Asia’s patent offices carry the volume while Western megacaps in software, chips and medtech do most of the heavy filing. Drug majors are riding older IP waves instead of driving the boom. According to fresh WIPO data, innovators filed a record 3.7 million patent applications in 2024, up 4.9% from 2023 and the fastest growth…
2025 R&D layoffs tracker: hardware and chips lead the year’s biggest cuts while biopharma pares pipelines
Last updated: October 3, 2025 The heaviest R&D job losses this year cluster in hardware and semiconductors, with sizeable single events at Dell, Microsoft and Intel’s Oregon sites, while biopharma cuts are smaller per event but frequent as firms triage pipelines. Federal labs have also reduced staff amid budget uncertainty, including the CDC, NIH and…
Protégé brings query-free workflows to PatentSight+
LexisNexis unveiled Protégé, a natural language AI assistant that translates questions like “What are the top M&A targets in biotech?” into patent analytics insights. The firm positions the new offering as eliminating the need for users to master complex database syntax in the company’s PatentSight+ platform. The assistant parses a user’s prompt, maps it to…