Freshly minted Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and his slender Republican majority may have a long list of legislation that they would like to see become law, but with a Democratic White House and...
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China’s Newest Weapon to Nab Western Technology—Its Courts
The growing conflict between China and the U.S. extends from computer-chip factories to a suspected spy balloon over American skies. Running through it all is a struggle for technological superiority....
Huawei turns to patents for a lifeline — including those in the U.S.
Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei saw revenue decline in 2021 for the first time on record. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei is turning to p...
Nike sues Lululemon over shoe designs
Nike is suing Lululemon for patent infringement related to at least four of the apparel company’s shoes, extending a contentious legal history between the two companies. In the complaint, filed ...
IPwe, Casper Labs converting 25 million patents to NFTs as enterprise blockchain usage grows
During the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, IPwe Inc. and Casper Labs announced a historic move to convert 25 million patents to dynamic NFTs. The announcement marks one of the most significant ...
Samsung Knocks Longtime Patent Leader IBM Off Its Perch
In a year when the U.S. issued the smallest number of patents since 2018, Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics nosed past IBM with the most new patents, the first time in 29 years that IBM fai...
PayPal: services and patents in the crypto world
PayPal, the fastest, easiest and most secure payment service, has long been allowing people to buy crypto such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Litecoin (LTC) and send them to wallets else...
AbbVie Stock Slips as Sales Miss Expectations And Bigger Challenges Await.
Stock in AbbVie slipped after the drug company reported a higher profit than expected, while sales fell short. The revenue shortfall may have reminded investors of a challenge AbbVie (ticker: ABBV) fa...
Why Elon Musk says ‘patents are for the weak’
The list of things that interest Elon Musk ranges from space travel to easing Los Angeles’ infamous traffic. One thing that doesn’t make the cut? Patents. The 50-year-old entrepreneur rece...
Merck Looks Attractive, With or Without Seagen
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Hedera Hashgraph – Will the Hedera Patents Lead to Corporate Blockchain Adoption and 10x soon?
Hedera Hashgraph was developed to prepare protocols with decentralized governance by employing the hashgraph consensus mechanism. The technology behind Hedera is anticipated to merge the strength of B...
3M Earplugs Fight Stems From Self-Made Legal Battle
A long-running legal battle over allegedly defective earplugs made by 3M arose after the company initiated a separate dispute against a smaller competitor, court documents showed. 3M’s effort to prote...
Impact of NFTs on patents
Even though the NFT technology is relatively new, its governing patent laws are not. NFTs in continuous expansion However, the growing popularity of innovative technologies such as NFTs, with brands ...
We have hundreds of blockchain patents but regulators block us
As the cryptocurrency market expands across the world and enters various industries, individuals and major corporations are becoming more interested in jumping on the crypto bandwagon themselves. Howe...
We Have Hundreds of Blockchain Patents — But Regulation Won’t Allow Us to Engage in Crypto – Regulation Bitcoin News
The CEO of Bank of America says that his bank has hundreds of blockchain patents but regulations will not allow it to engage in crypto. “The reality is that we can’t do it by regulation,” he said. Ban...
Micron sued for alleged patent infringement
BOISE, Idaho — Bell Semiconductor has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against computer chip maker Micron Technology. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court contends that Boise, Idaho-b...
AAPL surges as the company beats earnings expectations and nets two patents for mixed reality devices
Market participants widely speculate that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is working on mixed reality (MR) headset which is supposed to be announced sometime next year. The United States patent office has offici...
Impossible Foods patent at risk in legal battle with Motif FoodWorks
Plant-based burgers developed by Impossible Foods Inc. are seen at the 2nd China International Import Expo (CIIE) at the National Exhibition and Convention Center on November 6, 2019 in Shanghai, Chin...
BlackBerry to sell legacy patents to Catapult IP Innovations for $600 million
BlackBerry Ltd. BB, +4.37% said Monday it has entered an agreement to sell legacy patents relating mostly to mobile devices, messaging and wireless networking to Catapult IP Innovations Inc. for $600 ...
Why Moderna, Pfizer and the NIH debate who owns the Covid vaccine
It’s been well over a year since a landmark proposal brought the issue of patent waiver for the mRNA Covid vaccine to the spotlight. But many observers don’t see that waiving the intellect...
‘I have $30,000 in my savings account’: I’m 56, unemployed and single. I invented products that will cost $20,000 to bring to market. Should I do it?
Dear Quentin, I am a 56-year-old divorced woman who has raised four children as a single parent. I made the decision at a young age to give birth to all of my children, and I was the sole provider for...