IP Spotlight

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Each year, IP Spotlight updates our readers who often ask: how long does it take for a patent or trademark registration to grant? The allowance rate for all utility, plant, and reissue applications that the USPTO disposed of in the past year was 59%. The fee is $4000 for a large entity, or $2000 for a small entity.)

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Editing Trademark Invention Patent 45

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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Trademark Patent Copyright Design 105

IP Tech Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

Therefore, the only way to protect a GUI with a design patent is by filing it as part of a design application whose main object is, for example, a mobile phone. Therefore, at the end of it, China still requires a physical product to be at the center of the design patent application.

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Design Patent Designs Design Patent 57

SpicyIP

MAY 6, 2024

Case Summaries Rich Products Corporation vs The Controller Of Patents & Anr. UPL Limited vs The Controller Of Patents Designs And Trademarks on 30 April, 2024 (Calcutta High Court) Image from here The present dispute is an appeal challenging the order of Joint Controller, dated July 31, 2023, refusing patent application of the appellant.

Trademark 59

Trademark Invention Licensing Patent 59

LexBlog IP

AUGUST 22, 2022

Therefore, the only way to protect a GUI with a design patent is by filing it as part of a design application whose main object is, for example, a mobile phone. Therefore, at the end of it, China still requires a physical product to be at the center of the design patent application.

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Design Patent Designs Design Patent 52

SpicyIP

JULY 22, 2023

National Internet Exchange India , where the court suggested using AI to prevent registration of identical and deceptively similar marks (page 6). Reform in Law However, while the patent application numbers are on the rise, the Industry has expressed concerns over the patent prosecution and examination regime in India.

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IP Intellectual Property Reporting Government 98

SpicyIP

APRIL 4, 2025

Significantly, cancer registration is not mandatory in India, meaning we dont have clear information on the number of cases that have reached a healthcare centre. Data between 1971-1980, 2000, 2019-2025. Data between 1991-2000, 2009-2015 and 2018. search journey shown below) Image 4. I could not figure out why S.No.

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Reporting Patent Patent Application IP 76

SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Interestingly, the defendants firm was founded by one of the employees of the plaintiffs firm, who had also filed an opposition to the trademark registration of BASANT by the plaintiff, but amicably settled later. The defendants allegedly used the trademark NEW BASANT and engaged in the same genre of business.

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Registering Trademarks Trademark Copyright Business 59