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IP Headlines
Fortress’s latest patent fund could top $900 million
Battery Company SK Innovation Averts Import Ban By Settling with LG Energy Solution for $1.8B
Six takeaways from the $1.8 billion finale to the LG Energy Solutions - SK Innovation IP dispute
Roku Cleared Of Infringement In $228M Interactive TV IP Trial Brought in WDTX By ESW Holdings
MoSys Expands Patent Portfolio with Purchase of Custom Algorithm Search Patents
IP Policy & Cases
The Senator Tillis USPTO Director red lines have real political bite
China tops in AI patent applications with 74.7% of world's total
UCANN Drops Patent Lawsuit, Hemp Grower Conference Dates Announced
Federal Circuit Rejects Apple's Bid To Nudge Albright On Transfer in Koss Case
Federal Circuit Affirms RPX's PTAB Win Over IP From Mobile Website, Publishing Technologies LLC
Federal Circuit Won't Let Foxconn Get TM In Dispute with Amazon Over Echo
Icon Health & Fitness Sues Peloton For Patent Infringement Over Bike
Consumer Electronics
Sony plans bigger push to bring PlayStation franchises to iPhone
Apple continues to test new cooling systems for future iPhones
Samsung Electronics May Develop Foldable Tablet PCs
LG Electronics: Earnings to Hit 12-Year High
Google's latest acquisition could lead to spatial audio for the Pixel Buds
Iliad buys 12% of Italian consumer electronics player Unieuro
Semiconductors
Bank of America: US semiconductor policy looks to cut out China, secure supply chain
Biden Says Senate Will Introduce Semiconductor Shortage Legislation Soon
Samsung, TSMC, and others to discuss global chip shortage at the White House summit
TSMC to discuss semiconductor shortage at the White House summit
Semiconductor chipmaker TSMC says revenue up 16.7% as demand surges
Semiconductor shipments expected to cross 1 trillion units in 2021
Automotive and EV
Semiconductor Shortage Could Result in 1.3 Million Fewer Vehicles in 2021
Magna will build EV with Israeli startup
Piedmont Increases Lithium Resources By 40%
China's capital envisages 10,000 fuel cell vehicles by 2025
Korean makers find solution for battery packs for electric cars
Apple-backed Chinese ride service Didi Chuxing files privately for IPO with ~$100B valuation
Teijin and Applied EV Develop Lightweight Autonomous Vehicle
Tesla’s AI is about to get better, and not just for Full Self-Driving
Tesla starts advertising Model 3 with 93 miles of range on its website in Canada
Tesla delivers insane number of electric cars in China
Rolls-Royce best first quarter results to date
Consumer car finance new business volumes fell by 27% in February 2021
Green and Solar
Renewables Buildout to Fall Short of Biden’s Climate Goal
Siemens Energy aims to get bigger in U.S.
Norway's sovereign wealth fund pushes into renewables with $1.6 billion ?rsted deal
Largest solar energy company in the world, Longi Green Energy, moves into hydrogen fuel
L&T wins EPC contract for KSA solar PV plant
Tesla hikes solar roof price on contracts signed over a year ago
Chinese photovoltaic businesses embrace low-carbon development
Perovskite solar: Bring on the future
The Prospect of Lead-Free Perovskite Photovoltaics
Lanthanum Cobalt Oxide Perovskite
Electrochemical Impedance Analysis of Perovskite-Electrolyte Interfaces
FinTech
Swedish FinTech Trustly plans $934 million IPO
Israeli FinTech startup TipRanks raises $77M
Fintech firm Monva raises more than ￡450,000 through crowd funding
Deltacore Capital, LLC launches Deltacore Digital Global LP
China's Ant to become financial holding firm under enforced revamp
Life Sciences and Covid
Japan university to set up institute on new cancer treatment
Solara Active Pharma Shares Gain On Merger With Aurore Life Sciences
IM Cannabis Provides Update on Adjupharm Business Developments in Germany
How cloud edge and IoT will improve pharma manufacturing
As vaccinations keep rising, so do Covid-19 hospitalizations among those who aren't vaccinated
Pfizer’s COVID-19 shot less effective against South African, B.1.135, variant: study
Double Mutant Covid-19 Variant Makes Its Way To The Us, Calling Into Question Vaccine Effectiveness
SARS-CoV-2 spike South Africa E484K mutation reduces antibody neutralization
Michigan's Covid cases surge to alarming levels, but Gov. Gretchen Whitmer rejects new mandates
Miscellaneous
Microsoft in talks to acquire Siri speech recognition partner Nuance for $16B
Another 500M accounts scraped: This time LinkedIn and other services
1.3 Mn Clubhouse Users’ Data ‘Leaked’ Online, Company Denies Claim
Apple's Rationale for Not Bringing iMessage to Android Revealed in Legal Documents