patent
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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
The takeaway for brand managers: Get in the loop on patent applications if you’re not already, and be prepared if they raise questions about hot-button issues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 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
Amazon once filed a patent application for “hi-tech buzzing wristbands,” as one headline put it, “that bosses can use to track workers and order them around.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Drummers liked to flirt, were fresh-shaved, and wore suits, patent leather shoes, and big smiles.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
In Friday's verdict, external, jurors did not find that Apple had infringed the patents in question willingly.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 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 announcement also noted GoPro’s imaging and optical technology, as well as its more than 2,500 U.S. patents.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
A firm can secure this monopoly power through patents, but that wasn’t the case with the second-line TB drugs.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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
Also in 2023, engineering firm Hermann Ultraschall bought the rights to develop a patented ultrasonic paper sealing technology, a process which it likens to welding.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
In 1832, wizard Abel Treetops of Cincinnati claimed to have patented a method of taming Wampus Cats for use as guards over wizarding houses.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
Knight had to go to court to fight a former work colleague, Charles Annan, from patenting the idea himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
In his spare time, he enjoys inventing and patenting original ideas.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
But manufacturers have long tweaked the delivery methods, patenting the changes, in ways that sometimes make the drugs more convenient to administer.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 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
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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