The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued new supplemental examination guidance significantly affecting design patent ...

For founders and early employees of pharmaceutical startups, few assets are as critical—or as vulnerable—as your intellectual property (IP). Securing and defending your innovations is not only central ...

In India, China and several other nations, Novo Nordisk is on the verge of losing patent protection for its blockbuster ...

Pattern Computer(R), Inc. ("Pattern" or "the Company"), the global leader in Pattern Discovery, today announced expanded global intellectual property protection for its investigational cancer therapy ...

IN THE MID-1990s, James A. Thomson of the University of Wisconsin helped launch the field of regenerative medicine by isolating embryonic stem cells and perfecting methods for self-perpetuating them ...

“The tension between patents and trade dress protection is most evident when the alleged trade dress (or aspects thereof) has been disclosed in a utility patent.” Patents and trademarks protect ...

The Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property has granted a Family 4 patent covering lead compounds RECCE 327 and ...

Years before semaglutide became a blockbuster drug for Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharma giant had the chance to maintain its patent in Canada but didn’t pay a small fee to do so, according to a recent ...

A registered community design, often referred to as an "RCD," is the European equivalent to a U.S. design patent. Similar to a U.S. design patent, an RCD only protects the ornamental or outward ...