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IP is evolving into a distinct, tradeable asset class. The data reveals structural shifts: a $392M FRAND award in the UK, an $85M offer for Preakness IP rights, and changing enforcement dynamics in China. For investors tracking intangible asset value, this is essential reading.
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IP is evolving into a distinct, tradeable asset class. The data reveals structural shifts: a $392M FRAND award in the UK, an $85M offer for Preakness IP rights, and changing enforcement dynamics in China. For investors tracking intangible asset value, this is essential reading.
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IP is evolving into a distinct, tradeable asset class. The data reveals structural shifts: a $392M FRAND award in the UK, an $85M offer for Preakness IP rights, and changing enforcement dynamics in China. For investors tracking intangible asset value, this is essential reading.
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CureVac Pursues Moderna Over COVID Vaccine Patents
German firm CureVac sues Moderna in Delaware, claiming Moderna's COVID vaccine infringes its mRNA technology patents. Seeks royalties.
#CureVac, #Moderna, #PatentLaw, #MRNA, #COVID19
https://newsletter.tf/curevac-sues-moderna-covid-vaccine-patents/
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CureVac has filed a lawsuit against Moderna in Delaware, claiming patent infringement on mRNA technology used in Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine. This action seeks royalties from Spikevax sales.
#CureVac, #Moderna, #PatentLaw, #MRNA, #COVID19
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I was therefore quite surprised to find a US patent for a gas chamber, a sealed room for conducting executions by poison gas (US 2,802,462 to Williams, Aug 13, 1957).
Well. This necessarily implies that a gas chamber for killing prisoners must have a moral utility. So, either the execution of prisoners by the state using a gas chamber is, in itself, a moral utility, or there is some OTHER use for the gas chamber that WOULD BE considered a moral utility.
Weird.
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Even earlier, however, in his opinion for Lowell v. Lewis (15 F. Cas. 1018, 1019, C.C.D. Mass. 1817) Justice Story stated that "All that the law requires is, that the invention should not be frivolous or injurious to the well-being, good policy, or sound morals of society. The word ‘useful,’ therefore, is incorporated into the [patent] act in contradistinction to mischievous or immoral. For instance, a new invention to poison people, or to promote debauchery, or to facilitate private assassination, is not a patentable invention.” (cont)
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When I was a baby patent agent, I was taught that US patent law had a "moral utility" requirement. That is, the US Patent and Trademark Office would not grant a patent on any invention having no moral utility.
The cited example was Rickard v. Du Bon (103 F. 868, 2d Cir. 1900): A patent on a method of putting spots on tobacco leaves was held invalid, because the only purpose of doing so was to make lower-quality tobacco *appear* to be higher quality, although it did not improve the tobacco in any way.
Since the leaf-spotting method had no utility that wasn't immoral, the patent was invalidated. (cont)
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US Patent Changes Promise Severe Consequences https://hackaday.com/2025/11/27/us-patent-changes-promise-severe-consequences/ #InterPartesReview #patenttroll #patentlaw #patent #USPTO #News #IPR
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Well, well, well... looks like Apple's patent watch just got a $634M alarm. A jury says they owe Masimo for infringing on blood oxygen tech. Guess even innovation has its price tags. Do these massive patent battles help or hinder tech progress?
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/15/jury-says-apple-owes-masimo-634m-for-patent-infringement/
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Usage environment characteristics applied in China judicial practice https://www.byteseu.com/1347017/ #CCPITPatentAndTrademarkLawOffice #China #ChinaIPLaw #ChinaJudicialPractice #environment #HaitaoYu #IntellectualPropertyLaw #JudicialPractice #PatentClaims #PatentDrafting #PatentEnforcement #PatentInfringement #PatentLaw #SupremePeopleu2019sCourt #UsageEnvironmentCharacteristics #YazhuoQian
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Josef Prusa Warns Open Hardware 3D Printing is Dead https://hackaday.com/2025/08/13/josef-prusa-warns-open-hardware-3d-printing-is-dead/ #3dPrinterhacks #JosephPrusa #patenttroll #3dprinting #patentlaw #prusa
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Josef Prusa Warns Open Hardware 3D Printing is Dead - It’s hard to overstate the impact desktop 3D printing has had on the making and ha... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/13/josef-prusa-warns-open-hardware-3d-printing-is-dead/ #3dprinterhacks #josephprusa #patenttroll #3dprinting #patentlaw #prusa
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Latest legal update: Apple wins court battle against AliveCor over ECG tech patents ⚖️ The ruling dismisses potential Apple Watch import ban concerns in the US. What does this mean for the future of wearable tech? 🤔 Read the full story to learn more.
#AppleWatch #AliveCor #WearableTech #TechNews #PatentLaw
https://true-tech.net/apple-watch-import-ban-lifted-court-rules/
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Philosopher finds glitch in worldwide patent laws
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-philosopher-glitch-worldwide-patent-laws.html
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#Nintendo's propensity to #lawsuits raises a question: should we still think of them as a "fun and friendly" toy company? Clearly, they've been less innovative in recent years, and eager to crush potential competition with #legal action. We have to wonder how much these companies are stifling #innovation within the #gaming industry by rushing out new #GameMechanics, filing a #patent or #trademark, then sitting on these already built systems and making repeated reskins of the last game, if anything, while threatening anyone who makes anything too popular with similar mechanics.
We need to reconsider #PatentLaw, and we need to reconsider Nintendo's reputation as a game company as opposed to a lawfirm.
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What #SCOTUS just did to #broadband, the #RightToRepair, the #environment, and more
By overturning Chevron, the Supreme Court has declared war on an administrative state that touches everything from net neutrality to climate change.
By Verge Staff
Jun 28, 2024"Since the New Deal era, the bulk of the functioning US government is the administrative state — think the acronym soup of agencies like the #EPA, #FCC, #FTC, #FDA, and so on. Even when Capitol Hill is not mired in deep dysfunction, the speed at which Congress and the courts operate no longer seems suitable for modern life. Both industry and ordinary people look to the administrative state, rather than legislators, for an immediate answer to their problems. And since 1984, the administrative state largely ran on one Supreme Court precedent: #ChevronUSA, Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council (#NRDC).
"That decision has now been overturned. Admin law is not always interesting, but the simple fact is when it comes to the day-to-day, agencies are the most impactful part of the federal government. No single policy writer at The Verge can fully articulate the impact of Friday’s Supreme Court decision and how profound its effects will be. The administrative state touches everything around us: net neutrality, climate change, #CleanAir and water, and what scant #ConsumerProtections we have.
"While the practice had been in place for decades before, it came to be known as Chevron deference after a 1984 case: Chevron v. NRDC. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Chevron, allowing the #RonaldReagan administration’s #industry-friendly Environmental Protection Agency to stick with a lax interpretation of the #CleanAirAct.
"Over the years, Chevron deference has enabled federal agencies to tackle all sorts of issues that legislators have yet to cover — from addressing greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change to regulating broadband access. As the conservative legal movement to disempower the administrative state grew, Chevron deference became — in certain circles — shorthand for #GovernmentOverreach.
"Before its decision to overturn Chevron, the Supreme Court had already dealt a blow to federal agencies’ regulatory authority by strengthening the 'major questions' doctrine in its 2022 decision in West Virginia v. EPA. According to the major questions doctrine, a federal agency shouldn’t have the leeway to craft regulation on an issue of major national significance if Congress hasn’t explicitly allowed it to do so in legislation.
"The same bloc of six #conservative justices that formed the majority in West Virginia v. EPA also overturned the longstanding precedent of #RoeVsWade — an even older case than Chevron — in the same month. When two cases calling for an end to Chevron deference worked their way up to the Supreme Court this year, the writing was on the wall — and once again, those same six justices overturned Chevron.
Impacts:
- #NetNeutrality
- The #environment and efforts to fight #ClimateChange
- Regulating #BigTech
- #TechWorkers on #visas and #immigration law
- #Labor and #WorkersRights
- The right to repair, #copyright, #PatentLaw, and the Apple Watch banhttps://www.theverge.com/24188365/chevron-scotus-net-neutrality-dmca-visa-fcc-ftc-epa
#DMCA #Chevron #PowerGrab #CorporateFascism #ChevronDeference #WaterIsLife #CleanWaterAct #SCOTUS #ScotusIsCorrupt #ScrotusSunday #ImpeachJusticeThomas #ImpeachJusticeAlito #KochBrothers
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What #SCOTUS just did to #broadband, the #RightToRepair, the #environment, and more
By overturning Chevron, the Supreme Court has declared war on an administrative state that touches everything from net neutrality to climate change.
By Verge Staff
Jun 28, 2024"Since the New Deal era, the bulk of the functioning US government is the administrative state — think the acronym soup of agencies like the #EPA, #FCC, #FTC, #FDA, and so on. Even when Capitol Hill is not mired in deep dysfunction, the speed at which Congress and the courts operate no longer seems suitable for modern life. Both industry and ordinary people look to the administrative state, rather than legislators, for an immediate answer to their problems. And since 1984, the administrative state largely ran on one Supreme Court precedent: #ChevronUSA, Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council (#NRDC).
"That decision has now been overturned. Admin law is not always interesting, but the simple fact is when it comes to the day-to-day, agencies are the most impactful part of the federal government. No single policy writer at The Verge can fully articulate the impact of Friday’s Supreme Court decision and how profound its effects will be. The administrative state touches everything around us: net neutrality, climate change, #CleanAir and water, and what scant #ConsumerProtections we have.
"While the practice had been in place for decades before, it came to be known as Chevron deference after a 1984 case: Chevron v. NRDC. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Chevron, allowing the #RonaldReagan administration’s #industry-friendly Environmental Protection Agency to stick with a lax interpretation of the #CleanAirAct.
"Over the years, Chevron deference has enabled federal agencies to tackle all sorts of issues that legislators have yet to cover — from addressing greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change to regulating broadband access. As the conservative legal movement to disempower the administrative state grew, Chevron deference became — in certain circles — shorthand for #GovernmentOverreach.
"Before its decision to overturn Chevron, the Supreme Court had already dealt a blow to federal agencies’ regulatory authority by strengthening the 'major questions' doctrine in its 2022 decision in West Virginia v. EPA. According to the major questions doctrine, a federal agency shouldn’t have the leeway to craft regulation on an issue of major national significance if Congress hasn’t explicitly allowed it to do so in legislation.
"The same bloc of six #conservative justices that formed the majority in West Virginia v. EPA also overturned the longstanding precedent of #RoeVsWade — an even older case than Chevron — in the same month. When two cases calling for an end to Chevron deference worked their way up to the Supreme Court this year, the writing was on the wall — and once again, those same six justices overturned Chevron.
Impacts:
- #NetNeutrality
- The #environment and efforts to fight #ClimateChange
- Regulating #BigTech
- #TechWorkers on #visas and #immigration law
- #Labor and #WorkersRights
- The right to repair, #copyright, #PatentLaw, and the Apple Watch banhttps://www.theverge.com/24188365/chevron-scotus-net-neutrality-dmca-visa-fcc-ftc-epa
#DMCA #Chevron #PowerGrab #CorporateFascism #ChevronDeference #WaterIsLife #CleanWaterAct #SCOTUS #ScotusIsCorrupt #ScrotusSunday #ImpeachJusticeThomas #ImpeachJusticeAlito #KochBrothers
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What #SCOTUS just did to #broadband, the #RightToRepair, the #environment, and more
By overturning Chevron, the Supreme Court has declared war on an administrative state that touches everything from net neutrality to climate change.
By Verge Staff
Jun 28, 2024"Since the New Deal era, the bulk of the functioning US government is the administrative state — think the acronym soup of agencies like the #EPA, #FCC, #FTC, #FDA, and so on. Even when Capitol Hill is not mired in deep dysfunction, the speed at which Congress and the courts operate no longer seems suitable for modern life. Both industry and ordinary people look to the administrative state, rather than legislators, for an immediate answer to their problems. And since 1984, the administrative state largely ran on one Supreme Court precedent: #ChevronUSA, Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council (#NRDC).
"That decision has now been overturned. Admin law is not always interesting, but the simple fact is when it comes to the day-to-day, agencies are the most impactful part of the federal government. No single policy writer at The Verge can fully articulate the impact of Friday’s Supreme Court decision and how profound its effects will be. The administrative state touches everything around us: net neutrality, climate change, #CleanAir and water, and what scant #ConsumerProtections we have.
"While the practice had been in place for decades before, it came to be known as Chevron deference after a 1984 case: Chevron v. NRDC. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Chevron, allowing the #RonaldReagan administration’s #industry-friendly Environmental Protection Agency to stick with a lax interpretation of the #CleanAirAct.
"Over the years, Chevron deference has enabled federal agencies to tackle all sorts of issues that legislators have yet to cover — from addressing greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change to regulating broadband access. As the conservative legal movement to disempower the administrative state grew, Chevron deference became — in certain circles — shorthand for #GovernmentOverreach.
"Before its decision to overturn Chevron, the Supreme Court had already dealt a blow to federal agencies’ regulatory authority by strengthening the 'major questions' doctrine in its 2022 decision in West Virginia v. EPA. According to the major questions doctrine, a federal agency shouldn’t have the leeway to craft regulation on an issue of major national significance if Congress hasn’t explicitly allowed it to do so in legislation.
"The same bloc of six #conservative justices that formed the majority in West Virginia v. EPA also overturned the longstanding precedent of #RoeVsWade — an even older case than Chevron — in the same month. When two cases calling for an end to Chevron deference worked their way up to the Supreme Court this year, the writing was on the wall — and once again, those same six justices overturned Chevron.
Impacts:
- #NetNeutrality
- The #environment and efforts to fight #ClimateChange
- Regulating #BigTech
- #TechWorkers on #visas and #immigration law
- #Labor and #WorkersRights
- The right to repair, #copyright, #PatentLaw, and the Apple Watch banhttps://www.theverge.com/24188365/chevron-scotus-net-neutrality-dmca-visa-fcc-ftc-epa
#DMCA #Chevron #PowerGrab #CorporateFascism #ChevronDeference #WaterIsLife #CleanWaterAct #SCOTUS #ScotusIsCorrupt #ScrotusSunday #ImpeachJusticeThomas #ImpeachJusticeAlito #KochBrothers
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What #SCOTUS just did to #broadband, the #RightToRepair, the #environment, and more
By overturning Chevron, the Supreme Court has declared war on an administrative state that touches everything from net neutrality to climate change.
By Verge Staff
Jun 28, 2024"Since the New Deal era, the bulk of the functioning US government is the administrative state — think the acronym soup of agencies like the #EPA, #FCC, #FTC, #FDA, and so on. Even when Capitol Hill is not mired in deep dysfunction, the speed at which Congress and the courts operate no longer seems suitable for modern life. Both industry and ordinary people look to the administrative state, rather than legislators, for an immediate answer to their problems. And since 1984, the administrative state largely ran on one Supreme Court precedent: #ChevronUSA, Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council (#NRDC).
"That decision has now been overturned. Admin law is not always interesting, but the simple fact is when it comes to the day-to-day, agencies are the most impactful part of the federal government. No single policy writer at The Verge can fully articulate the impact of Friday’s Supreme Court decision and how profound its effects will be. The administrative state touches everything around us: net neutrality, climate change, #CleanAir and water, and what scant #ConsumerProtections we have.
"While the practice had been in place for decades before, it came to be known as Chevron deference after a 1984 case: Chevron v. NRDC. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Chevron, allowing the #RonaldReagan administration’s #industry-friendly Environmental Protection Agency to stick with a lax interpretation of the #CleanAirAct.
"Over the years, Chevron deference has enabled federal agencies to tackle all sorts of issues that legislators have yet to cover — from addressing greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change to regulating broadband access. As the conservative legal movement to disempower the administrative state grew, Chevron deference became — in certain circles — shorthand for #GovernmentOverreach.
"Before its decision to overturn Chevron, the Supreme Court had already dealt a blow to federal agencies’ regulatory authority by strengthening the 'major questions' doctrine in its 2022 decision in West Virginia v. EPA. According to the major questions doctrine, a federal agency shouldn’t have the leeway to craft regulation on an issue of major national significance if Congress hasn’t explicitly allowed it to do so in legislation.
"The same bloc of six #conservative justices that formed the majority in West Virginia v. EPA also overturned the longstanding precedent of #RoeVsWade — an even older case than Chevron — in the same month. When two cases calling for an end to Chevron deference worked their way up to the Supreme Court this year, the writing was on the wall — and once again, those same six justices overturned Chevron.
Impacts:
- #NetNeutrality
- The #environment and efforts to fight #ClimateChange
- Regulating #BigTech
- #TechWorkers on #visas and #immigration law
- #Labor and #WorkersRights
- The right to repair, #copyright, #PatentLaw, and the Apple Watch banhttps://www.theverge.com/24188365/chevron-scotus-net-neutrality-dmca-visa-fcc-ftc-epa
#DMCA #Chevron #PowerGrab #CorporateFascism #ChevronDeference #WaterIsLife #CleanWaterAct #SCOTUS #ScotusIsCorrupt #ScrotusSunday #ImpeachJusticeThomas #ImpeachJusticeAlito #KochBrothers
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What #SCOTUS just did to #broadband, the #RightToRepair, the #environment, and more
By overturning Chevron, the Supreme Court has declared war on an administrative state that touches everything from net neutrality to climate change.
By Verge Staff
Jun 28, 2024"Since the New Deal era, the bulk of the functioning US government is the administrative state — think the acronym soup of agencies like the #EPA, #FCC, #FTC, #FDA, and so on. Even when Capitol Hill is not mired in deep dysfunction, the speed at which Congress and the courts operate no longer seems suitable for modern life. Both industry and ordinary people look to the administrative state, rather than legislators, for an immediate answer to their problems. And since 1984, the administrative state largely ran on one Supreme Court precedent: #ChevronUSA, Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council (#NRDC).
"That decision has now been overturned. Admin law is not always interesting, but the simple fact is when it comes to the day-to-day, agencies are the most impactful part of the federal government. No single policy writer at The Verge can fully articulate the impact of Friday’s Supreme Court decision and how profound its effects will be. The administrative state touches everything around us: net neutrality, climate change, #CleanAir and water, and what scant #ConsumerProtections we have.
"While the practice had been in place for decades before, it came to be known as Chevron deference after a 1984 case: Chevron v. NRDC. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Chevron, allowing the #RonaldReagan administration’s #industry-friendly Environmental Protection Agency to stick with a lax interpretation of the #CleanAirAct.
"Over the years, Chevron deference has enabled federal agencies to tackle all sorts of issues that legislators have yet to cover — from addressing greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change to regulating broadband access. As the conservative legal movement to disempower the administrative state grew, Chevron deference became — in certain circles — shorthand for #GovernmentOverreach.
"Before its decision to overturn Chevron, the Supreme Court had already dealt a blow to federal agencies’ regulatory authority by strengthening the 'major questions' doctrine in its 2022 decision in West Virginia v. EPA. According to the major questions doctrine, a federal agency shouldn’t have the leeway to craft regulation on an issue of major national significance if Congress hasn’t explicitly allowed it to do so in legislation.
"The same bloc of six #conservative justices that formed the majority in West Virginia v. EPA also overturned the longstanding precedent of #RoeVsWade — an even older case than Chevron — in the same month. When two cases calling for an end to Chevron deference worked their way up to the Supreme Court this year, the writing was on the wall — and once again, those same six justices overturned Chevron.
Impacts:
- #NetNeutrality
- The #environment and efforts to fight #ClimateChange
- Regulating #BigTech
- #TechWorkers on #visas and #immigration law
- #Labor and #WorkersRights
- The right to repair, #copyright, #PatentLaw, and the Apple Watch banhttps://www.theverge.com/24188365/chevron-scotus-net-neutrality-dmca-visa-fcc-ftc-epa
#DMCA #Chevron #PowerGrab #CorporateFascism #ChevronDeference #WaterIsLife #CleanWaterAct #SCOTUS #ScotusIsCorrupt #ScrotusSunday #ImpeachJusticeThomas #ImpeachJusticeAlito #KochBrothers
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"REVEALED: I'm The Guy Behind The Viral "Insulin Is Free" Tweet" | by More Perfect Union on youTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUmIubcIkt8#EliLilly #insuline #usPolitics #politics #corporateGreed #twitterVerification #priceGouching #pharma #pharmaPatents #Patentlaw #pharmaIndustry #Unions
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"REVEALED: I'm The Guy Behind The Viral "Insulin Is Free" Tweet" | by More Perfect Union on youTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUmIubcIkt8#EliLilly #insuline #usPolitics #politics #corporateGreed #twitterVerification #priceGouching #pharma #pharmaPatents #Patentlaw #pharmaIndustry #Unions
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Welcome to my @Mastodon #medmastodon #lawprofs #lawprof #law #medicine account!
I am faculty in the Center for Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University School of Law. My research focuses on #FDALaw, #PHLaw, and #PatentLaw.
My bio can be found here: https://www.slu.edu/law/faculty/michael-sinha.php
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If you ran an electric current through a fine material like silk to make #masks that were almost transparent but that magnetised and electocuted the small particles of moisture such that…
You know what… no.
We only posted this here in case someone ever thought it could be #patented.
#publicRealmNowBitch #notCreative #fuckYourPatent #patents #semiTransparentMasks #transparentMasks #patentLaw