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This Week's Patent News:
🧪 Amarin skinny‑label Supreme Court fight. U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Amarin’s dispute over “skinny label” induced‑infringement claims, a case with major implications for generics and patent enforcement. .
🏛️ Google v. Valtrus Innovations docket filed. Google filed a declaratory‑judgment patent action in Northern California against Valtrus and Key Patent Innovations, initiating a new U.S. district‑court patent dispute. .
🧠 Microsoft AI supercomputer patent trial set. A patent suit over AI supercomputer technology involving Microsoft advanced toward a June trial, underscoring urgency in tech‑industry IP litigation. .
👓 XREAL sues Viture in Texas over AR patents. XREAL filed patent infringement claims in the Eastern District of Texas against Viture affiliates, alleging infringement of core AR optics and display technology patents. .
⌚ UnaliWear asks ITC to probe smartwatch fall‑detection tech. UnaliWear’s complaint prompted an ITC investigation into Apple, Google, Garmin, and Samsung over fall‑detection and emergency‑response patents, risking import bans.
New weekly USPTO Patents data have been added.
Top Inventors:
Tao Luo - 14
Peter Gaal - 9
Xiaoxia Zhang - 8
Yan Zhou - 8
Ahmed Attia Abotabl - 7
Xiaobo Zhang - 7
Frederick E. Shelton, IV - 6
Marwen Zorgui - 6
Ahmed Elshafie - 6
Huilin Xu - 6
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💉 The $1 Life-Saver: How a Lab Squad Chose Glory Over Gold
The $1 gift that changed the world, and the billion-dollar industry that didn't get the memo.
In the early 1920s, a diabetes diagnosis was essentially a slow-motion death sentence. The "cure" was a starvation diet, less of a medical plan and more of a tragic lifestyle choice.
Enter Frederick Banting and Charles Best. Banting had a "stupidly simple" idea to harvest insulin, and Best was the medical student tasked with making it work.
They were eventually joined by James Collip, the chemistry wizard who cleaned up their "pancreas juice" so it didn't cause a localized riot in the patient’s arm.
By 1922, they saved a teenager named Leonard Thompson. They hadn't found a "cure", it was more of a lifelong subscription to staying alive, but it was a miracle nonetheless.
Then, the trio pulled the ultimate "mic drop" on capitalism. They sold the patent to the University of Toronto for one single dollar. Banting’s logic? Profit shouldn't stand between a patient and their pulse.
🌟 Fun Fact: Banting’s brilliance didn’t go unnoticed. In 1923, he became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at just 32 years old, a record that still stands over a century later.
Today, insulin has evolved from "slaughterhouse leftovers" to high-tech synthetic DNA, but the price has done its own vertical climb. While Banting’s $1 patent is a legend of altruism, the modern pharmacy receipt is a sharp reminder that while the science belongs to the world, the bill definitely belongs to you.
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Trivia
The first U.S. patent, granted in 1790 to Samuel Hopkins, was for…?
A) A cotton gin
B) A potash refining process
C) A printing press
D) A steam engine
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💡 Paul Pickard: The Engineer Who Turned Light Into a Movement
Paul Pickard has spent more than 25 years turning bright ideas into brighter realities. A mechanical engineer by training and an entrepreneur at heart, Pickard has led teams that reshaped the lighting industry: from the first mass-market LED downlight module (LR6) to the first sub-$10 LED bulb on Home Depot shelves. His fingerprints are on the breakthroughs that helped LEDs move from lab curiosity to living-room necessity.
What distinguishes Pickard isn’t just his technical mastery; it’s his knack for bridging invention and impact.
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At his core, Pickard believes progress starts with people. His legacy is as much about the products that changed an industry as the engineers and designers he’s mentored to keep lighting the way forward.
Today in Patent History
🔥🏭 The Blast Furnace That Forged Modern Steel
On this day in 1857, William Kelly patented the blast furnace for manufacturing steel.
The same basic process was discovered independently by Henry Bessemer and patented in 1856.
Due to a financial panic in 1857, a company that had already licensed the Bessemer process was able to purchase Kelly’s patents, and licensed both under a single scheme using the Bessemer name.
Kelly’s role in the invention of the process is much less known.
U.S. Patent No. 16,444
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Centurion Patentors
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Trivia
Answer: B) A potash refining process ✅
This patent was signed by George Washington himself. America’s first patent was for making fertilizer ingredients.
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