According to the latest intellectual property rankings, Apple has been awarded 1,938 U.S. patents in 2015 thus placing it at No. 11 with respect to newly earned inventions. In the top was perennial intellectual property leader IBM, which was awarded 7,355 patents in 2015 and the second place holder was Samsung, with 5,072 U.S. patents...

Release of suit against AngioDynamics was not declared by a Delaware district court judge over patents for devices installed below the skin for effortlessness drug delivery. C.R. Bard Inc. stated that AngioDynamics had infringed on patents issued in 2013 and 2014 and AngioDynamics further added the claims as ineligible to be patented due to loss of description...

IIa Technologies Pte Ltd, a synthetic diamond manufacturing company co-founded by Mumbai-based Vishal Mehta is facing litigation from De Beers subsidiary and accused by Element Six Technologies Ltd, for alleged infringement of its patents for proprietary synthetic diamond products. The infringing company was able to produce purest and rarest form of diamond – called type...

Iowa State University has been granted 31 patents in 2014 and coupled with the University of South Carolina and the University of Arkansas on the list of top 100 universities around the world granted utility patents. As per the president, Steven Leath, an extensive assortment of “technology transfer” is involved in the 31 patents [more].

3M has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Xpel Technologies Corp., a San Antonio-based company that deals with manufacturing of films to protect auto paint and headlights. It has been alleged in the lawsuit that Xpel’s XPF paint protection film infringes on one of the 3M patents [more].

SBFM has obtained all of the outstanding rights, title and interest in entirely all worldwide patents for the Company’s Adva-27a anticancer compound. The Patent Purchase Agreement affords SBFM with direct ownership of all issued and pending Adva-27a related patents [more].

In December 2015, Microsoft sued Corel over infringement of nine of its patents. Some of Corel’s applications such as Corel Write and Corel Calculate are using Microsoft’s patented technologies as per Microsoft. One of the patents was a software slider that enables users to quickly zoom-in and zoom-out [more].

The company has been granted a US patent for its method of detecting fragments of chromosomes, known as nucleosomes, circulating in the blood, which indicates that cancer is present. The patent number is 9222937 for the “Method for Detecting Nucleosomes” and it runs to August 2032 [more].

The biopharmaceutical company has attained an elite worldwide license to several patents from the nonprofit Research Development Foundation (RDF), and the company develops gene therapy treatments for congestive heart failure and other chronic diseases. Along with group of patents, Renova Therapeutics’ has expanded its portfolio in the cardiovascular and metabolic disease space, thus imparting future...

The granted US patents defend the company’s own 4D respiratory tracking technology, which permits its SPiN Thoracic Navigation System in efficiently tracking a patient’s respiration during navigational procedures. Veran CEO Jason Pesterfield stated that the patented technology (new software) will fundamentally assist lung specialists in targeting solitary pulmonary nodules (SPN’s) and more quickly diagnose patients with...