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• This Week's Patent News

• Weekly Statistics

• Main Article

• Trivia (question)

• Featured Inventor

• Today in Patent History

• Our Features

• Centurion Patentors

• Trivia (answer)

• Recommendations

This Week's Patent News:

1. A WTO panel dismissed the EU's claims that China violated IP rules with anti-suit injunctions, though it found China breached transparency obligations. The EU plans to appeal.

2. Lab Technology LLC sued USAA, alleging the SafePilot crash detection feature infringes on its 2015 patent for refreshing cellphone displays. The case is in the Western District of Texas.

3. Secure Matrix LLC filed patent lawsuits against 38 Texas companies over its 2014 web verification patent. While major firms like Microsoft and Sony settled, Texas-based companies, including H-E-B and Southwest Airlines, are contesting the claims. Some, like Santikos Entertainment and Twin Liquors, countersued to challenge the patent's validity..

4. Halozyme Therapeutics is suing Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., claiming Keytruda's subcutaneous formulation violates patents on its MDASE delivery technology. Halozyme seeks damages and aims to block its launch.

5. A Colorado judge in Coomer v. Lindell flagged nearly 30 fake AI-generated citations in the defense's brief, stressing the risks of unverified AI use and attorneys' duty to ensure accuracy in legal documents.

How Academia Quietly Changed the World

Take the Internet. Yes, that Internet, the one now hosting quantum physics papers, cat memes, and more opinions than neurons. Its origin? A U.S. Department of Defense project in the 1960s known as ARPANET, designed by university researchers to maintain communication in the event of nuclear catastrophe. They envisioned a resilient, decentralized network. They got Reddit.

Then there's CRISPR, the gene-editing marvel that can snip and swap strands of DNA like digital code. Born from joint efforts at UC Berkeley and the University of Vienna, it’s a tool so powerful it can cure diseases, enhance crops, or, depending on your ethical alignment, resurrect mammoths or designer pets. Either way, it all started in a lab, with researchers tinkering with bacterial immune systems, not exactly the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster. Yet.

And who could forget Google? What began as a Stanford PhD project to rank academic papers turned into a global verb. Larry Page and Sergey Brin built PageRank to organize scholarly information. Today, it helps us settle bar arguments, choose lunch spots, and explain black holes in 0.48 seconds.

Even MRI technology, now a pillar of modern medicine, originated from physics experiments at SUNY Stony Brook and Nottingham University, led by researchers like Paul Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield, names known in Nobel circles, though perhaps not on TikTok.

Not every academic paper changes the world, but some do. And sometimes the footnote becomes the headline. So the next time you hear about a federally funded study on snail mating habits, resist the eye-roll. Today’s obscure research might just be tomorrow’s GPS, COVID vaccine, or, yes, the TikTok algorithm.

Because in the right lab, curiosity isn’t just academic. It’s revolutionary.

Please scroll to the bottom of this newsletter to find out.

Mirsad Hadžikadić: The Algorithmic Optimist Who Dared to Tinker With Democracy

Born in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, he came to the U.S. in the early '80s with a suitcase full of ambition and a mind wired for data. After earning his PhD in computer science, he made his academic home at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he led the Institute of Complex Systems, a fitting role for a man who sees connections where most see chaos.

His AI and data science work could fill a server farm, with over 50 publications and patents exploring everything from predictive analytics to healthcare algorithms. But Hadžikadić didn’t stop at decoding machines; he also set his sights on upgrading political systems.

In 2018 and again in 2022, he ran for the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina on a platform built less on slogans and more on spreadsheets. His pitch? Logic, ethics, and evidence inform governance. In a world where politics often feels like a legacy system overdue for an update, Hadžikadić is the rare public figure who brings both the firmware and the fire.

Whether in the lab or on the campaign trail, Mirsad Hadžikadić is proof that sometimes the best way to debug society is to start with the source code.

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