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Federal regulations may be hampering innovation in the Department of Energy's national laboratories, through which the government invests in energy, science and weapons research, according to a new report from American Action Forum. The national laboratories grew out of U.S. funded research into the atomic bomb.
Google has reportedly joined a coalition with several other prominent tech companies supporting an effort to ensure that all touchscreen tools known as styluses work across the board for every major firm. Apple, Microsoft and Samsung have not signed on to the agreement known as the Universal Stylus Initiative , according to BBC.
The guidance provides an overview of scientific considerations for demonstrating the interchangeability of a biosimilar product to its reference product. As we previously reported , over 50 public comments were filed in response to the draft guidance, including multiple biopharma industry organizations , several groups representing physicians , and numerous biopharma companies .
Imagine you and your neighbor have a dispute over the boundary between your backyards. After trying and failing to work it out amicably, you sue your neighbor for encroaching on your property.
Imagine you and your neighbor have a dispute over the boundary between your backyards. After trying and failing to work it out amicably, you sue your neighbor for encroaching on your property.
The year 2017 was a critical one for patents - limited legal monopolies granted to inventors to control the market for their innovations. Notably, the U.S. Supreme Court decided two cases this year that continued a trend of reining in so-called patent trolls , companies that buy up wildly overbroad patents and then sue anyone and everyone for infringement, looking for easy settlements.
Early in the first season of "Mindhunter," Netflix's new show from David Fincher about criminal profiling and the invention of the serial killer, FBI agent Holden Ford finds himself trying to understand why crime doesn't seem to make sense anymore. Beset by spree killers, men who commit grotesque acts of violence against women, and crimes that seem to lack any social or economic motivation at all, Ford is convinced that the meaninglessness of these crimes reflects something about a society that seems to have lost its moral center.
The act was the second major law he signed to reform the tax code for the American people. Republicans and Democrats came together to cut taxes for hardworking families in 1981, and again in 1986 to simplify the tax code, so that everyone could get a fair shake.
It's been a few weeks since the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe announced a landmark partnership with drug giant Allergan. Allergan, based in Ireland, makes Botox and other hugely popular medicines.
A statue of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle, has been unveiled in central Moscow in a controversial ceremony that merged military pomp with religious ritual. The nine-metre monument depicts Kalashnikov clutching his eponymous automatic weapon.
Jerry Brown, who has twice in my lifetime been the two-term governor of California , once said something that I love. He said he learned more from James Taylor's song "Fire and Rain," than he learned in Yale Law School.
In the wake of the natural disaster in the Gulf Coast, people across the U.S. have sent clothes, supplies, food and financial donations to those affected by Hurricane Harvey. Within the last year, Becky Henning has been working to brand and manufacture a product she helped invent called the Shower Towel.
The visionary in question was a man named Philo T. Farnsworth. Farnsworth was born in 1906 and grew up working his family's potato farm; in 1927, he built the one of the first working television cameras.
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The US Patent Act [1] gives patent holders the right to prevent others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention in the United States or importing the invention into the United States. [2] The premise behind granting these rights in new inventions is to encourage inventors to disclose new technology to the public by offering the inventors a limited monopoly on the use of such technology.
On July 13, 2017, The Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet of the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on The Impact of Bad Patents on American Businesses. Such a loaded topic should strike fear in the hearts of the many of us who work diligently to protect our clients' legitimate inventions.
Activists and internet companies are protesting Wednesday a proposed quash of net neutrality protections by the FCC. Here's what the likes of Amazon, Netflix and internet users say would happen to your internet access with the rollback.
A super-fast form of transportation involving giant tubes, pods and air pressure would have a stop in SouthCoast if built in the Northeast, among other nationwide locations, should a company making the technology pick a Somerset woman's proposal. Holly McNamara, a Select Board official in Somerset, said she feels one step closer to seeing that become a reality after a visit to Washington, D.C., last week to make her case to a panel of judges.
A subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company filed a patent February for a "huggable," "soft body," robot in hopes of eventually introducing a family-friendly therapeutic robot into the market. The inventors of Disney Enterprises say there is a "need for robots that can safely interact with humans, and, particularly, with children," because other designs do not account for comfortability and direct human contact, according to the official filing.
Pennsylvania is a state of many firsts. It had the first hospital, theater, zoo and commercial pretzel factory in the country, among many other inventions and historic moments.