On April 29, 2021, Mountain View, California-based startup Ceribell, Inc. announced the completion of a $53 million Series C financing,
Continue Reading Ceribell Announces Completion of $53 Million Series C Financing for Portable EEG that can Diagnose Seizures in Minutes
Capsida Biotherapeutics Inc.—a Thousand Oaks, CA-based emerging biotechnology company—recently emerged from stealth mode with $ 140 million in start-up capital
Continue Reading Capsida Biotherapeutics Debuts with $140 Million of Capital for its AAV Gene Therapies
The Supreme Court’s recent landmark ruling in Google v. Oracle ended a decade-long legal battle between the tech giants, finding
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A patent gives the patent holder the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering to sell, or importing
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Shortly after we posted about Moderna, Inc.’s October 2020 pledge not to enforce its COVID-19-related patents during the pandemic, the
Continue Reading The mRNA Patent and Competitive Landscape Through One Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic–Part I
Bigfoot Biomedical®, a Milpitas, CA emerging company, recently announced that it has secured new financing of up to $57
Continue Reading Bigfoot Biomedical® Secures up to $57 Million in Financing from Madryn Asset Management
Owning a federal trademark registration provides the ability to exclude others from using a certain word or design in association
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Patent examiners operate under a complex network of production and quality incentives that influence the likelihood that an examiner will
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Founders of emerging companies must decide early on in their company’s growth cycle whether to require employees to assign their
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Since the U.S. patent law switched to the first-inventor-to-file system in 2013, provisional applications have become more popular as the
Continue Reading Considerations for Protecting your Invention with Provisional Patent Applications