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Ankar, which develops LLM-powered AI tools to streamline the process of drafting patent applications for patent attorneys, raised a $20M Series A led by Atomico (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/17/exclusi

Exclusive: Palantir alums using AI to streamline patent filing secure $20 million in Series A venture funding
Palantir alumni Tamar Gomez and Wiem Gharbi founded Ankar which counts L'Oreal and Vorys among early customers

ich frage mich was er überhaupt erfunden hat
bestimmt einen hammer-schraubendreher
das wäre praktisch
https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/wdr/patent-staatsgeheimnis-nukleare-abschreckung-nato-100.html

The Chicago-Kent, Illinois Tech IP Program cordially invites you to: "What’s the Skinny? Drug Labels and Patent Infringement," Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 12-1 pm.
The panel is open to the public but please RSVP in advance here: https://

Wie zu erwarten war, geht #Arduino durch den Verkauf an #Qualcomm nun den Bach runter. Der neue Besitzer hat AGB und Datenschutz geändert. Die Arduino-Plattform ist somit wohl nicht mehr unter freier Lizenz. Auch erhält Qualcomm eine Nutzungsgenehmigung für alle hochgeladenen Materialien …

🔫 Nintendo’s Messy Palworld Fight Takes An Unexpected Turn
#games

i see a lot of people expressing sadness over colorForth being gone. i'm quite okay with it: from Chuck Moore's webpage you can see that its primary utility in the last 20 years or so (if not more) was patent trolling, and while not being able to run the software won't stop that, it's a small bit of satisfaction.

I've never wanted to be a pig more than I do right now

In a letter, the SIA urges the USPTO to drop a plan to impose annual patent fees of 1% to 5% based on government-assessed value, replacing the flat-fee model (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

Chipmaking industry pushes back on U.S. Patent Office considering imposing annual fee based on assessed value — “tax on innovation” draws strong opposition from Semiconductor Industry Association
The federal government wants a bigger slice of the semiconductor pie through patents.

There had been a patent on mask ROMs and it finally expired just a few months ago.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20050254280A1/en

The U.S. patent for mp3 audio was granted on November 26 in 1996. This piece is kinda weird about it in spots, but it gives a decent history about how it laid the foundations for peer-to-peer music sharing, etc.

The U.S. patent for MP3 audio was granted on this day in 1996 — laid the foundations for peer-to-peer music sharing, iTunes, and today's streaming services
The Fraunhofer Institut had been working on its lossy audio compression tech for phone line transmission since 1977.

Interpretable Machine Learning for Predicting Startup Funding, Patenting, and Exits
Saeid Mashhadi, Amirhossein Saghezchi, Vesal Ghassemzadeh Kashani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09465

Interpretable Machine Learning for Predicting Startup Funding, Patenting, and Exits
This study develops an interpretable machine learning framework to forecast startup outcomes, including funding, patenting, and exit. A firm-quarter panel for 2010-2023 is constructed from Crunchbase and matched to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) data. Three horizons are evaluated: next funding within 12 months, patent-stock growth within 24 months, and exit through an initial public offering (IPO) or acquisition within 36 months. Preprocessing is fit on a development window (2010-2019…

A California federal jury says Apple must pay Masimo $634M for infringing a blood-oxygen patent used in Watch workout and heart-rate alerts; Apple will appeal (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-jury-s

📊 Meine Top 4 Beiträge der letzten Woche mit den meisten Boosts sind:
1. Konrad #Adenauer erhielt ein Patent auf die #Sojawurst.
https://

For a deep dive with some very excellent analysis of *that* white house security strategy, @… 's latest is a must view, and deeply discomfiting.
Anders ends with a suggestion to move off Meta X for blue sky. Which while I appreciate that a rivalry between masto BSky is probably unhelpful should maybe also come with the caveat that Blue sky *really* needs some other servers that federates with the US patent...
https://youtu.be/YAh-xEteBz4?si=yjXMUHc9qm_mxge2

Solve Intelligence, which offers generative AI tools to law firms for IP and patent law work, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $55M (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)
https://pathfounders.com/p/generative-ai-is-coming-for-ip

Generative AI is coming for IP and patent law, as Solve Intelligence raises its Series B
It looks like a swathe of older legal tech platforms are about to be hit by Generative AI startups. But are VCs using 'king-making' tactics to back the winners?

heh, the patent on the setuid bit persuaded ken thompson that patents were worthless https://youtu.be/OmVHkL0IWk4

Perplexity launches a free AI-powered patent research tool in beta to let users search for patents using natural language queries (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/811340/perplexity-ai-patent-research-tool

Perplexity’s new AI tool aims to simplify patent research
Perplexity is launching an AI-powered patent research tool that allows you to search for patents using natural language.

Which countries have the most patent applications per million inhabitants?
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Hey @…, just seeing how you're doing, since I haven't seen any posts from you in a while, even when I'm blatantly using your wordle patent! 😁 Hope you've just been busy w/ good stuff.

Am 26. Juni 1918 erhielt Konrad #Adenauer ein Patent auf die #Sojawurst – ein Versuch, die #Fleischknappheit im Ersten Weltkrieg zu lindern.
Die sogenannte „

Crossing Domains without Labels: Distant Supervision for Term Extraction
Elena Senger, Yuri Campbell, Rob van der Goot, Barbara Plank
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06838 https://…

Crossing Domains without Labels: Distant Supervision for Term Extraction
Automatic Term Extraction (ATE) is a critical component in downstream NLP tasks such as document tagging, ontology construction and patent analysis. Current state-of-the-art methods require expensive human annotation and struggle with domain transfer, limiting their practical deployment. This highlights the need for more robust, scalable solutions and realistic evaluation settings. To address this, we introduce a comprehensive benchmark spanning seven diverse domains, enabling performance evalu…

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/patent-office-about-make-bad-patents-untouchable

Uncovering multi-technology convergence patterns with hypergraphs: Evolution and prediction using patent data
Yiwei Huang, Shuqi Xu, Shimin Cai, Linyuan L\"u
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15521

Uncovering multi-technology convergence patterns with hypergraphs: Evolution and prediction using patent data
Technology convergence integrates distinct domains to create novel combinations, driving radical innovation that reshapes markets and industries. However, most approaches rely on pairwise networks that cannot capture multi-technology interactions and suffer scale biases from heterogeneous patenting activity. To overcome these gaps, we propose a hypergraph-based framework that directly models multi-technology convergence and identifies statistically significant convergence via a probabilistic nu…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/115601485570143504
Please submit your comments on this proposed change, which takes away an important method for challenging patents. This seems like a clear give-away to big business and patent troll firms. Let’s not let them …

Sonnet 087 - LXXXVII
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,
And like enough thou know'st thy estimate,
The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing;
My bonds in thee are all determinate.
For how do I hold thee but by thy granting?
And for that riches where is my deserving?
The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting,
And so my patent back again is swerving.
Thy self thou gavest, thy own worth then not knowing,
Or me to…

Majestic Labs, which makes patent-pending server architecture that promises more memory capacity, raised $100M, including a $71M Series A led by Bow Wave (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/10/majestic-labs-meta-google-ai-funding.html
…

Former Google, Meta executives raise $100 million for high-capacity AI servers startup
The three plan to sell high-memory server technology.

🫟 Students develop novel multi-metal 3D printing process
#manufacturing

Students develop novel multi-metal 3D printing process
Students at ETH Zurich have developed a laser powder bed fusion machine that follows a circular tool path to print round components, which allows the processing of multiple metals at once. The system significantly reduces manufacturing time and opens up new possibilities for aerospace and industry. ETH has filed a patent application for the machine, and the results are published in the CIRP Annals.

Filing: Strava voluntarily dismissed its patent lawsuit against Garmin, for allegedly infringing its heat map and segments features, just 21 days after filing (Ray Maker/DC Rainmaker)
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/10/strava-drops-voluntarily-lawsuit-again…

Strava Voluntarily Drops Lawsuit Against Garmin
 Strava’s multifaceted legal (and social media) attack on Garmin was short-lived. Just 21 days after filing the original patent infringement case, alongside a Reddit post from their executive team attacking Garmin, the company has decided to dismiss the case

Replaced article(s) found for cs.IR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.IR/new
[1/1]:
- PaECTER: Patent-level Representation Learning using Citation-informed Transformers
Mainak Ghosh, Michael E. Rose, Sebastian Erhardt, Erik Buunk, Dietmar Harhoff

Who Pays, Who Benefits? Producer-Insurer Games in Life-Saving Medicines
Delia Coculescu, Maximilian Janisch, Thomas Leh\'ericy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16125 https://

Who Pays, Who Benefits? Producer-Insurer Games in Life-Saving Medicines
Pharmaceutical markets for life-saving therapies combine monopoly power with insurance coverage. We build a tractable sequential game in which a patent-holder chooses the drug price, a profit-maximising insurer sets its premium, and a population of heterogeneous agents decide whether to insure and, conditional on diagnosis, whether to purchase treatment. Two sufficient statistics - subjective illness probability and reservation price - capture heterogeneity and nest risk-aversion and liquidity-…

The USPTO issues new guidelines clarifying that generative AI is considered a tool that assists human inventors and cannot itself be considered an inventor (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-…