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MLB The Cleveland Indians and Minnesota Twins are playing a two-game series in Puerto Rico, the first regular-season MLB games on the island in eight years. Two-time All-Star Francisco Lindor was born in Puerto Rico and hit a home run in the fifth inning. The crowd erupted as Lindor was rounding the bases. Twins pitcher […]
Enlarge / Reconstruction of a Taino village in Cuba. (credit: Michal Zalewski) The Caribbean was one of the last parts of the Americas to be settled by humans, although scientists don’t agree on when the first settlers arrived or where they came from. Some argue that people probably arrived from the Amazon Basin, where today’s […]
Building a modern, distributed application can be a tough problem to tackle, especially for new users. They have to learn how to program, then learn the syntax for all of the tools necessary, which is often different. Brendan Burns, the cofounder of Kubernetes, introduced a new programming framework today that’s designed to provide programmers with […]
Thomson Reuters The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe sued Amazon and Microsoft for patent infringement. The lawsuit is part of a legal gambit in which the tribe acquired patents from SRC Labs, and then invoked its right to sovereign immunity, which could shield SRC and the tribe from counter-challenges. One federal judge invalidated a similar deal […]
Enlarge (credit: St. Regis Mohawk Tribe / Aurich Lawson) The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe has filed patent lawsuits against Amazon and Microsoft, using patents it acquired from a company called SRC Labs, according to reports in Reuters and CNBC. Until recently, the patents were owned by a holding company called SRC Labs, which is a co-plaintiff in today’s […]
Reuters Allergan struck an unusual deal with the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe to transfer patents of the eye drug Restasis, a move that gives the drug sovereign immunity from certain patent challenges. But on Monday, a district court judge invalidated some of Restasis ‘s patents through another channel. The loss in district court means that Allergan […]
Don’t invite a star chef to meet up at the South African equivalent of Starbucks. She’ll promptly lead you somewhere quieter, and far cooler. At least that was my experience with Nompumelelo Mqwebu, whose list of accomplishments is such that it’s hard to know where to begin. A frequent guest on radio and TV programs; […]
Enlarge / Allergan’s R&D and global production site in Pringy, France. (credit: JEAN-PIERRE CLATOT/AFP/Getty Images) A federal judge ruled today that patents protecting Allergan’s $ 1.5 billion blockbuster dry-eye drug, Restasis, are invalid due to obviousness. The international drug company’s stock dropped about five percent on the news. The ruling by US Circuit Judge William […]
Enlarge / US Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) at a hearing earlier this year. (credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Allergan’s move to stop its patents from being reviewed by handing them off to a Native American tribe is winning support from few people outside the drug company. Now one lawmaker is seeking to ban it. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) has […]
Reuters In September, Allergan struck an unusual deal with the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe to transfer patents of the eye drug Restasis, a move that gives the drug sovereign immunity from certain patent challenges. The goal is to protect the blockbuster drug from generic competition before its patents run out in 2024. Lawmakers aren’t too happy […]
