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 [...]
Since the rights granted by the U.S.Patent extend only throughout the territory of united states and no effect on foreign country, an inventor who wishes patent protection in other countries must apply for a patent in each of the other countries or in regional patent offices. Almost every country has its own patent law, and [...]
Inventors and businesses seeking protection for their patents from EPO office and Eurasian Patent Office are now able to benefit from fast-track patent examination at both offices, following the entry into force of joint patent prosecution highway pilot programme. The PPH also permits each participating patent office to share and re-use existing work results. [...]
So you have an idea! You have been thinking about certain plans since many days or even months or even years, you also have ideations for the same. But you do not know how far that idea is going to work or whether that idea would fetch you money. Turning an idea into money is a [...]
The European Union is drawing up guidelines on how many patent holders should charge for their technologies a thorny issue that pits Apple and other users against Qualcomm and Ericsson. Trillions of Dollars in sales are at stake as regulator ponder whether a flat, fixed rate, would be better. The patent fee model by the world [...]
