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Patent Suits Drop 33% from 2013; 2021 Damages Awards are More Than $1 Billion less than 2012

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Despite the high economic relevance of innovation and explosive invention growth reflected in the number of patents issued annually by the United States Patent and Trademark Continue reading.

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A Closer Look at the Patent Stats from WIPO’s 2024 IP Indicator

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Image from here Recently, WIPO published its 2024 IP Indicator , capturing the trends in the global IP filing and their administration. This incidentally marked the fastest growth rate since 2012. The 2024 Indicator focuses on the developments from 2023 and compares it with the figures from 2022. million applications, (i.e.

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Navigating the Patent Maze: Challenges and Controversies in Emerging Technologies

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Many courts tried to determine whether a software invention is abstract by devising several tests to determine whether any invention related to computers might be patentable. In the instant case the term inventive step was stretched over the economic value of the inventive. In Bishwanath Prasad Radhey Shyam v.

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

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Shamnad won the second prize in that competition for his essay titled ‘Artificial Invention: Mind the Machine’. We encourage participants to take inspiration from Shamnad’s work , which has challenged the orthodoxy of conventional IP wisdom by looking at the subject through the lens of the global south and its development needs.

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Limited Licensing: An introductory overview

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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. The IP Owner and the third party are the licensor and the licensee respectively. Limited licenses also have fewer risks than outright purchases of IP.

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Artificial Intelligence and IP: A Literature Review

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While there are a number of aspects covered by “Artificial Intelligence”, ranging from definitions to scope, from life-saving to life-threatening, there has been surprisingly limited public policy discussion on the intersection of AI and IP in India. Her area of interest lies in IP and corporate law. Arul Scaria).

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Amplifying Black Female Innovators: Engineer Marian Croak and Dr. Patricia Bath

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Her invention, laserphaco , a minimally invasive, low-risk cataract removal procedure, is still used today. In 2012, she penned an open letter titled Dear Young Women in Technology, Welcome From a 30-year Veteran in the Huffington Post that discussed gender identity in a male-dominated field.

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