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Post by mssciguy on Dec 24, 2015 12:09:41 GMT -5
www.freepatentsonline.com/y2015/0369743.htmlThis is very standard industry practice. I hope that there is a reason that every little detail is being patented, rather than keeping the trade secrets in house. Maybe so the process can be spun off or sold?
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Post by EveningOfTheDay on Dec 24, 2015 13:41:30 GMT -5
Once again, this could have to do with Mr. Mann's comments on sharing processes with Sanofi. I can imagine they would want to patent every little thing if they were doing that.
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Post by jpg on Dec 24, 2015 14:33:15 GMT -5
Google Kyle Bass and Celegene and see why patenting every little piece of IP makes sense.
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Post by lakers on Jan 7, 2016 18:53:42 GMT -5
Substituted diketopiperazine analogs for use as drug delivery agents patents.justia.com/patent/9220687Patent number: 9220687 Abstract: Disclosed are drug delivery systems for the delivery of small molecule and macromolecular drugs. More particularly, disclosed are substituted analogs of 3,6-di(alkyl-4 aminobutyl)-2,5-diketopiperazine (which may also be referred to DKP), their use in the formulation of both small molecule and macromolecular drugs including therapeutic, prophylactic and diagnostic agents, stabilizing agents and systems for their delivery. Type: Grant Filed: November 7, 2014 Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: MannKind Corporation Inventor: Kelly Sullivan Kraft Powder dispenser modules and powder dispenser assemblies patents.justia.com/patent/9221561Patent number: 9221561 Abstract: A powder dispenser module (54) includes a housing (150) that defines a conduit connecting a powder inlet and a powder outlet, a feed wand (160) to move powder through the conduit from the powder inlet to the powder outlet, the feed wand (200) including a lower feed element (230) coupled to a first drive shaft and an upper feed element (220) coupled to a second drive shaft, a first actuator coupled to the first drive shaft to rotate the lower feed element (230), and a second actuator coupled to the second drive shaft to rotate the upper feed element (220). In other embodiments, the feed wand (200) includes a shaft having a fluidizing element and an actuator produces oscillatory movement of the feed wand during dispensing of powder. Dispenser module arrays include one or a few rows of dispenser modules. Type: Grant Filed: August 5, 2009 Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: MannKind Corporation Inventors: Rajesh Maheshwari, Rolf Scharger, Trent A. Poole, Per B. Fog DETERMINING PERCENT SOLIDS IN SUSPENSION USING RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY patents.justia.com/patent/20150369743Publication number: 20150369743 Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for determining weight percent of solids in a suspension using Raman spectroscopy. The methods can be utilized to acquire Raman spectral data from the suspension and to determine weight percent of solids in a process being carried out, for example, in a vessel, without the need to remove samples for analysis. The weight percent of the solids can be determined with a desired accuracy in a relatively short time, typically 10 minutes or less. The acquired Raman spectral data may be processed by chemometric software using, for example, a partial least squares algorithm and data pretreatment to provide a predicted value of weight percent solids. In some embodiments, the invention is used to determine the weight percent of microparticles of a diketopiperazine in an aqueous solution. Type: Application Filed: August 31, 2015 Publication date: December 24, 2015Applicant: MannKind Corporation Inventors: Jason J. Antunovich, Arthur T. Hamfeldt, Rodney J. Woods, Sam C. Shum |
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Post by afrizzle on Jan 7, 2016 19:06:32 GMT -5
The cost of patenting is cheap initially considering the amount of optionality it provides.
It's only after prosecutions starts and ROW fees are kicking in that serious decisions need to be made.
Fence posting is a great strategy when you're the one with the novelty
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Post by fofos2000i on Feb 19, 2016 6:50:37 GMT -5
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Post by yash on Feb 19, 2016 6:57:38 GMT -5
Nice fofos
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Post by mnholdem on Feb 19, 2016 8:09:21 GMT -5
Two of the inventors named on this patent are scientists at ATCC in Manassas, VA - a very interesting research organization.
Link: www.atcc.org/
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