Prominent IP Updates on Jan 20, 2015

Magic Leap’s Patents Are a Crazy Vision of the Augmented Reality Future

Posted on the USPTO website on Thursday, these patents are interesting if only for the fact that they give us at least some idea what Magic Leap is thinking in terms of its AR interface. The patents cover possible leisure, commercial, medical and fitness applications for the proposed headset (pictured above), and they are pretty out there.

Fuisz Pharma LLC Announces New Patent Allowance for Its Helicopter(TM) Tablet Shape With Improved Swallowability

Fuisz Pharma LLC announced today that it has received a notice of allowance from the USPTO in connection with its utility patent application entitled “Solid Dosage Form That Promotes Reliable Oral, Esophageal and GI Transit”

Hyundai posts biggest gain in global patent filings

Hyundai Motor Co. posted the biggest gains in the number of patent filings over the past five years, narrowing the gap with industry leader Toyota, according to an analysis of global patent applications released today. The report by Thomson Reuters IP & Science showed technology advances in telematics and driver assistance systems are gathering steam as the enablers of future connected and self-driving cars.

Swiss firm files patent suit against Nespresso

Swiss firm Ethical Coffee Company said on Monday (Jan 19) it had lodged a complaint in a Paris court against Nestle for patent infringement with its Nespresso coffee machines.

Microsoft patents theater mode for your phone

Microsoft patented a way to make your phone less noticeable and disruptive when you’re in certain environments (Microsoft calls it “inconspicuous mode”). You can use it at a movie theater, a dinner date or at home about to go to bed.

Mindef refutes false allegations in patent infringement suit by mobilestats

The Ministry of Defence (MINDEF), through its Facebook page CyberPioneer, has refuted what it said were false allegations in certain online articles, that the mobile battalion casualty station (BCS) bought by Mindef had infringed MobileStats Technologies’ patent for its mobile clinic, “Mobile First Aid Post”.

Suven Life Sciences granted patents for neurodegenerative drug

Pharmaceutical firm Suven Life Sciences has been granted four product patents – one each by Australia and Hong Kong and two by Japan for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.

UQM Technologies Granted Patent on Innovative Permanent Magnet Electric Motor Design that Allows the Use of Non-Rare Earth Magnets

UQM Technologies Inc. announced today that it was granted a U.S. patent for its electric and hybrid electric vehicle motor design using non-rare earth magnets.

Further US Patent Grant for Sareum’s Kinase Inhibitors

Sareum,the specialist cancer drug discovery business, is pleased to announce that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued notification that a further patent has been granted for one of Sareum’s key drug discovery inventions.

New Provisional Patents Filed for Pharmaceutical Cannabidiol (CBD) Formulation Consisting of Ibuprofen & CBD Compounds Aimed At Treating Pain

Stevia Corp. an international farm management and healthcare company focused on the commercial development of products that support a healthy lifestyle, including stevia and hemp and their compounds, is pleased to announce the filing of a second important provisional patent application with the USPTO for the treatment of pain using ibuprofen and Cannabidiol (CBD).

MMRGlobal Proceeds With $30 Million Patent Licensing Case and Files Three New Federal Appeals

MMRGlobal, Inc. through its wholly owned subsidiary, MyMedicalRecords, Inc. (collectively, “MMR”), today announced that following the California Court of Appeal’s finding that the trial court erred in granting Surgery Center Management, LLC’s (“SCM”) motion for summary adjudication, the trial court vacated its order, thereby paving the way for MMR to have the opportunity to proceed with its $30,000,000 patent licensing case against SCM.

Apple Files Update to “iPhone” Trademark with U.S. Trademark Office

USPTO published Apple’s latest trademark filing for “iPhone” which was filed late yesterday. Although Apple’s “iPhone” is already a Registered Trademark, they’re now technically seeking to file “iPhone” under a new International Class for specific added protection.

Janssen, J&J Innovation ink dealwith Vedanta Biosciences

Janssen Biotech, Inc. has announced a license agreement with Vedanta Biosciences for the company’s lead microbiome pharmaceutical candidate (VE202), which in published preclinical studies has demonstrated efficacy in models of autoimmune disease.

Tessera Technologies Reaches Global Settlement with Amkor

Tessera Technologies, Inc. today announced that its subsidiary, Tessera, Inc., has entered into an agreement with Amkor Technology, Inc. to settle all pending litigation between Amkor and Tessera, Inc.

Fossil Bay licenses well gas injection technology

Fossil Bay Energy LLC, an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technologies and services company, has entered into a license agreement with Weatherford Technology Holdings LLC. Fossil Bay has been granted the exclusive right in the U.S. to make, use and sell exhaust gas handling equipment that incorporates three Weatherford patents in the field of use of oil and gas reservoir injection and pressurization applications.

Catapult Licenses Nobel Prize-Winning Intellectual Property for Cell Bank

The Cell Therapy Catapult which is focused on the development of the UK cell therapy industry to increase the nation’s health and wealth has signed a patent licence agreement with iPS Academia Japan which represents a pivotal step in the development of the UK’s GMP induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell bank.

Morocco recognizes European patents as national patents

The President of the European Patent Office (EPO), Benoît Battistelli, and the Moroccan Minister of Industry, Trade, Investment and the Digital Economy Moulay Hafid Elalamy announced today that an agreement allowing European patents to be validated in Morocco will enter into force on 1 March 2015.

Apple patents eye-tracking gaze controls for iOS, Mac devices

Apple on Tuesday was granted a patent for an advanced gaze-tracking graphical user interface that could one day see implementation in Macs, iPhones, iPads or even a future version of the Apple TV.

FICO Awarded Four New Patents for Network Protection, Fraud Detection, Personalized Marketing and Real-Time Analytic Discovery

FICO the predictive analytics and decision management software company, today announced that it has been awarded four new patents related to fraud detection and advanced analytics. FICO now holds 170 US and foreign patents, and has 93 pending patent applications.

Global patents reflect advances in connected and self-driving cars

Technology advances in telematics and driver assistance systems are gathering steam as the enablers of future connected and self-driving cars, according to an analysis of global patent applications released Monday.