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A table and a table coaster that shaped EU design law

The IPKat

In this ruling, which originated from a design invalidity claim before the EUIPO (OHIM, as it was known then), the Court of Justice construed the meaning of the ‘informed user’. Under EU design law, the ‘informed user’ is the standard on the basis of which it examines both the validity and the infringement of a design.

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Supreme Court on Patent Law: November 2023

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch The Supreme Court is set to consider several significant patent law petitions addressing a range of issues from the application of obviousness standards, challenges to PTAB procedures, interpretation of joinder time limits IPR, to the proper scope patent eligibility doctrine. Orlando Ventura , 537 U.S.

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Can AI Technology Create a Patent in Canada? A Look at Global Precedence

IPilogue

However, this 2002 decision did not define whether AI technology can be an inventor. But such a non-human inventor can neither be an applicant for a patent nor a grantee of a patent.” United Kingdom: Thaler v The Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2020] EWHC 2412 (Pat).

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Human Intervention vs. Essentially Biological Processes: The Patentability Debate in Sakata Seed Corporation Case

SpicyIP

The Controller of Patents and Designs, Kartikeya Srivastava, discusses interpretation of biological processes under Section 3(j). Kartikeya is a second-year law student of the LL.B. He is currently engaged in WIPO-Harvard Law School Course in Patent Law and Global Public Health. course at NLSIU Bangalore.

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Competition Law: The Patent Pendulum

Intepat

Interface of Competition Law and Patents Patent law particularly bears more relevance to antitrust jurisprudence. Patent law operates on two principles i.e. to encourage innovation and to promote the progress of science and technology. The Supreme Court in Eldred v. An example of this is the case of FTC v.

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On Sale Bar – Sales require Consideration, not necessarily Money Payment

Patently-O

2022) focuses on the classic patent law question of whether the inventor’s pre-filing sales activity serve to bar the patent from issuing. Application of the on sale bar is a question of law as is the underlying issue of whether the experimental use exception applies. 2002) (offer to make a “remote database object.

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Navigating the Global Intellectual Property Landscape: Key Treaties and Agreements

IIPRD

‘The Paris Convention’, adopted in March 1883 and revised in the years 1900, 1911, 1925, 1934, 1958, 1967, and 1979, comprehensively addresses “patents, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks, service marks, trade names, and geographical indications”. [1] 8 (1994): 2621–29. [8] 9] “WIPO Copyright Treaty, Dec. 20, 1996, S.