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According to a release, the invention relates to the company's chimeric and codon-optimized flavivirus replicons, expression plasmids, and RVPs used for infectivity, neutralization, enhancement and structure-function studies of dengue virus and its envelope protein .

Today I'm guest-blogging at Duets Blog, a publication of Minneapolis trademark-law firm Winthrop & Winestine.

Apple has never publicly acknowledged that it's working on a smartwatch, although it's widely expected that an " iWatch " could be introduced as soon as this September.

In his Patent and Trademark Law column, Robert C. Scheinfeld writes: Arguably, the Federal Circuit, the sole court of appeals for patent cases, has become less predictable and more divisive, and the Supreme Court's six unanimous patent decisions this term signal that the court's role has evolved to "prime resolver and clarifier" in the patent ... (more)

Six days after the Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank , which invalidated certain patents disclosing "a computer-implemented scheme for mitigating 'settlement risk,'" the USPTO issued its own Preliminary Examination Instructions .

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office served up further evidence on Tuesday that Apple is designing a smart watch when it awarded the company a patent for a wrist-worn gadget with a touchscreen and ability to communicate with a smartphone.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today issued patent #8,787,944, Method and System for Providing Enhanced Location Based Information for Wireless Handsets, to Rivada Networks.

The patent for "Network Based Authentication" protects CounterPath's means of authenticating a VoIP softphone application on a device through a GSM-based telephone network rather than through the traditional username and password.

Boulder-based Radish Systems says it has received a new patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, covering the company's integrated voice and data technology.

The patent-holding company MPHJ Technology Investments LLC has been on the defensive since last year, accused by state and federal officials of running an illegal intellectual property shakedown.

Research Triangle Park companies - especially those in tech and pharma - are no strangers to patents and their uses.

This patent describes a method for accelerating wound closure to improve wound healing.

The USPTO is requesting input on the "optimal" targets for its patent application pendency metrics.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has, after more than a year, allowed a patent application covering a wave thread technology that the founder of Van Cor Threads LLC believes will change the world of thread fasteners.

The term "Patent Troll" evokes a certain characteristic storybook image. James Logan of Personal Audio, LLC may not be that gnarled green monster hiding under a bridge, but to many Podcasters he is a similarly threatening beast.

Move over, Texas A&M. Or, as Forbes.com put it, this is certainly an atypical development.

According to patent published under the US Trademark and Patent Office, Apple has found a way to tweak the user interface of a mobile device including security protocols and other settings depending on its location.

The U.S. Supreme Court is on summer break for the moment, but its next term begins in October with a handful of very interesting cases.

An inter partes review proceeding allows a party to challenge the validity of a patent before the Patent Trial and Appeals Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office .

SPRING HILL, KANSAS, UNITED STATES, July 17, 2014 / EINPresswire.com / -- David Woodrow John is on a journey.