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ShareA company which won a $100+ million payout from Microsoft this week is applying for an upgrade. VirnetX, which won cases involving XP and Vista is now bringing similar claims over Windows 7.
The cases involved patents on virtual private networks, which are effectively networks built on top of existing networks, usually with a higher level [...]
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2010 World IP Day – 10th anniversary
On World Intellectual Property Day this year,
WIPO’s focus is on “Innovation – Linking the World“.
Most people are aware of intellectual property (IP) – of copyright, patents, industrial designs and trademarks. But many still view these as business or legal concepts with little relevance to their [...]
ShareOn April 26, 2010, WIPO celebrates both the 10th anniversary of World Intellectual Property Day and the 40th anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention establishing WIPO (the WIPO Convention).
The theme of World IP Day in this celebratory year is “Innovation – Linking the World”.
To mark the 10th anniversary of the launch of [...]
ShareThomas Simonian filed 28 lawsuits last week.
The barrage of suits, all filed in Chicago federal court, involve an obscure section of the U.S. patent laws dealing with marking a product with its patent number.
Though consumers probably don’t notice the fine print, it’s common to list the patent number on product packaging. Patent owners who do [...]
ShareAbbott (NYSE: ABT) and Facet Biotech Corporation (Nasdaq: FACT) announced today a definitive agreement for Abbott to acquire Facet, enhancing Abbott’s early- and mid-stage pharmaceutical pipeline. Abbott will acquire Facet for $27 per share in cash for a net transaction value of approximately $450 million, which includes a purchase price of approximately $722 million less [...]
ShareNext week, engineers at the Large Hadron Collider will prepare the particle-smasher to run at 7 teraelectronvolts (TeV) – half the energy it was designed for. So what will it find?
Greg Landsberg, a member of the CMS collaboration, which operates one of the four experiments at the LHC, says the [...]
ShareNovartis has gained exclusive rights to develop and market Debio 025 (alisporivir), a potential first-in-class antiviral agent currently in Phase IIb development for the treatment of hepatitis C. Debio 025 is the first in a new class of drugs called cyclophilin inhibitors which could become part of the future standard [...]
ShareIBM said Wednesday that it has agreed to buy Initiate Systems, a privately held company that makes software designed to help health care companies manage and share information.
Initiate’s software is geared toward customers in both the private sector and government, all of whom deal with a huge amount of health care [...]
ShareIt all started in 2006, when researchers were studying a young woman considered to be in a vegetative state. Using MRI to scan her brain, they asked her to imagine herself playing tennis and touring her own home, and found that her brain behaved in much the way a normally functioning [...]
ShareNEWS – Monday, December 14, 2009
Federal scientists say AstraZeneca’s cholesterol pill Crestor lowers the risk of heart attack, death and stroke in patients without a history of heart disease, though some safety concerns remain.
In documents posted online Friday, the Food and Drug Administration cites the findings of AstraZeneca’s study released last November. The study [...]
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