The company pulled two watches from stores after losing a patent case, but an appeals court temporarily paused enforcement of that ruling while the legal battle continues.
Category: Inventions and Patents
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His Ancestor’s Watch Was Wound Every 40 Days. He Made It 41.
Stéphane von Gunten was inspired by his great-great-grandfather’s achievement, but he has managed to better it.
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Overlooked No More: Ángela Ruiz Robles, Inventor of an Early E-Reader
Long before Kindles and iPads became popular, Ruiz Robles, a teacher, created her Mechanical Encyclopedia to help lighten her students’ textbook load.
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Martin Goetz, Who Received the First Software Patent, Dies at 93
“I knew at some point in time the patent office would recognize” computer software, he said. It happened in 1968, helping to ignite the software market.
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La saga de los Jacuzzi, la familia detrás de las tinas de hidromasaje
Una historia de inmigrantes, del sueño americano y el aparato que definió la sensualidad burguesa.
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Common Patenting Tactic by Drug Companies May Be Illegal, F.T.C. Says
Experts say the exploitation of a loophole in the patent system has contributed to high prices for inhalers.
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‘A Jacuzzi Is a Person, Not a Machine: The Story Behind the Jacuzzi Family
An immigrant story, an American dream, a machine that defined bourgeois sensuality.
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Wisk and Archer Will Collaborate on Air Taxis and End Legal Fight
Wisk Aero, owned by Boeing, entered a financial and technological partnership with Archer Aviation and dropped a lawsuit claiming theft of trade secrets.
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How to Create a Groundbreaking Watch
The watchmaker Stephen McDonnell spent six years developing the LM Sequential EVO chronograph with MB&F. Here’s the timeline.
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How Gilead Profited by Slow-Walking a Promising H.I.V. Therapy
Gilead delayed a new version of a drug, allowing it to extend the patent life of a blockbuster line of medications, internal documents show.
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Can A.I. Invent?
A group of legal experts are pressing patent agencies, courts and policymakers to address the question as generative A.I. seems on the brink of invading another uniquely human endeavor.
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U.S. Loses Key Case on Rights to H.I.V.-Prevention Drugs
In an unusual court trial, a federal jury sided with the drug maker Gilead Sciences in a dispute over who came up with the idea of using a daily pill to prevent H.I.V.