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Zhang et al's #PatentLandscape for #CollaborativeRobots, was dominated by technologies that enable collaborative systems, such as the #InternetOfThings. These #EnablingTechnologies are highly valuable. bit.ly/3VVQlgv #Cobots #Robotics #AI #IoT #SystemArchitecture #HumanMachineInteraction

Studio GOGO's Lego jewellery is "made to be played with" Plastic Lego bricks replace gemstones in these customisable rings by Berlin jewellery brand Studio GOGO, allowing wearers to change up the design as they see fit.

Create your own Lego® jewellery and invoke those memories. Lego® bricks replace gemstones in these customisable rings by jewellery brand Studio GOGO, allowing wearers to change their design. It all started with Interlego AG's #Patent US3005282. bit.ly/437reuQ #Innovation #Invention #Creativity

The 'Leonardo effect': does artistic imagination fuel scientific and technical #Innovation? Wojan used the #AnnualBusinessSurvey and traffic to art websites sorted by ZIP code, to test whether artistic training promotes the generation of #Novelty. bit.ly/48fHltR #Creativity #Patents #Invention

Have top selling US #Drugs from 1988-2020 come from #ClosedInnovation or #OpenInnovation? Hsueh et al found that 78% came from #Collaborations. bit.ly/4gAfeaO #Patents #FDAOrangeBook #StrategicAliance #InnovationSystem #CollaborativeModels #OrganisationalPartnership #Coopetition #Network #Contract

3D-printed tennis balls aim to match performance of traditional balls Central Saint Martins graduate Noé Chouraqui has developed a 3D-printed alternative to standard-issue tennis balls made from a bio-based, recyclable filament.

Is there a more #Sustainable alternative to conventional tennis balls? According to Chouraqui, a design graduate, a #Compostable, #3DPrinted version can be made. #Patents on tennis balls include Dunlop's GB714481. bit.ly/4mZ9MAI #Invention #Innovation #Recycling #CarbonFootprint #PolylacticAcid

Could acquisitions reduce #Innovation rather than bringing knowledge into #Biotechnology companies? Verginer et al found a 13.5% increase in #Inventor turnover and a 35% decrease in citation-weighted #Patents. bit.ly/46617FD #BiotechPatents #BiotechnologyPatents #R&D #Research #OrganisationalChange

Meta predicts replacing keyboard and mouse with signal-sensing wristband Technology company Meta has said "the wrist is the key" to the future of human-computer interaction after its engineers created a gesture-sensing wristband prototype.

Who needs a keyboad and mouse when hand gestures will suffice? Meta's #SmartWristband enables muscle-reading technology e.g. in US12089953. bit.ly/3HLzhGf #Patents #SurfaceElectromyography #sEMG #WearableTechnology #GestureSensing #GestureControl #HumanComputerInteraction #BiosensingTechnology

Were US Patent examiners influenced by the home region of inventors? Coluccia found that they had granted more patents to inventors located within 150 km of their #CityOfOrigin. bit.ly/4mnyPgM #Innovation #EconomicGrowth #EmploymentRate #Machinery #Chemistry #Agriculture

Nabisaalu found that women #Entrepreneurs rely on internal networks, whereas men used external networks and out-patented women even in female-dominated fields. bit.ly/4mhZ8UT #WomenInIP #WomenInScience #WomenInTech #Gender #Patent #Innovation #Invention #EntrepreneurshipInThePopulation #EPOPSurvey

Concerned about inventive cannibalism? Cerny discusses how to support human creativity, whilst using #AI to generate #Patent claims. bit.ly/469bUjS #PatentSearch #Innovation #Invention #ArtificialIntelligence #PromptEngineering #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #ChatGPT #Gemini

Image of a car with bibliographic details of Patent Pledge article

Was the Tesla #PatentPledge with its #GoodFaith condition a good offer? Wang analysed the pledge not to sue those who use its patented technology in good faith. bit.ly/4kBwJbl #ElectricVehicle #EV #Patent #Infringement #Litigation #Innovation #Licence #Competition #EnergyPolicyResearchGroup

Graph showing indefinite and definite phrases from US patent claims

The PEDANTIC dataset from Knappich et al illustrated some reasons for #Patent application rejection by the #USPTO due to ambiguous claims. bit.ly/4leG6im #Indefiniteness #Definiteness #PatentDefinitenessExaminationCorpus #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #AI #ManualOfPatentExaminingProcedure

Patent image of ice cream van incorporating a tub of ice cream

"Summertime Fun #Patents Coloring Book" from Borrego would make a great holiday book. bit.ly/45LicpE #PatentCulture #Education

AI image consisting of a human head with cogs, next to the reference by Villegas

Should #AI #Inventors get #MoralOwnership of a #Patent as made clear by the #PannuFactors, if they have made a significant contribution? This is the view of Villegas Tovar et al. #ArtificialIntelligence #EconomicRights #USPTO bit.ly/4nn91Ck

Patent families for mAbs from 4 biotech companies

Comparing #mAb and #Chemical #Innovation, expertise in mAbs is concentrated in a few, primarily #HighIncomeNations, according to Motta-Santos et al. This contrasts with broader distribution in the #ChemicalDrug sector. bit.ly/3Zxi1dG #MonoclonalAntibody #PatentAnalysis #Chemistry #BiotechPatents

Researcher receives funding from ARIA to unlock potential of plants Schulich Medicine & Dentistry professor Bogumil Karas awarded $1.5M to optimize plants by creating genomes from scratch

Imagine a world where #Crops can thrive regardless of climate or disease and provide all the nutrients our bodies need. Researchers at #Western are now part of an UK initiative funded by @aria-research.bsky.social. #ARIA #Innovation #Invention #SyntheticPlants #ChloroplastGenome. bit.ly/3HoTph5

Blockchain image with nodes and connecting lines

Bonnet et al interviewed experts in #Blockchain in #IntellectualProperty management. They included blockchain visionaries, sceptics, strategists and opportunistic followers. Their ideas could promote blockchain innovations in the #IP field. bit.ly/4mHPADB #Patents #NFT #SmartContracts #Tokenisation

Blockchain image as a background for biography of Pooja Deswal

We are delighted to welcome Pooja Deswal to the #Electronics team at victorgreen.co.uk. She holds a Master’s in Electronics and #CommunicationEngineering and an #LLB from MDU, India. She is also a qualified Indian #PatentAgent. bit.ly/3Nyo23O #PatentAnalyst #ComputerScience #AI #MachineLearning

Mortar board hat with the Grading patents reference

The article "Grading Patents" by Baharad et al proposes a reform of the US #Patent system by introducing a grading mechanism for patents; the #USPTO would assign a grade from 1 to 5. #ProtectionTerm would depend on grade, potentially 4 to 20 years. bit.ly/3GJ26lY #PatentExaminer #PatentTerm

DNA double helix and Stierle reference Addressing the Gene Therapy Bottleneck in the EU: Patent vs. Regulatory Incentives

Stierle et al outline an issue at the intersection of #IP and EU #HealthcareRegulation. The EU lags behind the US in #PersonalisedMedicine and #GeneTherapy. They suggest that regulatory reform may be more effective at overcoming innovation bottlenecks than changes to #PatentLaw. bit.ly/42Eo9CX

Magnifying glass used to search for prior art

John R. Thomas raised some issues about how the #USPTO handles "secret #PriorArt". He suggested that prior art should only count if a skilled #PatentSearcher could have reasonably located it, similar to the "reasonably accessible" standard. bit.ly/3RpbWvo #Invention #ClimateChange #Medicine #Safety

Woman in an office, working in intellectual property.

#Women #Patent attorneys report negative presumptions from clients. Those in #Engineering and #Physics, fields traditionally dominated by men, experience more bias than those in #Chemistry, #Biotechnology or #Biochemistry. bit.ly/42Ogfqx #Gender #WomenInIP #WomenInScience #WomenInTech

Rocket leaves the earth.

The first vertical launch licence has been awarded for the SaxaVord #Spaceport in the Shetland Islands. #IP protection has growing consequence for UK #SpaceTechnology companies. bit.ly/42vz3uv #Rocket #Spacetech #Spacecraft #Patents #SpacePatents #SpaceLaw #Innovation #Invention

Scandi robot servant Neo Gamma is dressed head-to-toe in beige knitwear Robotics firm 1X has developed a humanoid robot for home chores that is wrapped in beige knitwear to "complement living spaces rather than disrupt them".

A blend of #Technology and design comes from 1X Technologies, a #HumanoidRobot wrapped in cosy, Scandinavian-style #Knitwear! Neo Gamma is designed to blend into a home. It contrasts with futuristic #Inventions such as LG's robot cleaner in US2022287534. bit.ly/3DHQxdL #Patents #Robotics #AI

Reference from Davis et al and image of supramolecular structure from EP1633804.

#SupramolecularChemistry is a cross discipline of #Chemistry, #MaterialsScience and biological science. bit.ly/3DQWnth #Patents #Motexafin #Antidiabetics #Anti-cancerAgents #HumiditySensor #Antimicrobials #MolecularSensors, #GasAbsorption #Nanoreactors #ChemicalCatalysis #DrugDelivery #Noncovalent

Advancing patent law with generative AI: Human-in-the-loop systems for AI-assisted drafting, prior art search, and multimodal IP protection Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming patent law by automating complex tasks that traditionally demand significant legal and…

#AI-assisted systems have a growing role in the #Patent process, e.g in #PriorArt searches. The emphasis on #HumanInTheLoop frameworks shows the need for human oversight to ensure AI-generated outputs remain accurate and legally sound. bit.ly/41KSdfv #PatentSearch #PatentAnalysis #GenerativeAI

We’re excited to announce the first 10 teams we’re funding in Robot Dexterity 🦾 Working on Technical Area 1, they’ll focus on improving the skills and dexterity of robots to create more useful machines. (1/3)

Michelangelo's David viewed from the back. The missing muscle can be seen behind the right scapula.

Did Michelangelo’s David have a shoulder injury, as suggested by Ko et al? Treatments for this superior labral anterior to posterior (SLAP) lesion can be found in #Patents and #PatentApplications e.g. US2008188854. bit.ly/4i2Jv1U #Innovation #Inventors #Surgery #Therapy #Athlete

Robot hands using a keyboard

The #USPTO requires human review of #AI-drafted submissions. More enforcement of disclosure rules and pursuance of real inventive work before granting #Patents, would equip #PatentOffices for this challenge. go.nature.com/4bb23KH #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Patentability #Obviousness #InventiveStep

British Patent Information Professionals' website with Victor Green & Company logo

@victorgreen.co.uk is happy to be sponsoring the #BritishPatentInformationProfessionals' website again for 2025. #BPIP has links with #CEPIUG and connections with #CIPA, #UKIPO and @wipo.int. Many BPIP members have #QPIP status. bit.ly/3WzcAXf #PatentSearch #PatentAnalysis #Patent