An Old Trick in the Patent Book: Targeted Drafting from 1876 to 2026
by Dennis Crouch When Alexander Graham Bell filed his patent application on February 14, 1876, he titled it "Improvement in ...
Friday, March 27, 2026
Tag: patent
Moderna faces $5 billion mRNA patent lawsuit after ‘Star Trek’ ruling
Behind the household COVID-19 name, Moderna, is facing a $5 billion patent-infringement lawsuit over vaccine technology. On February 2, 2026, ...
Large Entities Achieve Double the Patent Allowance Rate of Micro Entities
The USPTO classifies patent applicants into three entity categories: large entities (regular undiscounted), small entities (businesses with fewer than 500 ...
Procedural Fairness in Patent Pleading: Federal Circuit Vacates Adnexus Dismissal
by Dennis Crouch Adnexus Inc. v. Meta Platforms, Inc., No. 2024-1551 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 2025). The district court dismissed Adnexus ...
Exclusive: Palantir alums using AI to streamline patent filing secure $20 million in Series A venture funding
Two former Palantir employees hoping to use AI to transform the process for filing and managing patents have secured $20 ...
Genflow Biosciences announces second European patent application (GENFF:OTCMKTS)
Genflow Biosciences (OTCQB:GENFF) on Wednesday announced that its second European patent application (Application No. 23821586.7, Publication No. EP4630038), titled "SIRT6 ...
Genetic Patents Catch-22: Can Challenging a Patent Requires Risking Infringement?
by Dennis Crouch An interesting mandamus petition is pending from Inari Agriculture -- asking the Federal Circuit to overturn the ...
The New Trump-Lutnick Patent Tax: Trading Innovation Policy for Deficit Reduction
by Dennis Crouch The Trump administration is reportedly considering a radical transformation of the US patent system that would replace ...
Patent Box Regimes in Europe, 2025
Currently, 13 of the 27 EU Member States have a patent box regime in place. These are Belgium, Cyprus, France, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, ...
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