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Limited Licensing: An introductory overview

IP and Legal Filings

It serves the purpose of having Intellectual Property Rights in existence that is to give legal rights for the protection of the invention and creation. Hence, it is necessary to obtain permission from the owner of the Intellectual Property of that creation or invention.

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New PatentlyO L.J. Article: The AIA at Ten – How Much Do the Pre-AIA Prior Art Rules Still Matter?

Patently-O

As the America Invents Act (AIA) turns 10, patent students across the country may be asking: if the law is already a decade old, why am I spending so much time learning pre-AIA law? Stoll, Maintaining Post-Grant Review Estoppel in the America Invents Act: A Call for Legislative Restraint , 2012 Patently-O Patent Law Journal 1 ( Stoll.2012.estoppel.pdf

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Can a website be patented?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

In some case, however, if the functioning of the website involved complex processes and an inventive step, it might be protected through patents too. the requirements for patentability are- Novelty, inventive step, industrial application. The earlier granted patents of Facebook include the ‘news feed’ in 2012.

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A Spotlight on TKDL Once More: Oppose, Only To Abandon?

SpicyIP

and European patent attorney who maintains a blog by the same name), in this SpicyIP Guest post from 2012 shows that a closer examination of TKDL’s contribution as a third-party observation at the EPO suggests its impact in preventing patents for traditional knowledge to be overstated.

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New PatentlyO L.J. Article: The AIA at Ten – How Much Do the Pre-AIA Prior Art Rules Still Matter?

Patently-O

As the America Invents Act (AIA) turns 10, patent students across the country may be asking: if the law is already a decade old, why am I spending so much time learning pre-AIA law? Stoll, Maintaining Post-Grant Review Estoppel in the America Invents Act: A Call for Legislative Restraint , 2012 Patently-O Patent Law Journal 1 ( Stoll.2012.estoppel.pdf

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Secrets in the Pitlanes : Navigating IPR In Formula 1

IIPRD

Formula One can be perceived as an epicentre of inventions and innovations, making intellectual property indispensable in the sport. The Confidential information, which may be sold or licensed, is a Trade Secret and forms a part of Intellectual Property Rights. WHAT DO INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS SAY? 39 of the TRIPS agreement.

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Third-party preissuance submissions

Larson & Larson

On September 16, 2011, President Obama signed the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (“AIA”). Effective September 16, 2012, a third-party may submit prior art to the Patent Office. Among the changes created by the AIA, a new system was put into place for the submission of prior art to the Patent Office prior to patent issuance.

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