There were 5,230 new patents issued at the US Patent Office for the week of June 22, 2021, not counting the Design and Reissue patents. This was one of the lightest issuances that I have seen so far. Below is the breakdown by Country.
Below is the breakdown by states.
Some of the top Chinese entities that are issued new US patents almost every week.
The table below are some of the top Assignees of the week.
The top ten longest time to patent grant for the week. Google comes in first place with a total of 6,292 days from filing to issuance. The patent is titled “Systems and methods for determining user actions”, which relates generally to determining user actions and, more particularly, to determining user actions associated with advertising. The patent has priority back to September 2003 and is well cited by other patents with 141. The named inventors Alex Roetter & Deepak Jindal were both early engineers at Google who had successful runs building their early programs.
The top ten shortest time to patent grant for the week was between 102 and 132 days. Well done to the teams!
A pullback in blockchain patents granted back to 23 this week after 30 last week. Advanced New Technologies added six more. A new name on the list Factom, Inc added four patents and now have eleven total.
There were eleven electric vehicle patents. Hexagon Purus is a name I have seen before and I will have to start digging through their website.
One of the largest weeks of Lidar patents with 12 new patents. Toyota was this weeks winner with 3.
Sarepta ($SRPT) Goes on the Offensive
Sarepta Therapeutics went on the patent offensive filing seven Inter Partes Review Challenges at the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board on June 21, 2021 against almost an entire patent family owned by Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd. & National Center Of Neurology And Psychiatry for patents titled “Antisense nucleic acids”. I am curious what the end game for Sarepta is with these filings and if they are getting ahead of licensing discussions or a potential litigation campaign filed by Nippon. If anyone has any further color on the filings please send me an email at iphawk@outlook.com
Here is how Nippon is described in Sarepta’s 2020 10K:
I ran the patent family through my new Patent Tree program.
I have added all of them to my watchlist. It appears that Sarepta is missing IPRs on four patents in the family, 9,079,934, 10,329,319, 10,870,676, and 11,028,122.
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