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Defending Design Patents

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In our new paper, The Truth About Design Patents , we debunk three widely held—but incorrect—views about U.S. design patents. Taken together, these myths paint a grim picture of design patents: Half of all design patent applications are rejected. Acquiring Design Patents.

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Announcing the 3rd Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law

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Two values that guided Shamnad through the course of his academic writing, were the need for transparency and democratic participation, during the process of making the law and implementation. Ragavan’s scholarship emphasizes issues intersecting international trade law with intellectual property rights. Calboli, Cambridge Univ.

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Australia and NZ: ‘Reasonable Efforts’ to Join the Hague Agreement on Industrial Designs Mean Nothing

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Each document states that Australia/NZ will make all reasonable efforts to join the UK as members of the Hague Agreement, which provides an international registration system for industrial designs. agreed to join the Hague Agreement on Industrial Designs’ This is not true. Article 17.1(5) Read more »

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Online Course for Patent Agent Exam Preparation [February 5]

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Apart from this, I will separately send out a drafting template for specification, and a complete patent prosecution file to the registrants on their email address. I have also recently published a book on Patent Law and Practice that is useful for exam takers. The book is available on Amazon and Flipkart.

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Aseptic Patent Law: Which Side of Literal do you Favor?

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Doctrine of Equivalents The doctrine of equivalents allows a patentee to establish infringement, even when an accused product or process does not literally fall within the claims of the patent, if the accused product or process contains only insubstantial differences from the patent claims. See, Deere & Co. Bush Hog, LLC , 703 F.3d

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A Typical Eligibility Case in 2023

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If yes, ask whether the claimed invention includes something more, such as an inventive concept that transforms the abstract idea into a patent eligible invention. 66 (2012); Alice Corp. Since 2012, almost 2,000 court decisions have referenced these cases along with 8,000+ PTAB decisions. Prometheus , 566 U.S. 208 (2014).

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The IPKat team: arrivals, farewells, and news

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Anna Maria deals with issues relating to trade marks, patents, designs, trade secrets, copyright and antitrust – both in and out of the courts. In recent years, Anna Maria has been selected for European Commission programmes to support SMEs and young Designers on IP, innovation, and digitalisation.

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