox really pointed me in the right direction.
Turns out the machine was missing the drivers for H264 codec support.
Fedora removed the patented codecs from their official driver packages in Fedora 37: https://debugpointnews.com/fedora-37-mesa/
> "A recent change in open-source Mesa package config file in Fedora 37 disables the decoding of h264dec, h264enc, h265dec, h265enc, vc1dec via GPU."
It basically fell back to CPU-decoding. And encoding as well, in my case with ffmpeg video conversion and recording.
Bruh.
Fix: https://www.tc3.dev/posts/2022-12-03-video-acceleration-fedora-37/
This is what vaapi should look like:
# sudo vainfo
libva info: VA-API version 1.18.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/radeonsi_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_18
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.18 (libva 2.18.2)
vainfo: Driver version: Mesa Gallium driver 23.1.4 for AMD Radeon Graphics (renoir, LLVM 16.0.6, DRM 3.52, 6.4.6-200.fc38.x86_64)
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile2 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc
For reference, this was the before state:
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile2 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc
That poor processor 😭
#fedora #vaapi #vdpau #amd #mesa #amdgpu #patents #h264 #firefox
“#PatentsKill” is a lie. The truth is that #PatentsSaveLives.
https://newideal.aynrand.org/mossoff-and-adalja-ip-waivers-disarm-us-against-pandemics/
For more, read this #policy brief by George Mason University #law professor and #IP rights expert Adam Mossoff, and infectious disease physician and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for #Health Security Dr. Amesh Adalja:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9500249/
#PatentWaivers #patents #IntellectualProperty #COVID19 #vaccines #BioTech #pharma #TRIPSAct #NoFreeTRIPS #USITC #WTO #InternationalTrade
I wonder if patent trolls aka NPEs are concerned about the rising cost of doing business? Or does tech giants banding together against them like this just a minor cost? https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2023/7/24/soundstreak-texas-av-recording-patent-found-invalid-in-reexam
#patents #IP #PatentTrolls
#10yrsago Get ready for the big bang as #3DPrinting #patents expire https://qz.com/106483/3d-printing-will-explode-in-2014-thanks-to-the-expiration-of-key-patents
#10yrsago Some phones can be pwned by sending 2 SMS messages to them https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/technology/encryption-flaw-makes-phones-possible-accomplices-in-theft.html
#10yrsago Woo with a body-count: measles epidemic follows #AntiVax scare https://science.slashdot.org/story/13/07/22/0319243/fifteen-years-after-autism-panic-a-plague-of-measles-erupts
#10yrsago Legally binding “buzz-off” letters for #DebtCollectors https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/debtcollection/
#10yrsago Footage of #HauntedMansion’s #HatboxGhost finally surfaces after 44 years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnERBLhd5ac
6/
221 / University patenting and the pace of industrial innovation https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtm016
“Results presented here suggest that an increase in university patenting is associated with a slow down in the pace of knowledge exploitation, measured as a lengthening of the average time between the creation of (patented) knowledge and the exploitation of this knowledge by a firm in new (patented) innovations.”
I noticed this picture circulating on Mastodon with a claim that Sony is going to make TVs *trapping consumers in commercial hell until they jump up and yell a brand name*.
But, you can’t jump to conclusions. Especially, if there is no source citing. A standalone image rarely tells the whole story.
This was an interactive incentive system, perhaps the first-ever in the history of live TV broadcasts.
#Sony #gossip #commercial #patents #factCheck
From: @Lance_Ulanoff
https://www.techradar.com/opinion/as-we-bury-twitter-its-time-to-dig-up-mastodon
@petersuber I love how this article intentionally or not highlights how IP (#patents and #tradesecrets in this case) are obstacles to "trust in science"; the former is especially ironic as patents supposedly encourage info revelation, but instead the possibility of patenting discourages info revelation. IP undermines scientific culture, and culture period. It is a metaphorical brain cancer on humanity.
@ryanhoulihan NO, it would be a classic #EmbraceExtentExtinguish move!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extinguish#Examples_by_Microsoft
Espechally since #MAPI is purposefully laced with #patents to enshure @mozilla #Thunderbird and other #FLOSS clients can't support it out-of-the box!
And it necessitates 3rd party addons to be able to use a good client...
https://www.beonex.com/owl/
My ex father-in-law worked at #Digital for about 20 years before retiring on #disability and had his name on several of their #patents. Not #AltaVista, though.
So when I say an AI assistant like Jarvis will know everything about you, where you are, your current situation, etc., that will include things like what you're experiencing at the moment (even the odors around you). :) On a serious note, that could just save your life someday.
Yes, odor :) While browsing Google patents recently, I came across this one. I DIDN'T analyze it heavily, but it's yet another sign that a Jarvis-like experience is coming -> Enabling an automated assistant to leverage odor sensors of client devices
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230184652A1/en?oq=20230184652
I don't know if you collect fictional #patents, but here's a #drawing for a #prosthetic #tongue, which plays an important part in one episode of the #Simpsons.*
Apparently Springfield's founder really had a silver tongue--not just metaphorically!
All the best from Taiwan.
*"Lisa the Iconoclast" (Season 7, episode 16)
:SMOrc: @eff writes:
⎧ The U.S. Patent Office has proposed new rules about who can challenge wrongly granted patents. If the rules become official, they will offer new protections to patent trolls. Challenging patents will become far more onerous, and impossible for some. The new rules could stop organizations like EFF, which used this process to fight the Personal Audio “podcasting patent,” from filing patent challenges altogether ⎭
#USPTO
#Patents
#PatentTrolls
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/06/our-right-challenge-junk-patents-under-threat
US Patent Office Proposes Rule To Make It Much Harder To Kill Bad Patents - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: So, this is bad. Over the last ... - https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/06/12/2225247/us-patent-office-proposes-rule-to-make-it-much-harder-to-kill-bad-patents?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #patents
The Linux Foundation is hosting a webinar covering more details on the new proposed patent rules and what they mean for open source today - June 7, 10:30 AM PT.
We'll be joining and you can too by registering here: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/webinars/stopping-patent-trolls-why-open-source-urgently-needs-your-help-now?hsLang=en&utm_content=251695026&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-14706299
You bring your smart invention. We’ll make it sparkle 💡
The Unitary Patent system is live and ready to boost innovation across #Europe.
Innovators can now benefit from a one-stop shop for the registration and enforcement of #patents in Europe.
This means lower costs, less paperwork and reduced red tape.
With no added formalities, the Unitary Patent will be effective in 17 #EU countries, cutting the renewal fees over 10 years from around €29,000 to less than €5,000.
Yesterday was a BIG day for IP & Internet Law at #SCOTUS.
We got decisions in:
- Warhol: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-869_87ad.pdf
- Amgen: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-757_2d8f.pdf
- Gonzalez: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1333_6j7a.pdf
- Taamneh:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1496_d18f.pdf
SCOTUS also cited @marklemley & @jsherkow's The Antibody Patent Paradox, 132 Yale L. J. 994, 1001–1002 (2023), available at: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/the-antibody-patent-paradox
SCOTUS cites with approval the combination-lock analogy from the “Brief for Intellectual Property Law Professors and Scholars as Amici Curiae.” https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-757_k5g1.pdf
It might have been nice for them to be clear, it the decision, *which* IP professor brief it meant (it was the one signed by Chao, Collins, Cotropia, Duan, Liivak, Miller, Rai, Sinha, Tu & Vertinsky): http://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-757/254506/20230210111204129_21-757%20bsac%20Intellectual%20Property%20Law%20Professors.pdf
SCOTUS: Amgen argues that “its broad claims are enabled because scientists can make and use every undisclosed but functional antibody if they simply follow the company’s ‘roadmap’ or its proposal for ‘conservative substitution.’ We cannot agree. These two approaches amount to little more than two research assignments.”
SCOTUS: "we do not doubt that Amgen’s specification enables the 26 exemplary antibodies it identifies by their amino acid sequences....But the claims before us sweep much broader than those 26 antibodies. And we agree with the lower courts that Amgen has failed to enable all that it has claimed, even allowing for a reasonable degree of experimentation."
Apparently the fact Chinese companies are now doing exactly what western multinationals have been doing for years with #patents embedded in #standards is a cause for concern.
Always worth remembering. The #web could have been proprietary infrastructure.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/30/1172276538/world-wide-web-internet-anniversary
"30 years ago this week…something called the World Wide Web launched into the public domain…#CERN owned Berners-Lee's invention and…had the option to license [it] out…for profit. But Berners-Lee believed that keeping the web as open as possible would help it grow…[He] eventually convinced CERN to release the World Wide Web into the #PublicDomain without any #patents or fees."
Does anyone know if a certified copy will have a ribbon and seal?
You can order a certified paper copy of a U.S. patent for $25: https://certifiedcopycenter.uspto.gov/published.html
"Today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is implementing electronic patent issuance in the form of electronic patent grants (eGrants). All patents issued on April 18, 2023 and forward will be issued as eGrants."
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USPTO/bulletins/35558c4
Big Win Against #Evergreening For Tuberculosis Sufferers In India, But Will Johnson & Johnson Allow Those In Other Countries To Benefit? - https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/05/big-win-against-evergreening-for-tuberculosis-sufferers-in-india-but-will-johnson-johnson-allow-those-in-other-countries-to-benefit/ #patents #tb
"[T]he Court is not inclined to allow a lawsuit...to proceed on the possibility that the defendants may eventually waive the application of the [joinder] statute. A 'shoot first and ask questions later' approach does not seem to the Court to be appropriate here, particularly...with under-seal filing, ex parte temporary restraining orders, asset freezes, and the like."
Oakley, Inc. v. Schedule "A", 2021 WL 308882, at *2 (N.D. Ill. Jan. 30, 2021) (Kennelly, J.). #ScheduleA #Patents
Update. In rural America, right-to-repair laws are the leading edge of a pushback against growing corporate power.
https://theconversation.com/in-rural-america-right-to-repair-laws-are-the-leading-edge-of-a-pushback-against-growing-corporate-power-199372
"Under the agreement, John #Deere promises to give farmers and independent repair shops access to manuals, diagnostics and parts. But there’s a catch – the agreement isn’t legally binding, and, as part of the deal, the influential #FarmBureau promised not to support any federal or state #RightToRepair legislation."
The @EU_Commission will soon offer @europarl_en a bill on Standard-Essential Patents (SEPs). I explore exactly why vendors embedding their #patents in “open” standards is antithetical to #OpenSource practice.
I am so glad patents were a later invention of Humanity.
Had the person who 'invented' fire patented it with our current intellectual property laws and convoluted ways of preserving the rights forever, we would have never left the stone age.
#OpenSource has always been the way of advancing our quality of life.
Our ability to collaborate is our superpower.
(Picture by K. Mitch Hodge on Unsplash)
"A handful of companies own the #patents on virtually every #seed planted in the US. Now, a new crop of unowned seeds is bringing #biodiversity back to #farming."
https://worldsensorium.com/open-source-seeds-loosen-big-ags-grip-on-farmers/
#agriculture #food #monopoly #ossi (Open Source Seed Initiative)
FYI, I link to two earlier reports on this problem (2017 and 2019) in a tweet from 2020.
https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1317831041055399936
“#OpenSource” #Seeds Loosen #BigAg’s Grip on #Farmers – #WorldSensorium / #Conservancy
"A handful of companies own the #patents on virtually every #seed planted in the #US. Now, a new #crop of unowned seeds is bringing #biodiversity back to #farming."
https://worldsensorium.com/open-source-seeds-loosen-big-ags-grip-on-farmers/
In truth, probably one of the worst things Twitter has done was to suppress tweets from the global "People's Vaccine" campaign that was campaigning for a #generic #COVID19 #Vaccine, free of #patents. Twitter worked in cahoots with the big pharmaceutical companies.
How many people, particularly in the #GlobalSouth suffered because of big pharma patents on vaccines?
https://theintercept.com/2023/01/16/twitter-covid-vaccine-pharma/
As a Twitter refugee here a little #introduction to myself:
I am a #LowCode Specialist with background in supply chain management and as a #mechanic. I hold two #patents in heat regeneration.
By day I work for a startup in the #automotive field and by night I design or simplify things for everyday life by #3DPrinting.
I have a weakness for Dieter Rams #minimalist design, #gadgets and simple shapes. Building and riding #fixedgear bikes is something I do to get some fresh air after all.
Why we need #open-source #science innovation — not #patents and #paywalls
https://theconversation.com/why-we-need-open-source-science-innovation-not-patents-and-paywalls-192484
"To gain access through the paywalls costs an enormous amount of money for a library (even #Harvard’s library balked at having to pay more than US$1 million per year to #access articles from a single publisher). "