Patent News for Friday 17th April 2026

1. Chinese carmaker patents voice-controlled 'in-vehicle toilet' - Yahoo! Finance Canada

Chinese carmaker patents voice-controlled 'in-vehicle toilet'. Osmond Chia - Business reporter. Thu, April 16, 2026 at 11:54 p.m. PDT ...

2. Chinese Carmaker Patents Voice Controlled In Car Toilet - Yahoo Style Canada

Chinese Carmaker Patents Voice Controlled In Car Toilet. Cover Media. Fri, April 17, 2026 at 4:15 a.m. PDT. Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see ...

3. Koenigsegg Just Found A Genius Way To Fix Unbalanced Engine Configurations - CarBuzz

It didn't make it to market, but two new patents show that the dream isn't dead. Instead, the company is working to make it even better, using a ...

4. Chinese EV Maker Patents Voice-Controlled In-Car Toilet - ColombiaOne.com

A Chinese EV company patents a voice-controlled in-car toilet, highlighting new trends in vehicle comfort and innovation.

5. How ethnic collaborative networks facilitate Chinese inventors' knowledge remittances | PLOS One

We test the proposed relationships using a unique dataset of patents in the integrated circuit industry. Results show that ethnic knowledge ...

6. Case: Patents/Obviousness (P.T.A.B.) - Bloomberg Law News

Case: Patents/Obviousness (P.T.A.B.). April 17, 2026, 8:12 AM PDT. Challenged claims of Sandvik Intellectual Property AB's patent that relates to ...

7. Case: Patents/Procedure (Fed. Cir.) - Bloomberg Law News

Case: Patents/Procedure (Fed. Cir.) April 17, 2026, 11:25 AM UTC. The Federal Circuit denied an inventor's petition for a writ of mandamus related ...

8. Extra Credit, Not Required: Teva v. Lilly and the Limits of Amgen's Reach - Patently-O

The “antibody patents” claimed the humanized anti-CGRP antagonist antibodies themselves, while the “headache patents” at issue here claimed methods of ...

9. Same Problem, Same Solution: Reading Trade Secrets Across Fields - Patently-O

... patents; that the fourth (the Penuma instrument list) had lost any secrecy when it was emailed to third parties without confidentiality ...

10. BlackBerry, JVCKENWOOD and SK Telecom Join Sisvel POS Patent Pool as Licensors

Participating patent owners make their relevant standards essential patents (SEPs) available on FRAND terms, simplifying access to essential IP rights ...

11. Trina Solar TOPCon patents invalidated in U.S. ruling involving Canadian Solar

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has invalidated all claims of two TOPCon solar cell patents previously asserted by Trina Solar against ...

12. Canadian Solar wins US ruling on Trina TOPCon patents - Solarbytes

The US Patent Trial and Appeal Board has issued final decisions invalidating all claims of two Trina TOPCon patents challenged by certain ...

13. AccelerComm says it has secured its 56th patent for 5G non-terrestrial networks

“These patents protect technology that is now operating on live satellite networks, inside 5G chipsets, and within the global standards that define ...

14. Chinese Carmaker Patents Voice Controlled In Car Toilet - Yahoo Life UK

Chinese Carmaker Patents Voice Controlled In Car Toilet. Cover Media. Fri, 17 April 2026 at 4:15 am GMT-7. Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see ...

15. Dolby hits Barco over Dolby Vision patents | Advanced Television

Audio specialists Dolby Labs has filed a lawsuit against Belgian image and projector business Barco over claimed DR patents allegedly held by ...

16. China's Seres patents groundbreaking in-car toilet design - Auto Express

China's Seres patents groundbreaking in-car toilet design. Caught short with no service stations in sight? Seres has the perfect solution for you ...

17. Nestle, General Mills granted patents - Baking Business

WASHINGTON — The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted a range of patents related to the baking industry from Dec. 16 to Dec.

18. Chinese carmaker Seres patents voice-controlled "in-vehicle toilet" - BBC

Chinese carmaker patents voice-controlled 'in-vehicle toilet'. 24 minutes ago. Share.

19. Gilead Sciences patents new GTPase KRAS G12D inhibitors | BioWorld

To read more on related topics, click on one of the words below. BioWorld Science Cancer Patents. KEYWORDS Gilead Sciences Inc. GTPase KRAS (G12D ...

20. Chinese automaker patents voice-activated in-car toilet | Daily Express Malaysia

Chinese automaker patents voice-activated in-car toilet. SHANGHAI: A Chinese automaker has patented a toilet concealed beneath a sliding car seat ...

21. World Intellectual Property Day on 26 Ap - DPMA

Sport is, in effect, 'IP in action': patents drive technological advances that lead to better sports equipment. ... Ottobock has filed around 1900 ...

22. #GTGraphic: Chinese firms secured 4 spots in the world's top 10 international patent ... - Facebook

Patents are often seen as indicators of innovation and technological progress, which can drive economic growth. On Innovation and Productivity, ...

23. Teva scores in appeal as court revives $177M verdict against Lilly in migraine patent spat

... patents tied to methods of using antibodies for migraine treatment by inhibiting peptides. (iStock / Getty Images Plus). Following a quiet stretch ...

24. HSF Kramer secures $17 million patent verdict for Cyandia against SAP America, SAP SE

The jury found that SAP had violated two of Cyandia's patents covering technologies for managing multiple information forms across computing devices ...

25. Report: Merck's blockbuster cancer drug topped $200,000 a year under Trump - ICIJ

... patents to deter competition and through opaque pricing. An ICIJ ... How Merck uses patents to help maintain Keytruda's exorbitant price. Apr ...

26. Beware the Cost of Incorrect Inventorship | Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP - JDSupra

Fortress Iron designs and sells railing and fencing products for outside living spaces. In 2021, it sued a competitor, asserting two related patents ...

27. ITC Told Wrongly Claimed Patent Fee Discounts Sink Chip Suit - Law360 UK

... patents expired as a matter of law years ago, when the proper fees were not paid. In addition to the four patents from the ITC case that Avalanche ...

28. SOP for Investigation of Offences under the Patents Act, 1970 - Legal Service India - Articles

Criminal offences under the Patents Act, 1970, explained with investigation SOP, penalties, BNSS rules, and key case laws.

29. Qualcomm-Wayve Collaboration: Reshaping Software-Defined Vehicles with AI - Lexology

The race toward intelligent mobility in the United States automotive technology market is Accelerating, and AI driving technology patents are ...

30. The Great Patent Pivot: How Recent USPTO Policy Shifts Made Challenging Patents Harder

... patents while simultaneously strengthening the position of patent holders. These shifts represent a significant departure from previous approaches ...

31. Federal Circuit Breathes New Life into Methods Claiming Use of an Antibody Genus

The court emphasized that the “headache patents make clear that their claimed invention is the use of anti-CGRP antagonist antibodies, or humanized ...

32. Chinese carmaker patents voice-controlled toilet | Watch - MSN

Chinese carmaker patents voice-controlled toilet ... Chinese electric vehicle maker Seres has patented a voice-controlled in-car toilet designed for use ...

33. Adeia initiates patent infringement litigation against AMD - MSN

In its filings today, Adeia alleges AMD infringes ten patents from Adeia's semiconductor intellectual property portfolio – seven patents covering ...

34. The global patent landscape of optogenetics: current advances, challenges and opportunities

Patents; Published: 17 April 2026. Patents. The global patent landscape of optogenetics: current advances, challenges and opportunities. Yufan Zhang ...

35. U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board Invalidates Trina's TOPCon Patents - PR Newswire

... patents. These patents were previously asserted by Trina Solar Co., Ltd. ("Trina") against certain subsidiaries of Canadian Solar. This ruling ...

36. Portions of Trina Solar TOPCon patents deemed 'unpatentable'

... patents were unpatentable, and Runergy and Canadian Solar are therefore not infringing. Trina possesses two TOPCon patents: U.S. Patent Nos.

37. Canadian Solar: PTAB voids Trina TOPCon patents | CSIQ Stock News

All claims in two TOPCon solar cell patents were invalidated after Trina asserted them against Canadian Solar subsidiaries in a U.S. patent case.

38. ApitBio registers CD171 antibody patents in four countries including Australia, securing ...

Patents registered in Korea, Australia, Mexico, and Macau, with U.S. ... patents for its 'CD171 (L1CAM) targeted antibody' for the treatment ...

39. Chinese car company patents voice-activated 'in-vehicle toilet' - UPI.com

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40. DOJ's Recent Statements Reflect Consistent Focus, Balanced Approach to Antitrust and IP ...

Through these statements, the DOJ has argued that 1) patents do not automatically confer market power; 2) antitrust law should not be used to police ...

41. Wind power patents: Dongfang | Nordex | Envision | Equinor | Windpower Monthly

Read Wind power patents: Dongfang | Nordex | Envision | Equinor and other wind energy news & analysis on Windpower Monthly.

42. Chinese carmaker patents voice-controlled 'in-vehicle toilet' | WINNFM 98.9

Chinese carmaker patents voice-controlled 'in-vehicle toilet' ... (BBC) – Chinese carmaker Seres has been granted a patent for what it calls an “in- ...

43. China's Hisense Refutes Infringing Gree's Patents by Using 'Genuine Copper Materials' in ...

audio is not supported! China's Hisense Refutes ...