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Life Sciences Top 50 (plus 3) By Donald Zuhn — On Wednesday, the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) released its 29th annual list of the top 300 organizations receiving U.S. patents. Patent Docs Readers may recall that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office stopped releasing its annual list of top patent recipients in 2006 in…
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By Donald Zuhn — A report prepared by the Economics and Statistics Administration and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows that IP-intensive industries support tens of millions of jobs and contribute several trillion dollars to the U.S, economy. The 76-page report, entitled "Intellectual Property and the U.S. Economy: Industries in Focus," which was released in…
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By Donald Zuhn — Patent services provider inovia announced the release of its 2012 report on global patent and IP trends today. In compiling the report, inovia, which produces products for PCT national phase entry, European patent validation, and patent translations, surveyed nearly 150 U.S. companies to identify the trends having the greatest impact on…
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By Donald Zuhn — The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) recently presented the highlights of the AUTM Licensing Activity Survey Summary for FY2010. While the full report will be released later this fall, the academic technology transfer organization noted that "[d]espite continuing difficult economic conditions, university and research institute licensing and startup activity remained…
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By Donald Zuhn — Earlier this year, the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) released its 28th annual list of the top 300 organizations receiving U.S. patents. As in past years, Patent Docs used the IPO's list of top patent holders to compile a list of the top "biotech and pharma" companies and organizations receiving U.S.…
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"Biotech/Pharma Top 50 (plus 6)" By Donald Zuhn — The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) released its 28th annual list of the top 300 organizations receiving U.S. patents. Patent Docs Readers may recall that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office stopped releasing its annual list of top patent recipients in 2006 in order to "discourag[e]…
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By Donald Zuhn — In February, inovia released its 2011 report on global IP trends. In compiling the report, inovia, which produces products for PCT national phase entry, European patent validation, and patent translations, surveyed nearly 150 U.S. companies to examine how the U.S. economy has impacted the foreign filing strategies of U.S. patentees. The…
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By Donald Zuhn — Earlier this month, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) released a report on intellectual property trends in 2008 and 2009 showing that innovative activity and demand for IP rights dipped during the global economic crisis, but began to recover this year. Commenting on the report, WIPO Director General Francis Gurry stated…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — On Monday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted an ex parte reexamination request for U.S. Patent No. 5,925,803, the latest-filed and last-granted member of the Harvard Oncomouse patent family. Remarkable about the petition is that the third party requester (TPR), Ellen Gonzales of Gonzales Patent Services, contends that…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last week, a post on Patently-O presented some interesting results regarding the percent of utility applications that had issued as patents as compared to the total number of issued patents and abandoned applications for eight technology centers (see "USPTO Grant Rate by Technology Center"). The post indicated that the results…
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