Tag: patent
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Drug Companies Urged to Conserve Antibiotics to Fight Resistance
A new report recommends that pharmaceutical companies take a different approach to combating resistance to antibiotic drugs. An article published today in the journal Health Affairs suggests physicians, hospitals, and drug makers coordinate their practices to extend the effective lifetimes of antibiotics. The paper, by Aaron S. Kesselheim of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard…
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Chinese Patents, R&D Funds Climb in 2010
The Xinhua news agency reports that the number of patents and research and development funding by China’s largest companies have climbed so far in 2010, according to data released by the China Enterprise Confederation (CEC). The CEC says China’s top 500 companies held 169,000 patents in 2010, up 13.3 percent from last year. Some 41…
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Prof Creates High-Value Chemicals from Biomass
An Iowa State University researcher in Ames, Iowa has discovered a method for producing chemicals such as ethylene glycol and propylene glycol from biomass rather than petroleum. Both chemicals are used in a variety of commercial and industrial products. Walter Trahanovsky, an Iowa State professor of chemistry was looking to produce sugar derivatives from cellulose…
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Patent Awarded for Drug Spray/Dispersion Technology
Bend Research Inc., a developer of drug formulation technology in Bend, Oregon, says it received a U.S. patent covering a process for making spray-dried solid amorphous dispersions of drugs using pressure nozzles. The patent — No. 7,780,988 assigned by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — covers a spray-drying process for producing solid amorphous dispersions…
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Slow Uptake for Green Tech Patent Fast Track
Martin LaMonica reports today in CNet that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) accelerated review program for green technology patent applications has not had the anticipated overwhelming response. In December 2009, USPTO announced it would bump up to the front of the queue for appraisal patent petitions for environmental technologies. Under the accelerated review,…
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Patent Allowance Granted for Microwave Peptide Synthesis
CEM Corporation, a maker of microwave lab instruments in Matthews, North Carolina, says the European Patent Office now allows the company’s patent claims for its process of microwave peptide synthesis. Peptides are amino acid compounds found in proteins. The company says allowance covers the process of using microwave energy to accelerate two key steps in…
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USDA Research Leads to Commercial Stinging Insect Trap
Wasps, hornets, and yellow jackets will spoil any summer barbeque or picnic, but they also pose a serious threat to agriculture field workers, particularly at harvest time. Research by scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), has led to development of a trap that protects picnickers…
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Patent Awarded for Antimicrobial Polyurethane Resins
AdvanSource Biomaterials Corp. in Wilmington, Massachusetts, has received a Notice of Allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on its patent for antimicrobial polyurethane resins and derivative products. The notice indicates that AdvanSource Biomaterials is entitled to this patent under the law. The patent covers a drug-free, antimicrobial technology to eradicate Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus…
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New Process Produces Iron Without the CO2
Stuart Licht, a professor of chemistry at George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C., has developed a carbon dioxide-free method of producing iron that uses solar energy and a process of solar conversion. Licht has patented this process, called Solar Thermal Electrochemical Photo (STEP) energy conversion, which offers an alternative to the same basic polluting…
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Patent Awarded for Low Testosterone Treatment
Repros Therapeutics Inc. in the Woodlands, Texas announced the U.S. Patent and Trademark office has issued a patent for Androxal, the company’s lead treatment for low testosterone in men. This patent claims methods and materials for the treatment of testosterone deficiency in men with secondary hypogonadism, when the sex glands produce little or no hormones.…