Patently-O

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Design Patent No. D450,839 looks like a set of clown feet (image below), but, in actuality it covers “the ornamental design for a handle for introducer sheath” and is used as part of a medical catheter kit. The parties agree that the products described in the letter embody the design that was later patented.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

A patent is a legal document that provides exclusive rights to inventors over others in making, using, and selling their inventions for usually 20 years from the date of filling the patent application. Who can file a patent application? Indian Patent Act restricts the patent acts of new plant breed.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 30, 2023

Entertainment 2000, Inc. Within Metaverse, patents must be handled in accordance with three verticals: First, patents for the Metaverse technology itself, which may be further broken down into the hardware and software technologies required to create a distinctive and customized Metaverse. The Design Act.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

First up was the now-traditional EU and US Case Law Update presented by Jan Bernd Nordemann ( Nordemann ) and Vanessa Bailey ( Head of Patent Policy, Amazon ) that took the early morning attendees on a roller coaster ride of recent American and European trade mark, design, copyright and patent case-law.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 8, 2024

A patent which is granted in the territory of India can only be discharged within the borders of India, meaning the Patent rights are territorial in nature. Which means that there is no “Worldwide Patent”. Nonetheless, if a patent application is filed in India, that leads to the protection of the patent internationally.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 12, 2024

And The Covaxin Patent Saga Continues: BBIL Changes the Patent Application Again After the furor around the missing mention of ICMR in the Covaxin patent application, Bharat Biotech has made two important changes to their application, coincidentally before the Health Minister’s speech in Parliament.

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Patently-O

MAY 2, 2022

The Facts : On February 7, 2000 , the inventor’s company (MCE) offered to sell and install a butane-blending system to Equilon. The original patent application was filed Feb 9, 2021 –one year and two days later and outside the one year grace period. .” The Feb 7 date is important. ” = = = =.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Recently the Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s grant of summary judgment of no invalidity of a design patent under the on-sale bar provision of 35 U.S.C. § 8, 1999 letter before the D’839 Patent’s critical date, i.e., Feb. Junker filed a design patent application on Feb.

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IP Intelligence

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Recently the Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s grant of summary judgment of no invalidity of a design patent under the on-sale bar provision of 35 U.S.C. § 8, 1999 letter before the D’839 Patent’s critical date, i.e., Feb. 7, 1999, was a commercial offer for sale of a product embodying the claimed design.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

August 22, 2023, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, proposed the Patents (Amendment) Rules, 2023. This set of amendments if accepted has the potential of altering the entire patent ecosystem of the nation.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

SpicyIP Tidbits: Clarification on Jurisdiction of High Courts after the Tribunals Reform Act 2021, and Need for Reasoned Orders for Rejecting Patent Applications. Then we discussed the Bombay High Court’s decision to rebuke the Patent Office for dismissing a patent application without providing sufficient reasons for the same.

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SpicyIP

JULY 22, 2024

Controller of Patents and Designs: Madras High Court quashes unreasoned order of Patent Office Recently, the MHC came down heavily on the Indian Patent Office in Ulm University v. Controller of Patents for its non-speaking order rejecting a patent application. Other Posts Ulm University v.

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Intepat

AUGUST 25, 2023

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry on the 22nd August, 2023 published “The Draft Patents (Amendment), Rules, 2023” (Draft Rules). Patent applications and prosecution thereof is currently governed under the Patents Rules 2003 (2003 Rules).

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 30, 2022

Early efforts of patenting Metaverse technology come from the video game industry. That is, video games increasingly are designed to have interactive virtual worlds, which are a hallmark of the Metaverse. In addition, the above chart organizes patent application filings by Tech Center. Microsoft Corp., 101/ Alice.

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SpicyIP

JULY 22, 2023

It states that the current IP regime poses problems in the context of generic computer programs because of the way the algorithms are designed and trained using large data sets. They receive inputs at various stages of their development – be it designing the software, training the system and testing how it functions.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 24, 2023

This nexus requirement is designed to ensure, for instance, that commercial success is due to qualities of the invention being patented rather than some other advance or perhaps simply marketing. Nexus can be established via a presumption when the evidence is tied to a product that embodies and is coextensive with the claims.

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SpicyIP

MAY 6, 2024

The MHC in Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC vs Assistant Controller of Patents and Designs clarified the role of the ‘person skilled in the art’ (PSITA) in determining non-obviousness. Case Summaries Rich Products Corporation vs The Controller Of Patents & Anr. Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC v.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 17, 2023

Congress is using the UAIA to reduce barriers to patent system entry, such as the costs associated with filing and prosecuting patent applications as well as maintaining patents. Effective December 29, 2022, discounts related to patent costs for small and micro entities increased. Information Disclosure Statement.

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Intepat

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In India, the “share” of female inventors who filed patent applications between 2019-2021 was 10.2%. Challenges & Triumphs Women patent filers have encountered various challenges and triumphs in their pursuit of obtaining intellectual property rights over their inventions & creative innovations.

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IP Intelligence

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released its much anticipated Inventorship Guidance on AI-Assisted Inventions (“Guidance”). [1] 1] The Guidance is retroactive, meaning it applies to all patent applications and issued patents filed before, on or after February 13, 2024. 5] Stated otherwise, a natural person (e.g.,

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) acknowledges that AI could be used to modernize the crucial steps of clinical trial conduct-study design, planning, and execution. Patent filings at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) across the above-referenced life science and healthcare categories reflect a similar trend.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

IESEG school of management, Design protection in the fashion field. Letter from different countries , 8 Nov 2024 UCL IBIL seminar: Patent Law – Fit for an (emotional) AI age?: In other news, a new report has been published by the EPO looking at patent applications originating from universities. Deadline 15 Nov 2024.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 4, 2025

Data between 1971-1980, 2000, 2019-2025. Data between 1991-2000, 2009-2015 and 2018. And then using the US patent number or the patent title associated to cross-check if it has a pending patent application or patented in India as well (via Google Patents or IPO Search ). 9 existed at all.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The petitioner had registered the Rohit Wrapers trademark (adopted in the year 2000) and using its variant Rohit Tubes, Rohit Varadan, Rohit Gold and Rohit Durable trademarks for its business of PVC pipes. on 7 February, 2025 (Delhi HC) The rectification petition was filed by the petitioner seeking removal of the defendants trademark.

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