patent
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An adjunct professor at Pepperdine’s Caruso School of Law, he’s taught ethics, antitrust, copyright and patent law.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
WIPO, the UN patent and innovation agency, said AI was shortening the paths of discovery and fuelling much of the world's economic growth.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
In November 2025 a judge ordered Apple to pay $634m, external to medical tech firm Masimo after a jury found it had infringed a patent for blood-oxygen reading tech.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Walmart told the Financial Times in March that neither patent was about dynamic pricing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
It was nothing a good physic or a patent medicine wouldn’t take care of.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
Analysts at Barclays say investors it’s talked to are confused about the direction of the company and how it can navigate when key patents expire in 2030 and 2032.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
About four years after the iPhone launched in 2007, Apple sued Samsung, alleging the Korean company copied the look, product design, packaging and user interface of the iPhone and iPad, violating its patents and trademarks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
When a country has a relative scarcity of younger workers, that country’s technology sector rises to the occasion, resulting in “more labor-saving patents and growing high-tech activity.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
The intellectual property formerly owned by Zume – more than 300 patents – was bought up, external by Miso Robotics, of California.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
And some enforce their patents aggressively: Myriad Genetics, which holds the patents on the BRCAi and BRCA2 genes responsible for most cases of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, charges $3,000 to test for the genes.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
Stafford and Adams also had one of their patented over-the-shoulder touchdown connections in the corner of the end zone, which made it 21-3 in the third quarter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Some of these, the authors own, verge on “technological gigantism,” such as a seven-bell trumpet patented in 1859 by Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
If a patented drug is listed by the U.S. government as in short supply, compounders can legally produce it.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Behind him, a largely automated line of chemical vats is off limits to cameras because the process is patented by a Canadian company, Excir.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
“Hey, guys,” he says in his patented I’m-Simon-Spier-and-I’m-so-casual-I’m-hardly-even-squeaking voice.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
At Fudan, Lu has continued to research infectious diseases, recently patenting technology for an improved Covid-19 antiviral, which was licensed by an American company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
In his spare time, he enjoys inventing and patenting original ideas.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
With the help of hid dad, he setup Arcane Footwear in 2021 after patenting a magnetic spring cushion which can be used in trainers.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2024
"My father absolutely just did not have any interest personally in patenting and in the vaccine being patented."
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2023
Scientists are quick to point out that John Moore’s cells were exceptional, and few cell lines are actually worth patenting.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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