As per the leading international authority on the disease, the involved cost of revolutionary and immensely expensive new cancer drugs could be reduced by governments by lengthening the involved patents. Dr Vishva Dixit stated on a visit to Dublin, that the cost of potentially lifesaving treatments should not be an obstruction to access.[more]

A patent involving CRISPR has been issued to a biotech startup, Caribou Biosciences in Berkeley, which was co-founded by Jennifer Doudna. The University of California, Berkeley, scientist stated that the CRISPR was invented along with French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier, and the claim was disputed by rival researcher, Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute and the...

Nobilis Therapeutics, a biotechnology company specializing in clinical development involving medical inventions which are noble-gas based filed a patent involving its proprietary drug NDTX-001. The drug is expected to inhibit neuroinflammation. [More]

A divisional patent application filed by GSK at the Kolkata patent office was rejected on the grounds that composition, manufacturing method, its use and method of treatment falls within the definition of single inventive concept. The authority also alleged that the claims of the divisional application were similar to that of the mother application. [More]

A drug named Orfadin® (nitisinone) an oral suspension formulation for the treatment of Hereditary Tyrosinaemia type-1 (HT-1) has been granted a patent by the EPO. Hereditary Tyrosinaemia type-1 (HT-1) is a rare genetic disease affecting children. [More]

A patent application by the Khan Academy in the US has raised serious doubts regarding the patentability of teaching methods. The online education academy has filed an application for patenting their educational videos. [More]

Who invented CRISPER? This has become one of the unsolved mysteries of the patent arena. An interference proceeding will be launched by the USPTO in order to resolve the impasse. [More]

Ace filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has been sued by being accused for stealing the plot of the much acclaimed and one of the highest grosser movies Django Unchained. A father and son duo has sued the filmmaker by accusing of lifting their project “Freedom”. [More]

“Project Wing” announced in August 2014 is Google’s secretive drone delivery project for saving the articles securely. The delivery receptacle is designed to take the package and deposit it into a safe location or a storage area. [More]

The patent portrays a futuristic car with a detachable rear wheel that can quickly convert into an electric unicycle [more]