Posts Tagged: medical
TTAB Says No Likely Confusion Between Rap Producer Dr. Dre and OB/GYN Specialist Dr. Drai
On May 3rd, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) issued a decision in a trademark opposition proceeding which was petitioned by Andre Young, the rapper and …
Earle Dickson Invents Band-Aid® Bandages to Promote Healing
December 28 marks the anniversary of the issuance of a patent covering a bandage technology commonly known as the Band-Aid®, invented at Johnson & Johnson... In order to speed …
Superbugs Require New Weapons: Strong, Effective Intellectual Property Rights May Be Our Best, Last Hope
The dangers of killer germs and superbugs are not limited to bird flu in China, Ebola in West Africa, Zika in South America and MERS in the …
Patenting Costs in ASEAN: Upcoming Global Economic Powerhouse
Founded in 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is a regional organization that aims to “accelerate economic growth, …
District Court Broadens Scope of Patent Ineligibility Under § 101 for a Treatment Method
The '156 patent discloses methods of treating and/or preventing metabolic diseases, particularly diabetes, in patients for whom metformin therapy is inappropriate due to intolerability or contraindication …
Medical software provides life-saving results, not abstract ideas
Those who make the argument that medical software is abstract, or trivial, are just wrong. Medical software has been developed to benefit both patients and medical practitioners …
Swiss researchers make breakthrough in medical microrobot technology
ETHZ, one of the Swiss universities involved in the recent microbot breakthrough, received a patent in 2013 for a related technology. U.S. Patent No. 8405256, entitled Wireless Resonant …
Strength of IBM’s Watson Health seen in Bausch & Lomb iOS app for cataract surgeries
IBM has been wading further into the medical fields over the past few years thanks to the strength of its cognitive computing division, especially the rise of …
Innovation Lessons From a Billionaire
I did not start out to be an inventor,” writes the billionaire inventor and spinal surgeon Gary K. Michelson in the preface to a newly-published book entitled …
Travelers Early Severity Predictor helps to identify chronic pain, reducing opioid addiction risk
We reached out to Travelers and were able to confirm through a spokesperson that two patent applications published this year by the U.S. Patent and Trademark …
A look at treatments for hepatitis C, America’s top infectious disease killer
The FDA has been pretty active this year in approving new tests and treatments designed to help identify and eliminate the hepatitis C virus in patients. Swiss …
Blue Ribbon Panel of Advisors Announced for Biden Cancer Moonshot Initiative
Earlier this week the National Cancer Institute (NCI), which is part of the National Institutes of Health, announced a Blue Ribbon Panel of scientific experts, cancer leaders, …
Amici led by Eli Lilly file brief in Supreme Court in support of Sequenom certiorari petition
Rather than use the word 'conflate' to describe the mongrel mixture of patentability requirements the Supreme Court undertook in Mayo, the Eli Lilly brief characterizes the analysis …
IBM hits torrid patent pace in Q1 2016, invents cloud management and automotive tech
2016 has gotten off to a strong start for the company as the patent portfolio analysis tools at Innography are showing us that IBM has already earned 1,927 U.…
Injectable migraine treatment being developed by Alder, Eli Lilly, Amgen and others
Migraines are the result of a hereditary neurological disorder which causes certain areas of the brain to become over-excited, creating the throbbing pain and increased sensitivity to …
