Beyond product cycles: the systems, research and decisions that change how the world works.
A Delaware lawsuit adds JA Solar companies and American Panel Solutions to a growing dispute over a manufacturing patent for high-efficiency crystalline-silicon cells. The filing could test how broadly one of solar's most commercially important process portfolios reaches.
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The multi-year agreement gives Amazon broader access to application-optimized silicon blueprints while shifting Synopsys toward a license-plus-royalty model. It is a major test of how reusable chip IP will shape the custom-silicon race.
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The first U.S. appellate result in an AI-training copyright dispute leaves Ross Intelligence's fair-use defense rejected, but the sealed opinion makes sweeping conclusions premature.
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A Delaware judge refused to dismiss Bayer and Monsanto’s patent suits against Moderna, Pfizer and BioNTech. The ruling keeps the cases alive, but does not establish infringement or finally settle the patent’s validity.
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The court said combining browsing history, page context and revenue-weighted ad selection remained an abstract idea under Section 101. The nonprecedential ruling is a focused warning about claiming business logic without a specific computing improvement.
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A San Diego jury found that Apple infringed two Taction haptics patents and awarded $5.72 billion, but rejected willfulness. The verdict is a major patent result—not the final endpoint of a case Apple says it will appeal.
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The redesigned Copilot unifies assisted work, internal app building and cloud-hosted agents—but its most ambitious capabilities will arrive through previews and usage-based billing.
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The agreement gives Novo exclusive global rights to apply PharmaShell to as many as five peptide-drug programs. Monthly and quarterly injections are targets, not approved products, and most of the headline value remains contingent on development and sales.
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The $30 million spacecraft could not capture and raise the aging observatory, but its 85-day flight produced unusually candid evidence about the promise—and unforgiving engineering—of commercial satellite servicing.
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