A U.S. District Court ordered Nobel Prize winner and former Yale University professor John Fenn, 87, to pay Yale $545,000 in royalties and penalties, and pay their legal bills of almost $500,000. While at Yale in the late 1980s, Fenn developed a method for mass spectrometric analysis of chemical compounds in solution concerned with determining […]
Well, I have decided to give up my Bio-IP.com site on TypePad and switch to PatentBaristas.com on a new hosting service running on MovableType. I like the idea of having the flexibility of MT and my new hosting service on iPowerWeb provides plenty of bandwidth. Many thanks to Christina at Moxie Design Studios for helping […]
I’ve been trying out the free service from IPNewsFlash.com that allows you to search for patent families. You can run a search and get a complete list of its legal status based on INPADOC data. You just need to enter a valid publication number such as WO03054153, AU775606, US6335169 or DE10196055T and press the "Search"-button. […]
The new biotechnology open-source group, called the Biological Innovation for Open Society ("BIOS"), announced that researchers from Australia published a paper in Nature describing a method of creating genetically modified crops that does not infringe on patents held by big biotechnology companies. Like open-source software, they said the technique, and a related one already used […]
As noted on Law.com, people came out in droves to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Tuesday to listen to arguments for a case on claim interpretation. In Phillips v. AWH Corp., 363 F.3d 1207 (Fed. Cir. 2004), the claimed term “baffle” was limited to baffles that were at an angle […]
Some have expressed concern that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) hosted a two-day meeting last week to discuss substantive patent law harmonization. The participants, from 22 countries along with the EPO and EC, issued a Statement of Intent noting that they will convene future meetings to consider "issues with regard to intellectual […]
As part of a proposed $2.57 trillion fiscal year 2006 budget request for the USPTO is $1.7 billion, equaling anticipated FY 2006 fee collections from patent and trademark filings. The request represents a $149 million increase over FY 2005, and reflects an anticipated rise in patent and trademark fee collections. As part of the 21st […]
Monsanto Co. has resolved a patent dispute with Bayer CropScience and a German non-profit research organization in a worldwide cross-license deal. This ends a long-standing rift over Agrobacterium technology, a transformation technology used to transfer a gene into a host plant’s DNA with more precision and efficiency than other available methods. Scientists at Monsanto and […]
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