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Draft Patent Amendment Rules – Increasing Efficiency of Granting Patent Monopolies While Forgetting the Reason for Allowing Them in the First Place

SpicyIP

Almost two years after the 2021 amendments to the Patent Rules 2003, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry has proposed a fresh set of amendments which, if accepted, can change the Indian Patent landscape substantially. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow. Varsha is a 5th year law student pursuing B.

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Understanding The Patent Specification Of An Invention

Intepat

It is a crucial techno-legal document constituted by scientific and technical disclosures which designate the basis of the rights of a patent. Section 7(4) of the Patents Act, 1970 ( the Act) directs that every patent application shall be accompanied by a provisional or a complete specification.

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Artificial intelligence and intellectual property rights: the USPTO DABUS decision

Barry Sookman

”‘ The petitioner also advanced policy considerations to support the position that a patent application can name a machine as an inventor. ” See Design Data Corp, 847 F.3d SODRAC 2003 Inc., Unigate Enter., 3d 1169, 1173 (9th Cir. 2017) (quoting Torah Soft Ltd. Drosnin, 136 F. 2d 276, 283 (S.D.N.Y.