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46th annual Edison Patent Awards
Nov 24, 2025

2025 Edison Patent Awards honor top NJ innovators, leaders

Click through to learn more about this year's winners, highlighted for breakthroughs in biotech, AI, health care, defense and tech.

Marotta Controls patent
Aug 20, 2025

Marotta Controls secures patent for high-current power tech

The conversion technique "born out of necessity" improves efficiency in aerospace and defense systems.

Nokia Bell Labs marked its 100th anniversary in an April 9, 2025, celebration in Murray Hill.
Aug 6, 2025

2025 Edison Patent Awards spotlight NJ breakthroughs

The annual ceremony will honor Garden State innovators for key developments in biotech, defense, medtech and more at Bell Works this fall.

Novo Nordisk is the sole patent holder of semaglutide – the active ingredient in popular diabetes shot Ozempic and as well as blockbuster weight loss drug Wegovy. The company has said it is not supplied to outside entities.
Feb 22, 2024

Novo Nordisk settles lawsuits over copycat versions of Wegovy, Ozempic

Over the past year, the pharmaceutical company has filed 12 actions against clinics, medical spas and compounding pharmacies across the country that claimed to offer semaglutide, the active ingredient in the medications.

Edible Garden's flagship facility in Belvidere.
Feb 8, 2024

Edible Garden’s self-watering, in-store display gets US patent

"Consistent with our Zero-Waste Inspired mission, our self-watering displays enable retailers to present plants in their prime, reducing waste and offering superior products to consumers," according to CEO Jim Kras.

Edible Garden's flagship facility in Belvidere.
Jan 24, 2024

Edible Garden receives 3rd patent for greenhouse agriculture system

GreenThumb allows the Belvidere-based hydroponic farming company to track a plant through all stages of production and distribution as well as plan for demand.

Jan 9, 2024

Teva Pharmaceuticals scores win in patent infringement suit

A U.S. District Court judge in New Jersey determined that the drugmaker’s planned generic version of a treatment for Cushing’s syndrome does not violate Corcept Therapeutics' rights.

Opioids
May 2, 2022

Teva settles patent dispute with Lupin

The Parsippanny-based pharmaceutical company said the case involved Austedo, which is the first and only FDA-approved product to treat both tardive dyskinesia in adults and chorea associated with Huntingdon’s disease.

Wine & Cheer alcohol shopping cart
Sep 27, 2021

Rolling stock

A Wyckoff insurance agent and stay-at-home-mom couple who moonlight as inventors won a patent earlier this year for a shopping cart made especially for wine bottles: the Wine & Cheer Cart.