Patents, Innovation, Healthcare

The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act and Life Sciences Innovation

Foley & Lardner LLP on 7/15/2025

The biotechnology and life science sectors underpin breakthroughs in health care, agriculture, and environmental sustainability by leveraging living systems to create next-generation medicines, diagnostics, and bio-based...more

Patents and Trade Secrets in AI and Life Sciences

MoFo Life Sciences on 2/11/2025

This post is part of MoFo’s 2025 Intersection of AI and Life Sciences blog series. In this blog series, we explore how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing research, innovation, and patient care in the life sciences....more

Protecting Innovations in SaMD & Biomedical Applications

Foley & Lardner LLP on 6/28/2023

With the ever-growing adaptation of software in all realms of health care, the market for software for medical devices (SaMD) is forecasted to grow 16.7% per year over the next decade and surpass $5 billion by 2032....more

Recessions and Patent Applications: Navigating the Ups and Downs of the Innovation Economy

Knobbe Martens on 5/23/2023

As predictions of an economic recession in the United States loom, 2023 has started with extensive layoffs throughout the tech industry. Though not to an equal degree, the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and life science...more

PTO Releases Report on Confirmatory Genetic Diagnostic Testing

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 10/7/2015

More than three years after the June 15, 2012 deadline for providing it, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued its report on so-called "second opinion" genetic diagnostic testing, mandated by Section 27 of the...more

Mechanical Ventilation Innovation Challenge

Knobbe Martens on 8/25/2015

According to press releases, the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) and Edison Nation Medical have partnered to search for innovations for improving the process, outcomes, and comfort for patients requiring...more