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R2mc Deploys Eco Patch Technology at Sea

MarineLink 25 Apr 2025
R2mc Technologies is entering the marine propulsion market after success in motorsports and heavy-duty transport, with a new patented Eco Patch Technology. The Eco Patch System acts as an autonomous ...
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“Uncertain Peril”: How corporate control of seeds threatens food sovereignty and biodiversity

GMO News 22 Apr 2025
Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds” investigates how corporate-driven biotechnology, restrictive patents and ecological degradation have placed seeds – the foundation of life – in unprecedented jeopardy ... Cummings urges readers to act.
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Carving a connection to the past and a path to the future

The Lewiston Tribune 20 Apr 2025
PULLMAN — A small shed on the Washington State University campus buzzes with activity ... “All of their dugouts, they were able to go in a free-flowing system with more rapids ... Some, like Jones’ ancestors, received land patents through the Homestead Act ... .
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US to tackle patent abuse

Eweekly 17 Apr 2025
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ... patent system. The group will act to limit improper activity in patent applications and reexamination proceedings at the USPTO and reduce patent application pendency.
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Protecting Innovation: The Role of Intellectual Property in Business Growth

The Signal 17 Apr 2025
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)? That leaves valuable creations exposed to theft, leading to potential losses of time and money in the future ... You’ll discover practical ways to secure patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets with ease.
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India’s drugs industry: how one country took over the global medicine market

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism 16 Apr 2025
A milestone moment came in 1970, when the Patents Act changed the exclusive rights that could be granted to the inventor of a drug, limiting them to manufacturing processes only (and not final products).
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Opinion: The polio vaccine changed the world. It holds lessons for today.

San Diego Union-Tribune 16 Apr 2025
Yet Salk’s greatest act of altruism may have been his decision not to patent the vaccine. When asked who owned the patent, he famously responded, “Could you patent the sun?” This selfless choice ...
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Spanish health ministry defends drug reform as industry warns of shortages

Spanish News Today 16 Apr 2025
Javier Padilla, Secretary of State for Health, rejected claims that the new rules would act as a kind of auction and insisted the plan would focus mainly on medicines that have lost patent protection but still enter the market at a very high cost ... .
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Aspire Biopharma Holdings, Inc., to Present at the Emerging Growth Conference on Thursday, April 17

ACCESSWIRE 14 Apr 2025
Aspire's technology delivers a soluble, fast acting granular or powder form drug formulation which has been developed by using our patent-pending methodology, and "trade secret" process ... Act of 1995.
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SMA patients welcome Natco’s development of generic drug; call for government intervention to ensure access

The Hindu 11 Apr 2025
Though Natco’s generic could cut costs from Roche’s rate of $7,150 to less than $185, activists call for Centre to invoke the Patents Act and ensure affordable access for all spinal muscular atrophy patients ....
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OPINION: What Congress and the Trump Administration must do to defend patent rights

Savannah Morning News 10 Apr 2025
As a first step, the White House should work with Congress to defeat misguided proposals like the Litigation Transparency Act which would disproportionately harm small businesses.Second, lawmakers should pass the RESTORE Patent Rights Act.
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Film and high-end TV inquiry calls for UK to rejoin Creative Europe, 5% levy on streamers

Screen Daily 10 Apr 2025
Further calls to action for the government are for legislation to prevent historical contract waivers from being interpreted to allow the use of recorded performances by AI tools; for a review of the ...
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Aspire Biopharma Holdings, Inc., Announces Phase 1 Clinical Trial Initiation of its Oral Transmucosal Fast-Acting ...

ACCESSWIRE 09 Apr 2025
Aspire's technology delivers a soluble, fast acting granular or powder form drug formulation which has been developed by using our patent-pending methodology, and "trade secret" process.
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Council for Innovation Promotion Policy Agenda Outlines Innovation Priorities for New Congress

ACCESSWIRE 08 Apr 2025
Passing legislation such as the RESTORE Patent Rights Act, the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA), and the PREVAIL Act to ensure inventors and small businesses receive fair protections against infringement and duplicative litigation.
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SC to hear pleas over ₹50 lakh cap on Centre aid for rare diseases

Hindustan Times 08 Apr 2025
“It stands now that the price in India is substantially lower ... Grover said the government could have taken steps to reduce the cost of SMA treatment by either negotiating with the drug manufacturer or invoking provisions under the Patents Act, 1970.
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