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This Week's Patent News:
🧑⚖️ CAFC Vacates Meta Win in Targeted Ads Patent Case. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated a district court ruling that favored Meta, giving patent owner Adnexus another chance to pursue infringement claims over targeted advertising technology. This precedential decision underscores the importance of proper claim evaluation in digital advertising patents.
💊 Cancer Drug Patent Invalidated for Lack of Written Description. In Seagen Inc. v. Daiichi Sankyo Co., the Federal Circuit invalidated a cancer drug treatment patent for insufficient written description. This ruling highlights strict enforcement of patent drafting standards in pharmaceutical IP.
📱 Estoppel Inapplicable to Ex Parte Reexamination. The Federal Circuit clarified that estoppel under 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(1) does not apply to ex parte reexamination proceedings, in In re Gesture Tech. This decision impacts how defendants can challenge patents after IPR proceedings.
🤖 Clarivate Launches Derwent Patent Monitor. Clarivate introduced an AI-powered tool, Derwent Patent Monitor, to streamline collaborative patent reviews and litigation risk assessments. While not a lawsuit itself, this tool directly supports litigation strategy by enabling faster patentability checks.
⚖️ Tillis Criticizes Lutnick Proposal & Times Sues Perplexity AI. Senator Tillis criticized a proposal on government profit-sharing from federally funded inventions, while The New York Times filed suit against Perplexity AI over IP concerns. This reflects growing tension between AI platforms and traditional media over intellectual property rights.
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🥼 The 19th-Century Physics Experiment That Ended Up in Your Lunchbox
Invented for the lab, hijacked by lunch
In 1892, Scottish physicist Sir James Dewar wasn’t trying to revolutionize picnics. He was studying the properties of liquefied gases, specifically, how to keep substances like liquid hydrogen cold enough to remain in that state. His solution? A double-walled glass container with a vacuum between the layers to drastically reduce heat transfer.
This scientific contraption, later known as the Dewar flask, was brilliant for labs but far too fragile for everyday use.
Enter Reinhold Burger, a German glassblower and inventor. In 1904, he took Dewar’s idea and added a twist: sealing the vacuum-insulated chamber inside a protective metal case and giving it a consumer-friendly name, the Thermos. Suddenly, a physics lab tool became a household must-have.
From keeping soups warm to preserving vaccine shipments cold, Dewar’s experimental flask evolved into an icon of utility and comfort. It's why your hot coffee is still hot by lunchtime, and your ice water survives a summer hike.
Ironically, Sir Dewar never patented his invention. Burger did. While Dewar remained a scientific legend, it was Burger who capitalized on Thermos' fame. When Thermos GmbH became hugely successful, Dewar sued, and lost, because he had never filed a patent. This is a famous example in IP history of a scientist missing the commercial upside.
So next time you sip from your stainless-steel lunchbox sidekick, give a nod to Victorian science, and maybe a muttered thank you to the physicist who wasn’t thinking about your tomato soup.
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Trivia
Which actress co-invented a frequency-hopping system that laid the groundwork for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth?
A) Audrey Hepburn
B) Katharine Johnson
C) Hedy Lamarr
D) Grace Hopper
Please scroll to the bottom of this newsletter to find out.
Featured Inventor
Greg Boss: The Relentless Inventor Modernizing Systems and Transforming Industries
If you think it’s hard to get one patent, try doing it 718 times, and still finding new ideas before lunch. Greg Boss isn’t just an inventor; he’s what happens when intellectual property meets caffeine and relentless curiosity.
He is a transformational tech leader. Greg co-founded a strategic advisory firm that helps executives harness AI while protecting their digital gold with ironclad IP. Translation. He helps companies build smarter technology and make sure it actually belongs to them. He is a triple threat. Part cloud architect. Part innovation strategist. Part patent-producing machine.
At IBM, Greg launched the company’s first internal production cloud and boosted DevOps throughput by three hundred percent. At OptumRx, he modernized nearly a third of its legacy platforms and increased developer productivity by twenty percent. His real superpower is building teams that do more than think outside the box. They dismantle the box, recycle the parts, and patent whatever is left. He has a gift for mentoring engineering groups into high-velocity innovation engines and making agile methods feel genuinely agile.
Today Greg is advising the leadership team at CoverMyMeds on the convergence of AI, data, and platform modernization. His focus is defining the strategic roadmap for a major digital transformation designed to create a more resilient, interoperable, and intelligent healthcare ecosystem.
Greg never chases technology for its own sake. Whether modernizing aging systems or architecting AI-powered reinvention, he ties every decision to business value that actually moves the needle. And with certifications from Microsoft and AWS, he is not just cloud literate. He is cloud fluent.
So if you want to turn AI ambition into IP reality, Greg Boss is your guy. Just be ready. He might invent something before your coffee cools.
Today in Patent History
When Skates Learned to Fly: Richardson’s Friction-Breaking Invention
On December 9, 1884, Levant M. Richardson received U.S. Patent 308,990 for a revolutionary “Roller-Skate” design that transformed the world of recreational movement. His breakthrough was the introduction of steel ball bearings inside the skate wheels — a simple idea that created a dramatic reduction in friction. Before Richardson’s design, skates were stiff, noisy, and difficult to control, limiting both speed and maneuverability. With ball bearings, skaters could glide smoothly, turn more precisely, and reach higher speeds with far less effort. Richardson’s invention not only improved performance but also helped popularize roller-skating as a mainstream American pastime.
U.S. Patent No. 308,990
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After departing Cancun on October 30, 2025, and climbing smoothly to 35,000 feet, a JetBlue flight bound for Newark seemed perfectly routine, until the aircraft suddenly plunged without warning. Airbus shared the suspected culprit: cosmic rays from outer space messing up the aircraft’s computer systems.
This Cosmic Ray UpFront Research Report summarizes the patent landscape surrounding cosmic rays and related technologies, reveals a dynamic and rapidly evolving field with substantial implications for scientific research and practical applications. Recent years have witnessed a marked increase in patent activity related to cosmic rays, indicating a growing interest in harnessing their properties for technological advancements across various sectors, including aerospace, healthcare, and environmental monitoring. |
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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: C) Hedy Lamarr ✅
🎬 Lamarr and composer George Antheil patented it in 1942 (U.S. 2,292,387). Hollywood beauty meets radio genius.
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