The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued new guidance this month on nature-based products. The new document is a revision of a guidance released in March stating that to be eligible for patents, such inventions must be “significantly different” and show structural differences from natural products (see IBO 7/15/14). Feedback from stakeholders claiming that […]
According to the “2014 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard,” the world’s top 2,500 companies for R&D investment spent €538.5 billion ($718.0 billion) on R&D in fiscal 2013, an increase of 4.9%. Net sales growth for these firms was 2.7%, and their capital spending increased 2.5%. Scoreboard companies each invested more than €15.5 million ($20.7 million) […]
St. Louis, MO 12/22/14—Emerson has acquired Cascade Technologies, a Scotland-based manufacturer of gas analyzers and monitoring systems using quantum cascade laser (QCL) technology, which can measure multiple gases simultaneously. “The acquisition of Cascade Technologies is an exciting step as we further strengthen our gas-analysis portfolio,” commented Tom Moser, Group vice president of Emerson Process Management’s […]
Washington, DC 12/30/14—HTG Molecular Diagnostics has filed with the SEC for a public offering of its common stock on the NASDAQ stock exchange. No stock price or offering date was disclosed. The company provides the HTG Edge platform, consumables and software for facilitating complex molecular profiling for routine use in clinical and research applications. The […]
Goettingen, Germany 12/19/14—Lab- and process-technology company Sartorius has agreed to sell its Industrial Technologies Division (Intec) to Japanese Minebea and the Development Bank of Japan. The sales price will be determined by Intec’s operating profit this year, but the parties have agreed on a 7.5 multiple of Intec’s 2014 operating EBITDA. “By selling our Intec […]
Although growing slower than in 2013, the US equity bull market continued to rally in 2014, capping a nearly six-year run. Spurred by loose monetary policy, sturdy corporate profits and improved economic data, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ advanced 7.5%, 11.4% and 13.4%, respectively, in 2014. US equity markets withstood a […]
Signed into law on December 16, the US federal government’s fiscal 2015 (October 1, 2014–September 30, 2014) budget showed few major increases for R&D spending. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) estimates that the total federal R&D budget increased just 1.7% to $137,611 million, with funding for nondefense R&D rising 1.6% to […]
Pleasanton, CA 21/19/14; Redwood, CA 12/19/14—Roche has agreed to acquire Bina Technologies for an undisclosed amount. Bina provides a big-data platform for the centralized management and processing of next-generation sequencing (NGS) data for the academic and translational-research markets. The Bina Genomic Management Solution (Bina-GMS) enables the fast and scalable analysis of genomic data. “Informatics and […]
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