The Supreme Court ruled that Congress erred when it set up a board to oversee patent disputes by failing to make the judges properly accountable to the president.

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The U.S. Supreme Court upheld an administrative review system that has helped Google Inc., Apple Inc. and other companies invalidate hundreds of issued patents.

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A Maryland biotechnology company focused on cancer and sickle cell disease is set to receive a patent in Europe. The European Patent Office told GlycoMimetics Inc., which is based in Rockville, that it plans to grant a patent related to its ...

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Samsung Electronics Co. is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a $399 million patent award it was ordered to pay Apple Inc. for copied iPhone designs, in what would be the court’s first case involving design patents in 120 ...

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Gaithersburg-based GenVec Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company that develops therapeutics and vaccines, was awarded U.S. and European patents related to vaccine development, the company announced on Monday. U.S. patent 9133248 covers methods of propagating proprietary gene delivery adenovectors isolated from new and ...

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HUNT VALLEY — Today’s junior high school science fair projects just might become tomorrow’s big business ideas. Technology innovation experts from the U.S. Army are holding a workshop Wednesday in Hunt Valley to tell kids how to bring their inventions ...

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Overturning the Federal Circuit, the Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. in the company's high-profile patent dispute with rival firms over the top-selling multiple sclerosis drug Copaxone.

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Technology companies like Google Inc. and Apple Inc. remain the biggest targets of patent lawsuits even as the overall litigation totals dropped last year, according to a study released Thursday by Unified Patents.

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An internal watchdog says thousands of federal patent workers are allowed to work from home with little supervision and face almost no discipline even if they lie about the hours they put in.

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has extended three patents held by RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals Inc., of Rockville, the company announced. The extensions were based on new rules contained in the America Invents Act Technical Corrections Act. A patent for a ...

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