U.S. Patent No. 10,117,891 B2 (‘891) issued on November 6, 2018, for “Cannabinoid Composition for Treating Pain.” It was issued to inventors Ramachandra Mukunda of Potomac, Maryland, and Ranga Chelva Krishna of Englewood, New Jersey. The applicant/assignee is India Globalization Capital, Inc., a consolidated multi-industry company with a business division focused on cannabis pharmaceutical research. …
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TechPat: U.S. Patent No. 10,096,319 B2
U.S. Patent No. 10,096,319 B1 (‘319), issued on October 9, 2018, for “Voice-Based Determination of Physical and Emotional Characteristics of Users.” The inventors are Huafeng Jin of Sammamish, Washington and Shuo Wang of Bellevue, Washington. The applicant and assignee is Amazon Technologies, Inc. of Seattle, Washington, the giant e-commerce company which has transformed how people …
PlantIP: U.S. Patent No. 10,149,453 B2
U.S. Patent No. 10,149,453 B2 (‘453) issued on December 11, 2018, for “New Guinea Impatiens Variety SAKIMP042.” It was issued to inventors Chihiro Sato and Shinji Minemura, both of Nagano, Japan. The assignee is Sakata Seed Corporation, of Yokohama, Japan, one of the world’s largest vegetable and ornamental seed companies. The one interesting aspect is …
TechPat: U.S. Patent No. 10,158,948 B2: GDC Edition
The Game Developers Conference will be held in San Francisco from March 18-22, 2019. To commemorate the GDC, we will highlight two gaming patents during the conference. U.S. Patent No. 10,158,948 B2 (‘948), issued on December 18, 2018, for “Gaming Headset with Voice Scrambling for Private In-Game Conversations.” The inventor is Richard Kulavik of San …
TechPat: U.S. Patent No. 10,157,521 B2: GDC Edition
The Game Developers Conference will be held in San Francisco from March 18-22, 2019. To commemorate the GDC, we will highlight two gaming patents during the conference. U.S. Patent No. 10,157,521 B2 (‘521), issued on December 18, 2018, for “Identification of Side Pot Participants in Poker Game.” The inventors are Jacob Moore of Alameda, California, …
CannabIP: U.S. Patent No. 10,085,965 B2
U.S. Patent No. 10,085,965 B2 (‘965) issued on October 2, 2018, for “Cannabinoid Alcoholic Drink.” It was issued to applicants/inventors Olga Skuratovich of Denver, Colorado and Filipp Mirzakhanov of Centennial, Colorado. The sole ‘965 claim is directed to a method of producing a drink consisting of cannabidiol (CBD) and vodka. It is interesting that the …
Fed Circuit Watch: Pre-Critical Date Surgeries Not Invalidating Public Uses
In the first split precedential decision of 2019 by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Fed Circuit assessed the issues of invalidating public disclosure versus an inventor’s exception to experimentally perfect an invention for its intended purpose. That case, Barry v. Medtronic, Inc.,[1] decided on January 24, 2019, split heavily because of …
CannabIP: U.S. Patent No. 10,011,804 B2
U.S. Patent No. 10,011,804 B2 (‘804) issued on July 3, 2018, for “Method of Extracting CBD, THC, and Other Compounds From Cannabis Using Controlled Cavitation.” It was issued to inventor Douglas G. Mancosky of White, Georgia. The applicant is Hydro Dynamics, Inc., a cross-industry cavitation extraction company located in Rome, Georgia. The assignee is EcoXtraction, …
Fed Circuit Watch: USPTO Botched Patent Term Adjustment Calculation
On January 23, 2018, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Iancu,[1] in which the Fed Circuit found defective the USPTO’s calculation of patent term adjustment (PTA) under 35 U.S.C. §154(b), a rather unexciting and mostly mechanical aspect of patent prosecution. Supernus Pharmaceuticals owns U.S. Patent No. 8,747,897 (‘897) …
Fed Circuit Watch: Another Mayo, Another §101 Kill
Medical diagnostics patents involving a certain lab testing company named Mayo took a hit when those patents were deemed invalid under 35 U.S.C. §101. No, it’s not that Mayo case,[1] but the one in which the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently decided on February 6, 2019, Athena Diagnostics, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative …