In short, the major impediment to accessing research tools is not patents per se, but patenting as an institutional imperative in the post-Bayh-Dole era. Our respondents do not encounter an ...

Thus, they are not eligible for patenting. The ruling does allow Myriad to retain some of its patents on the technical details of testing. Both of these genes are quite large, covering tens of ...

Understandably, questions are being raised whether this explosive growth in Chinese patenting is truly indicative of improvement in the technological capabilities of Chinese innovators.

Although issues related to patenting by faculty at academic medical centers have been the source of much controversy, there is little systematic evidence of the growth of these activities ...

The latest report examines patents issued from January 1, 2004, through December 31, 2023, and those filed with the U.S. Patent Office by the year's 50 top-patenting organizations during this period.

November 11, 2024 - Generative AI (GenAI) models — which produce new content based on training data — have recently become increasingly important to the advancement of commercial technologies.

With the rapid evolution of AI, patenting these technologies has become an increasingly complex and urgent issue. The rise of generative AI Generative AI refers to a class of AI systems capable of ...

v. MSN Laboratories Private Ltd. The doctrine of double patenting is rooted in 35 U.S.C. § 101, which states that an inventor may obtain “a patent” for an invention. This provision has been ...

This article discusses some problems with patenting microbial products, and solutions as well. For decades the understanding was that living things could not be patented. This slowly changed in ...