Over the last seven months, the pandemic starkly illuminated both the tremendous potential and the significant limitations of telehealth today. Tyto Care Ltd. benefited tremendously from the increase in physician visits using its proprietary all-in-one modular device and examination platform as patients tried to avoid exposure to the novel coronavirus. It also recognized the opportunity to improve the quality of remote interactions with artificial intelligence (AI).

The case of Arthrex v. Smith & Nephew at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was something of a nuclear option for the patent dispute at hand, as it raised a constitutional question regarding the appointment of administrative patent judges (APJ) at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a consolidation of three petitions for cert arising from the Arthrex case, the outcome of which could force the reopening of a number of cases already decided by the PTAB.

Although funds raised for med-tech companies in the third quarter were less than half of the amount raised in the second quarter and 14% less than the first quarter, it was still the best quarter of 2020 for IPOs and venture capital (VC) financings. It also pushed the money raised through all financing types to its highest level in four years.

Intervenn Biosciences said it has identified stark differences in the glycoproteomic profile of COVID-19 patients who became very sick and people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus who were either asymptomatic or experienced only minimal effects. The contrast could help clinicians better understand the biological mechanisms of the disease and triage patients at risk of responding detrimentally to early treatments and more intensive care.

LONDON – Oncimmune Holdings plc has won government funding to apply its autoantibody biomarker technology to develop a COVID-19 immune profiling tool for triaging patients and predicting response to therapies and vaccines in development against the virus. The company will cross reference serum samples from 3,000 COVID-19 patients against its library of 800 SARS-CoV-2 related antigens and peptides to identify autoantibodies that characterize the range of immune responses to the infection.