The Walt Disney Co. may be looking at how to recreate the sensation of swinging on a wen like a spiderman future ride. That is based on new patent the theme park giant filled called Track -based Swing Ride with Long Arm Pendulum. The ride appears to combine a swinging pendulum ride mechanism attached to [...]
Patents play a pretty significant role for innovation providing the incentive of a 20year monopoly on an invention.Inventors may be willing to pour in their own time and resource and can attract investors with the promise of monopoly power of the product. While patents are undoubtedly an important piece of innovation pipeline, highly patentability standard [...]
What are the criteria for Patentability in your Jurisdiction? In China, there are three types of patents Invention Utility Model Design Only invention patents are subject to substantiative examinations. All patent application must first pass the patent-eligibility bar: An invention patent application must be directed to a new product or process of a technical nature. [...]
Google has now appointed a new department head. Micheal Lee who joined a company from Cisco this January has appointed to the role following Allen Lo's exit in august. Lee had already led counsel for monile at Googl. He ha already spend 8 years at Cisco in a variety of [...]
Altaba, the company formed following the sale of Yahoo's core business, has transferred a small patent portfolio to an affilitate of IPNav offshoot Dominion Harbor. The deal appears to be the first sale from the stockpile of IP which was separated from Yahoo's operating arm before that business was sold to Verizon in June [...]
The United Patent and Trademark Office ruled in favor of Eli Lilly and Co. in a patent dispute over its cancer drug Alimta with Neptune Generics LLC and Sandoz Inc. Alimta, Lilly's top selling oncology treatment generated a sales of $2.3 billion last year. The Federal patent review board rejected a challenge to a patent [...]
