Patent Law Weblog
Category: Patent Prosecution
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By Nicole Grimm, Brett Scott, and George "Trey" Lyons, III — Since Attorney General Jeff Sessions was sworn in, the cannabis industry has been watching and waiting to see if he would indeed keep his word to crack down on state-legal cannabis businesses. Today, just four days after the legal sale of recreational cannabis for…
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By Nicole Grimm, Brett Scott, and George "Trey" Lyons, III — As with any billion dollar market, patents are an important consideration for the cannabis industry. Despite its current classification as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, however, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued hundreds of patents on cannabis to…
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By Donald Zuhn — Patent services provider RWS inovia recently released its eighth annual report on global patent and IP trends. In compiling "The 2017 U.S. Global Patent & IP Trends Indicator," RWS inovia, which produces products for PCT national phase entry and European patent validation, and provides IP translations and search services, surveyed more…
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By Kevin E. Noonan – The National Academy of Inventors and the Intellectual Property Owners Association released a report last week on the top 100 universities worldwide granted patents in 2016. Overall, universities were granted 6,768 patents; the Top 10 (9 in the U.S. and one from China) accounted for about one-third of these patents and…
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Life Sciences Top 55 By Donald Zuhn — Last week, the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) announced the release of its 34th annual list of the top 300 organizations receiving U.S. patents (see "Top 300 Organizations Granted U.S. Patents in 2016"). Patent Docs Readers may recall that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office stopped releasing…
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By Donald Zuhn — Patent services provider RWS inovia recently released its seventh annual report on global patent and IP trends. In compiling "The 2016 U.S. Global Patent & IP Trends Indicator," RWS inovia, which produces products for PCT national phase entry and European patent validation, and provides IP translations and search services, surveyed more…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last month, the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) published a list of the top 100 worldwide universities that received the most U.S. utility patents in 2014. The NAI is a non-profit organization comprising U.S. and international universities, and governmental and non-profit research institutions, with…
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Life Sciences Top 55 By Donald Zuhn — Last week, the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) announced the release of its 32nd annual list of the top 300 organizations receiving U.S. patents (see "Top 300 Organizations Granted U.S. Patents in 2014"). Patent Docs Readers may recall that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office stopped releasing…
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By Donald Zuhn — Patent services provider inovia has released its fifth annual report on global patent and IP trends. In compiling "The 2014 U.S. Global Patent & IP Trends Indicator," inovia, which produces products for PCT national phase entry, European patent validation, and patent translations, surveyed more than 100 companies and universities in May…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) recently published a list of the top 100 universities worldwide granted U.S. patents in 2013. As reported in the IP Record, these universities are: (foreign universities in bold) 62% of these universities are U.S. universities, with China (18%) being the foreign country with the largest…
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