The US patent office ruled Wednesday that hotly disputed patents on a revolutionary genome editing technology belong to the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, dealing a blow to the University of California’s effort to overturn those patents. In one sentence judgement by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, three judges say key patent [...]
As politician in United States continue to draft new legislation aimed at changing insurance, they ignore the real problem, which is actual cost of healthcare. Victims of rising healthcarecosts include government health care problem, such as Medicaid and Medicare. In order to address the specific issues facing the problem. Medicare is federal government healthcare [...]
Hepatitis-related mortality is on the rise, despite the existence of an efficient vaccine for hepatitis B and a cure for hepatitis C, according to the World Health Organization hepatitis report 2017 published today. One of the issues is that a majority of people are unaware of their condition due to limited access to affordable [...]
In the eye of patent lawyer, more patent means more business, and more business means more personal wealth. But at whose expense? Where does the capital come from and where is the value of creation? We are talking about a vicious war between the interest of law firm and interest of industry at large. [...]
Uber has launched new patent purchase program called UP3, which will seek to expedite the process of purchasing patents with an open application. The idea is to get patent holder’s to propose a simple price they are willing to take for their patents, which Uber can take or leave, as a means to side [...]
Members of United States innovators business community have delivered a letter to President Trump requesting that the US Patent and Trademark Office,be exempt from federal hiring freeze announced. The 5th april letter was signed by nearly two dozen organizations and other entities, including the Biotechnology Innovation Organisation, the innovation alliance, the alliance of US [...]
