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This Week's Patent News:
⚖️ USPTO & DOJ push for stronger patent enforcement. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Department of Justice filed a joint comment with the International Trade Commission, arguing that exclusion orders should remain the presumptive remedy for infringement in DRAM-related investigations.
🤖 USPTO issues new AI inventorship guidance. The USPTO rescinded earlier AI inventorship guidance and clarified that traditional inventorship standards apply, rejecting broader interpretations of joint inventorship under the Pannu factors.
🚀 Boeing fights trade secret claims in NASA tech dispute. Boeing asked a federal court to deny a supplier’s privilege claim in a trade secret case involving NASA technology, highlighting tensions over document discovery in aerospace IP litigation.
🎤 Johnny Cash estate sues Coca-Cola over voice misappropriation. The estate of Johnny Cash accused Coca-Cola of misappropriating his iconic voice in advertising, testing Tennessee’s new ELVIS Act designed to protect performers’ likeness and voice rights.
🏛️ UPC roundup: Edwards v. Meril dispute clarified. The Unified Patent Court clarified inventive step, territorial scope, and public-interest limits in the Edwards v. Meril case, with implications for revocation standing and jurisdiction.
New weekly USPTO Patents data have been added.
Top Inventors:
Tao Luo - 15
Xiaoxia Zhang - 10
Jing Sun - 8
Junyi Li - 8
Sony Akkarakaran - 8
Peter Gaal - 8
Armando Montalvo - 7
Jeremy Bataillou - 6
Jonathan P. Ive - 6
Jiang Wu - 6
Jinfeng Bao - 6
Elliot Lee Heffner - 6
Gary Edward Henke - 6
Babiker Yagoub Elhadi Abdulkhair - 6
Ruilong Xie - 6
Feeding the World with Chemistry: The Invention of the Haber-Bosch Process
How Two Chemists Pulled Fertilizer from Thin Air and Fed Billions
If you ate today, you probably have chemistry to thank for it.
At the turn of the 20th century, the world faced a serious dilemma:
how to feed a booming population when natural sources of nitrogen-rich fertilizer, such as bird droppings from Peru and saltpeter from Chile, were rapidly depleting. Without nitrogen, crops couldn’t grow. And without crops, well you get the idea.
Enter Fritz Haber, a German chemist who in 1909 discovered how to extract nitrogen from the air and convert it into ammonia (NH3), a key ingredient in fertilizer. Air, after all, is 78% nitrogen, but that nitrogen is stubbornly locked in a stable N molecule that plants cannot use. Haber found a way to break that bond using high pressure, high temperature, and a metal catalyst.
But lab experiments alone couldn’t feed millions.
That’s where Carl Bosch came in. As an engineer at BASF, Bosch took Haber’s laboratory-scale idea and made it work on an industrial scale. By 1913, the first Haber-Bosch plant was operational. For the first time in human history, we could literally make fertilizer from thin air.
The impact? Enormous. Today, over 50% of the nitrogen in your body comes from food grown using synthetic fertilizer derived from the Haber-Bosch Process. It’s been called the detonator of the population explosion, enabling Earth to sustain billions more people than it could have otherwise.
The Haber-Bosch Process remains one of history's most critical chemical inventions. It’s not flashy. It doesn’t beep or glow. But without it, humanity wouldn’t be eating, let alone growing.
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Trivia
Before Edison’s famous light bulb, which British inventor patented an electric lamp in 1841?
A) Joseph Swan
B) Humphry Davy
C) Michael Faraday
D) George Stephenson
Please scroll to the bottom of this newsletter to find out.
Featured Inventor
The Centurion-Patent Holder Powering DynaEnergetics
In an industry where complexity is the default setting, Christian Eitschberger has made a career out of pressing the “clarity” button.
Christian Eitschberger is a technology leader known for turning complex engineering challenges into elegant, scalable solutions. As Vice President of Innovation & Design at DynaEnergetics, he guides multidisciplinary teams in developing breakthrough systems that elevate performance, safety, and efficiency across the energy sector.
His leadership has been central to the creation of flagship technologies including the DynaSelect initiating system and the DynaStage perforating platform, innovations that set new industry benchmarks.
With more than 100 granted patents, Christian has built a career defined by technical precision, design excellence, and commercially impactful problem-solving. His influence extends deep into manufacturing, where he has championed robotics and advanced automation to dramatically improve precision, consistency, and production scalability.
Christian’s approach blends engineering rigor with design strategy, 3D visualization, and a forward-thinking view of industrial automation. He is driven by a passion for progress at the intersection of human purpose, technology, and operational performance, ensuring that bold ideas move efficiently from concept to reality.
Today in Patent History
The Woman Who Invented Home Security
How Marie Van Brittan Brown Turned a Simple Idea Into Modern Safety
On December 2, 1969, Marie Van Brittan Brown received a patent for one of the most important household innovations of the twentieth century, the first home security system using television surveillance. Born in 1922 in Queens, New York, Brown worked as a nurse and often came home late, worried about safety in her neighborhood. Together with her husband Albert Brown, she designed a system in 1966 that used a camera, monitors, and remote door controls to help homeowners see and screen visitors. Her invention, patent number 3,482,037, became the foundation of today’s smart home security industry.
U.S. Patent No. 3,482,037
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Centurion Patentors
Congratulations to last week's Centurion Patentors! |
The Centurion Patentors are 0.185% of ALL Inventors worldwide who hold more than one hundred U.S. patents. They are the Navy SEALs of innovation. They don’t just have good ideas once; they’ve built a discipline, a repeatable process for turning thought into impact. |
We are excited to welcome the following inventors into these prestigious patent clubs: |
Trivia
Answer: A) Joseph Swan ✅
💡 Swan’s design used a carbon filament and predates Edison’s by decades. They later partnered to avoid litigation.
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