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The Expanse portfolio now numbers twenty four patents, which will serve as a foundation for a company offering personalized medicine products.

At the 2013 Samsung Analyst meeting it was revealed that the company will not be satisfied with its current devices in the wearables market - namely the Samsung Galaxy Gear.

Akamai is the licensee of MIT's patents for that solve some problems associated with distributing large amount of data to individual servers and endpoints in a large computer network .

Did the 9th Circuit's opinion last week in Petroliam Nasional Berhad v. GoDaddy.com really "kill" secondary liability for trademark infringement under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act ? Or did the court merely, as seems to be the case, engage in a bit of overkill? As our book speeds its way to the printer, the Ninth Circuit has made ... (more)

Former Google executive Michelle Lee has been put in charge of the U.S. Patent & Trademark office.

The patented technology enables consumer devices to automatically and accurately georeference electromagnetic signal sources deep indoors.

Within Green Key's Block PoolSM , a quote management platform used by OTC derivative participants, brokers are able to rank traders in the matching algorithm according to performance metrics such as their "decline ratio" by dragging them up or down in a GUI.

A patent application called " Graphical user interface element incorporating real-time environment data " published Thursday by the US Patent and Trademark Office describes a method to automatically update your browser's interface in real time.

As public enthusiasm continues to grow over bitcoin, the digital crypto-currency, JPMorgan Chase seeks to patent an online payment system that would allow digital wallets, as well as anonymity - the most attractive feature to internet users.

In Daiichi Sankyo Co. v. Rea , the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected the plaintiff's arguments that equitable tolling should apply to permit its claim for additional Patent Term Adjustment under Wyeth .

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In June, Apple filed a new patent application [ PDF ] with the European Patent Office describing a system using an in-car accessory with an iOS device to set up geofences to activate various vehicle functions as a user approaches a vehicle.

Courtesy the U.S. Patent Office -- Pictured is Michelle Lee, newly promoted as deputy director of the U.S. Patent Office.

Former Google Inc. executive Michelle Lee has been named deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and will run the agency until a new director is named, the USPTO said on Wednesday.

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Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing potential best-in-class oncology therapies, today announced that it has been issued United States Patent, No.

Pensions First Analytics, a financial technology business, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued US Patent 8,566,206 covering its web-based platform for the risk management and reporting of pension plan assets, liabilities and risk.

MANCHESTER, Conn.-The U.S. Patent Office has found that the request for re-examination of Seiko Epson's patent 6,019,470 filed by Ocuco Inc. on May 21 raises "a substantial new question of patentability," and has recommended that all 20 claims in the patent be canceled in a "Non-Final Office Action" published in October.

The vice chancellor for research and engagement at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is being honored for his contributions in innovation and technology development with the election to the 2013 class of National Academy of Inventors Fellows Taylor Eighmy, vice chancellor for research and engagement at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, ... (more)

The FT's Tracy Alloway reports today that the U.S. Patent Office has published a filing from JP Morgan regarding a payment service that some have some are saying bares a striking resemblance to Bitcoin.