STARKVILLE — SemiSouth Laboratories Inc. has earned its 30th U.S. patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. U.S. patent 8,169,022 was issued May 1 titled “Vertical Junction Field Effect Transistors and Diodes Having Graded Doped Regions and Methods of Making.” It was co-invented by Dr. Michael Mazzola, a co-founder of SemiSouth in 2000 when [...] [...]
JACKSON — A federal lawsuit filed this week in Mississippi claims a major pharmaceutical company made millions of dollars by misrepresenting clinical data and using sham litigation to maintain a monopoly over a drug used to treat depression and anxiety. Uniondale Chemists Inc., a retail pharmacy in Uniondale, N.Y., filed the lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. [...] [...]

STARKVILLE — Kenaf, a fibrous plant that is similar to bamboo, is the subject of two Mississippi State University patents that have been licensed to a Texas manufacturer. Corn Board Manufacturing, Inc. plans to use kenaf to make pressed board. “CBMI is looking to blend kenaf into their board products, to achieve the combination of [...] [...]
WASHINGTON — Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker say that more job creation could result from the enactment of bipartisan Senate legislation to reform the American patent system. Cochran and Wicker are among 25 senators who have written to Majority Leader Harry Reid asking him to allow the Senate to debate and vote on the [...] [...]