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]

The very novel patent entitled “Athletic performance user interface”, is going to impart a coach under the wearer’s feet in terms of developing a smart shoe by possessing the ability of measuring one’s athletic performance. It is proposed that the shoe will be equipped with sensors to help measure things such as speed, acceleration, direction of...

Horizon Pharma has announced receiving of a Notice of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for U.S. patent application number 14/816,674 (U.S. publication number 2015-0335605), entitled “Methods of Therapeutic Monitoring of Nitrogen Scavenging Drugs”. The patent covers Horizon’s U.S. approved medicine RAVICTI® (Glycerol Phenylbutyrate) Oral Liquid. The notice states the substantive examination...

Earlier this year, Beijing Key Industry IP Operations Fund and Sichuan IP Operations Fund were jointly funded by Chinese central and local governments which will lead to the emergence of new phase of knowledge-based economy seem as beneficial for intellectual property [more].