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IDiyas Inventors Newsletter October 7, 2025
🎈 From the goofy dance of a Tube Man 🤪 to the steady beep of a hospital monitor 🏥💓 invention shapes what we notice 👀. And when you change what people notice, you change how they live 🌍✨.
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This Week's Patent News:
🧬 Regenxbio v. Sarepta: Patent Eligibility Battle Over Gene Therapy. Regenxbio appealed a district court ruling that invalidated its gene therapy patent under §101 for claiming natural products. The Federal Circuit is set to hear arguments on whether the engineered host cells are “markedly different” from natural ones.
⚖️ USPTO Greenlights PTAB Discretionary Denial Program. New USPTO Director John Squires authorized Deputy Coke Morgan Stewart to continue the PTAB’s discretionary denial program, a controversial tool for managing patent challenges under the America Invents Act.
💊 Pharma Giants File Fresh Suits in Delaware. Pfizer, Boehringer, Orion, and Kaleo filed new patent infringement suits in Delaware, targeting competitors over arthritis and diabetes treatments. The district remains a hotspot for pharma IP litigation.
📺 Nokia Sues Paramount Over Streaming Patents. Nokia launched suits against Paramount in the UPC’s Mannheim and Munich courts, alleging infringement of three video streaming patents. The campaign marks Nokia’s aggressive enforcement push in Europe.
New weekly USPTO Patents data have been added.
Top Assignees:
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Entity Type / Patent Type | Large (> 500 Employees) | Small (≤ 500 Employees) | Micro (Small Entity) |
Utility | 5,050 | 1,385 | 154 |
Design | 418 | 441 | 248 |
Plant | 2 | 9 | 0 |
*Where one patent can have more than one assignee, Entity data assignment as of September 30, 2025
🎈 The Rise of the Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube Man
The Surprisingly Serious Origin of Your Favorite Flailing Friend.He’s tall, twisty, and never skips arm day. Meet the Wacky Waving Inflatable Tube Man, America’s most overqualified car salesman. But this flailing icon wasn’t born in a boardroom. He was born on a stage. |  |
The idea came from Peter Minshall, a Trinidadian artist famous for his extravagant Carnival designs. When he was asked to design visual elements for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics opening ceremony, Minshall imagined tall, dancing air beings.
To bring them to life, he teamed up with Israeli engineer Doron Gazit, who created what was then called the Tall Boy.
Gazit later filed U.S. Patent No. 6,186,857, officially titled Apparatus and Method for Providing Inflated Undulating Figures. (Yes, it sounds like a yoga move.)
Originally meant as art, the invention quickly found a second career: hypnotizing passing motorists into buying used sedans. Businesses loved it. Why? Because nothing says trust us with your financing like a 20-foot inflatable doing jazz hands in the wind.
Of course, the Tube Man didn’t stop at car dealerships. He’s now a meme, a Halloween costume, and even a Super Bowl guest star. That’s not bad for a glorified windsock.
So the next time you see one of these polyester extroverts flapping by the highway, know that he’s not just there for laughs. He’s a patented blend of art, engineering, and relentless enthusiasm.
Stories like these, equal parts bizarre and brilliant are what we live for at IDiyas.
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Trivia
What common office supply was patented in 1899 and keeps things together with a bend of metal?
Please scroll to the bottom of this newsletter to find out.
Featured Inventor
The Pulse Whisperer
Joe Kiani’s Tech That Saved Millions of Lives (and Rattled Apple) Joe Kiani, born in Shiraz, Iran, in 1964, arrived in the U.S. at age nine, spoke virtually no English, but by fifteen was already high-schooling ahead of the curve. Picking up both bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering from San Diego State by 22, Kiani was not your average freshman. In 1989, after identifying flaws in pulse oximetry while consulting at medical-device firms, he launched Masimo in a humble garage. |  |
His breakthrough? Signal Extraction Technology (SET), which cracked the motion and low perfusion problem, slashing false alarms by up to 95 percent and saving countless premature infants from blindness.
What started as a scrappy startup eventually became a NASDAQ-listed powerhouse with over 8,000 employees and monitoring hardware used on more than 200 million patients annually. His intellectual property empire? Over 346 patents (issued and pending), more than enough to wallpaper a small office.
Kiani didn’t just invent devices; he championed patient safety, founding the Masimo Foundation in 2010 and the Patient Safety Movement in 2012, with a bold goal: zero preventable hospital deaths by 2030.
He also testified before Congress, sometimes sounding more like a tech ethicist than a CEO.
In 2021, President Biden tapped him for the Presidential Science & Technology Council, proof that his garage-to-glory story earned him more than just business clout.
Kiani now serves as CEO of Willow Laboratories, a health-tech company focused on metabolic wellness and diabetes management tools.
Today in Patent History
🚄 Floating on Innovation: The Birth of Maglev
On this day in 1969, a patent was granted for something that would change how we think about trains, not with wheels, but with magnets, was awarded to James R. Powell and Gordon Danby, introduced a revolutionary concept: magnetic levitation. Instead of clunky wheels on rails, Maglev trains glide above the tracks using superconducting magnets, reducing friction to near zero. Translation? These trains move like butter on a hot skillet—fast, smooth, and eerily silent. While it took decades for Maglev to hit the rails commercially (thanks, Japan and China), the 1969 patent laid the groundwork for today’s high-speed levitating marvels. Powell and Danby didn’t just file a patent, they filed the future. |  U.S. Patent No. 3,470,828 |
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💡From INVENT to INVEST — Just One Letter (and One Vault) Away |
INVENT and INVEST are nearly identical. Swap the N for an S, and you turn ideas into impact. |
That’s no accident. The recent Bill Gates article “The future of energy is subatomic” via the Gates Notes inspired us to create a UpFront Research Report on the keyword “subatomic”. This report can be accessed by our Go Pro Paid members. |
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: ✔️ The paperclip
U.S. Patent No. 635,520 filed by William Middlebrook.
Though a similar design was made earlier in Norway (Gem style), this version was for the machine that made them.
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