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Immortal Cells, Ongoing Legacy: Lacks Family Pursues Justice Against Biotech Giant
September 30th, 2024
A Maryland federal judge has ruled that biopharmaceutical company Ultragenyx must face a lawsuit from the heirs of Henrietta Lacks. As the judge explained Over 70 years ago, Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman from Baltimore County, Maryland, entrusted do…
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Federal Circuit Overturns PTAB: Encrypted Data Not 'Printed Matter’
September 13th, 2024
The Federal Circuit has reversed a series of decisions by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) in inter partes reviews (IPRs) challenging storage and data processing patents. The court found that the PTAB incorrectly interpreted encrypte…
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Nintendo Reaches $2.4 Million Settlement against Emulator Company
September 10th, 2024
Nintendo quickly reached a settlement with the maker of a Switch game emulator that will result in a payout of $2.4 million to Nintendo and the defendant company shutting down. As Ars Technica reported, Nintendo is “basically taking the positio…
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Federal Circuit Finds Heart Valve Support Unpatentable
May 29th, 2024
The Federal Circuit has affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) finding that patent claims for a type of prosthetic valve support were unpatentable as obvious. Cardiovalve Ltd. owns US Patent No. 10,226,341, titled “Implant for Heart Valve.…
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Supreme Court Hears “Trump Too Small” Trademark Case
January 15th, 2024
The US Supreme Court will resolve a trademark dispute over an attempt to register the mark “Trump Too Small” for printing on shirts. Elster applied for the trademark in 2018. It was inspired by an exchange of insults at a 2016 Republican presiden…
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When does “A” mean more than one?
November 22nd, 2023
The Federal Circuit has reversed a claim construction adopted during an inter partes review (IPR) because the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) erred in construing the limitation “a” to mean a single sample rather than including the…
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South Korea's Startup Ecosystem Shows Great Promise
October 23rd, 2023
In East Asia, one country has shown promising results, with South Korea seeing exponential growth in its startups. In the last decade alone, funding into the startup industry has been on the rise, culminating in an investment of approximately $6.4 bi…
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The Growing Demand for Agricultural Technology
March 15th, 2022
The demand for food across the world is rising. There are roughly 7.3 billion people populating the earth—quadruple the global population a century ago. This rapid growth has led to a more pressing need for food and sustainable food sources, with f…
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Understanding the Controversy over Section 230
January 14th, 2021
Most people probably hadn’t even heard of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act until recently. It’s been in the news because, as The Verge reported, in December President Donald Trump vetoed an annual defense bill authorizing billions of…
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