This week, Ryder System, Inc. (NYSE: R), announced a new corporate venture capital fund called RyderVentures.
The fund seeks to invest $50 million over the next 5 years involving start-ups that are developing new innovations in the logistics and transportation
Founders routinely need to disclose their groundbreaking technologies to third party investors, suitors, collaborators, peers, consultants and others in order to grow and establish their business in their respective markets. Savvy executives understand that disclosing or commercializing an invention before
Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company will purchase four-year-old Disarm Therapeutics, a Cambridge-based biotechnology company, for $135 million up front. Investors reportedly could receive an additional $1.225 billion depending on the success of Lilly’s development and commercialization efforts relating to
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed software that produces super-resolution virtual, 3D images of cells contained in actual individual samples, allowing scientists to better explore cells and proteins in such samples.
Their hope is the software tool will
Boston-based Moderna has announced that it will not enforce its patent rights related to its experimental vaccine for COVID-19, because “it feel[s] a special obligation under the current circumstances to use [its] resources to bring this pandemic to an end
With the EU’s 2018 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which became effective January 2020, and the patchwork of U.S. state privacy regulations that continue to roll out, privacy has been a hot topic in
On October 7, 2020, Scribe Therapeutics announced a collaboration with Biogen, to collaborate on CRISPR-based medicines for treating neurological diseases, and specifically Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. That deal is valued at $15 million in upfront commitments, with as much as
Nowadays, the concept of business can rarely prescind from globalization. But the rules and regulations that provide Intellectual Property protection have not always been able to keep up with the internationalization of business. Because generally Intellectual Property protection is afforded
French microLED display startup Aledia announced it closed an €80M first tranche of its €120M D-round financing. The company will reportedly use the funds to finish product development and create a new high-volume 3D microLED manufacturing facility in France for
Leaders of emerging companies must make many critical decisions at the outset of their company’s growth cycle, not the least of which is whether to seek and obtain patent protection for the company’s core technology.
Seeking and obtaining patent protection
