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Boston Scientific Agrees to Purchase Majority Stake in M.I. Tech as M&A Deals Are Expected to Pick Up
On June 15, 2022, Boston Scientific entered into a definitive agreement to purchase a majority stake in M.I.Tech Co., Ltd, a publicly traded Korean medical device...
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Just the other week, Ohio State University seems to have ended a three-year-old rivalry, not with another university but... Read More »
Startups face several challenges nowadays and IP protection is one of them. Especially if you aim to attract inventors and grow rapidly... Read More »
Tomorrow we will release our second annual Trademark Prosecution Intelligence Report. The report focuses on trademarks filed in the last five... Read More »
Meta’s financial reports for the first quarter of 2022 have been published recently and so far, its Reality Labs... Read More »
Among the first things you think when you are building your startup, surely logo and business name come right after the product or service ... Read More »
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Jun 10, 2022
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Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals L.P. v. U.S. Venture, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2020-1640, -1641 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 29... Read More »
Last week we released our 4th annual Patent Prosecution Report that covers the patent prosecution landscape in the last five year, between January... Read More »
To enjoy the privileges of copyright protection, registration is not obligatory, however you see more and more people as well as companies ... Read More »
ITC Administrative Law Judge Sandra "Dee" Lord that was appointed in 2013, already retired in early April. Soon after that, a... Read More »
You have to meet three conditions in order to achieve trade secret status, protect the information from being disclosed, the secret must... Read More »
Computers nowadays can produce music, poems as well as paint, sometimes even better than humans and all of the above qualifies as... Read More »
Back in January, the Japan-based anti-piracy group CODA (Content Overseas Distribution Association) announced that by April they would... Read More »
The Federal Circuit issued numerous precedential opinions last week, two of which answered long simmering questions about inter partes reviews (IPRs). Below we... Read More »
Patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets are the main means in a society that grants ownership to inventions and ideas which are always huge benefits to ... Read More »
Everyone lately has been really passionate about the blockchain technology but what is it and how it can help the intellectual property world? To put it in... Read More »
Nowadays internet marketing has gained huge importance especially after the pandemic during which the ecommerce begun a rapid growth. One of the best ways to... Read More »
Trade secrets are an old form of IP that some people argue it dates back to Roman times. They have always been a choice for people who want to protect their... Read More »
You have probably heard a lot about NFTs lately, but what are they indeed? Non-fungible token many might answer, but this still doesn’t make you understand ... Read More »
Trade secrets can be grouped in two kinds based on the reasons why their owners choose trade secret over patent. In the first group you would find different... Read More »
We have analyzed all the patent-related CAFC appeals, originating from the PTAB, ITC or district courts. The analysis covers a 5-year period, from January 1, 2016... Read More »
