CAFC Shoots Down Patentee’s Bid to Reclaim Deducted Patent Term

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Monday said the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) properly deducted days from a patentee’s Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) under Supernus Pharms., Inc. v. Iancu because there were clear steps the applicant could have taken to conclude prosecution. Eurica Califorrniaa owns U.S. Patent 10,245,075…

Security automation startup Veriti launches out of stealth with $18.5M

Veriti, a platform for unifying cybersecurity infrastructure, today emerged from stealth with $18.5 million in funding, a combination of $12 million from Insight Partners and a $6.5 million round led by NFX and Amiti. According to CEO Adi Ikan, the newly announced capital is being put toward scaling Veriti’s business operations and developing its product…

Eliyan raises $40M from Intel and Micron to build chiplet interconnects

Increasingly, as Moore’s law rears its ugly head, computer chip developers are adopting “chiplet” architectures to scale their hardware’s processing power. Chiplets are Lego-like integrated circuit blocks designed to work with other, similar chiplets to form complex, stackable chips that boost performance while maintaining a similar physical footprint. Chiplets offer a number of advantages over…

Audio Pro Link2 lets you add streaming smarts to vintage hi-fi

Not content with offering everything from big, easy floorstanding TV speakers to extremely cute rose-gold Bluetooth options, Scandinavian specialist Audio Pro is also giving users a way to upgrade whatever older hi-fi kit they already own.  The product is called Link2, and it’s actually the company’s second-generation high-quality audio streamer, offering an instant upgrade to…

Google and Renault are building a “software defined vehicle”

Google and Renault Group have announced a significant expansion of their partnership that will bring the former’s Google Cloud infrastructure much more heavily into play. The companies, who started working together in 2018, hope to deliver a new digital architecture to underpin a “Software Defined Vehicle” (SDV) that will be able to benefit from on-demand…

The S&P 500 could plunge another 16% and won’t bottom until the Fed starts to cut interest rates, UBS says

Stocks won’t bottom until the Federal Reserve starts cutting interest rates, according to UBS. Mario Tama/Getty Images The S&P 500 will fall to 3,200 points before it hits a low in Q2 next year, UBS has forecast. US stocks won’t recover until the Federal Reserve starts cutting interest rates, the bank said. “The speed of…