Patenting by European universities on the rise

High concentrations of academic patents at some universities and in some countries

23-Oct-2024 - European universities are behind more than 10% of all patent applications filed at the EPO from within Europe. However, wide variations in patterns of ownership and commercialisation are much in evidence. Europe’s universities are becoming increasingly vibrant workshops for many inventions in ...

New cathode material developed and patented

A cathode material with enhanced performance and a quicker method for its production: With it, the lithium-ion battery can last up to 10% longer

18-Oct-2024 - A research team from the Skoltech Energy Center, led by Distinguished Professor and director of the center Artem Abakumov, secured a patent for high-capacity cathode materials in lithium-ion batteries made from layered nickel-rich transition metal oxides, as well as a new hydrothermal ...

Startups with patents and trade marks are 10 times more successful in securing funding

Biotechnology sector leads in the use of patents and trade marks, with nearly half of the sector’s startups seeking these essential rights

19-Oct-2023 - the European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) have published a new joint study highlighting how much patents and trade marks can boost the success of European startups. The report shows that, on average, startups that possess these two types of ...

High-tech start-ups benefit from Twitter hype

Study shows correlation between Twitter sentiment and the valuation of start-ups by venture capitalists

18-Feb-2021 - The short message service Twitter has played a prominent role in US politics in recent weeks and months and attracted a lot of attention. Even in business, Twitter users' tweets are being closely followed and used as a basis for decision-making. A new study shows that venture capitalists can also ...

USA still patent Superpower

But China is catching up fast

05-Jun-2020 - The international balance of power in innovation is shifting. When it comes to world-class patents in important cutting-edge technologies, the United States still occupies the leading position in almost every field. But China is catching up fast or has already overtaken the United States in some ...

This computer program makes pharma patents airtight

21-Jan-2019 - Routes to making life-saving medications and other pharmaceutical compounds are among the most carefully protected trade secrets in global industry. Building on recent work programming computers to identify synthetic pathways leading to pharmaceutically complex molecules, researchers in Poland ...

Tracking codes to authenticate genuine 3-D printed parts

23-Aug-2018 - The worldwide market for 3D-printed parts is a $5 billion business with a global supply chain involving the internet, email, and the cloud - creating a number of opportunities for counterfeiting and intellectual property theft. Flawed parts printed from stolen design files could produce dire ...

Challenging counterfeit products with rare earths

New marking technique could halt product piracy

29-Jan-2018 - Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have developed the world's most secure marking system for combatting pirated goods including pirated pharmaceuticals, foodstuffs, designer merchandise and artwork. The system could be on the market in a year and because the markings are random, it ...

A patent-free playground

Researchers and industrial companies collaborate to create a new Open Science platform

01-Aug-2017 - Along with a number of leading Danish industrial companies, Aarhus University has opted out of the patent rat race in a new collaboration on industrially relevant basic research. Researchers and companies from all over Denmark publish all their results and data on the innovative Open Science ...

NRL issued patent for solar microbial fuel cell

28-Jun-2017 - The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, has received a U.S. patent for a self-assembling, self-repairing, and self-contained microbial photoelectrochemical solar cell driven entirely by sunlight and microorganisms. A solar microbial fuel cell ...