LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In a world where non-compete agreements are being curtailed or outright banned, companies need to enhance their use of other ways to protect their intellectual property and confidential information when their employees leave to go work for competitors. developed during the term of employment.

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

On September 15, 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a law that made dramatic changes to the enforceability of invention assignment provisions in employment agreements and likely in related agreements including offer letters and Confidentiality, Information and Invention Assignment Agreements (CIIAAs).

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JD Supra Law

AUGUST 7, 2024

July 31, 2024) In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit held that the private but non-confidential sale of thousands of laptop ports did not count as a “public disclosure” of the inventions embodied therein. Kaijet Technology International Limited Inc., 2023-1336 (Fed. By: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

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Patent Trademark Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

If you have a simple product that others can easily copy, you wouldn’t be thinking about keeping anything confidential. In order to gain certain exclusive rights from the government, inventors must disclose detailed information on how to make and use their invention. Let’s face it. Keep it secret or file a patent ?

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

A quick glance at last week – Madras HC accepts a US District Court’s Letter Rogatory to furnish confidential information, a look at Functional Fallacies in Thomson Reuters vs Ross Intelligence and many more. We also have the initiation of our attempt to bring IP conversations to wider audiences through multilingual writing!

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IP Law 360

JUNE 17, 2024

Tesla accused one of its suppliers of corporate espionage in a $1 billion California federal lawsuit, saying that Matthews International has even tried to claim it invented the stolen trade secrets for manufacturing electric vehicle batteries by incorporating the confidential information into patent filings.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2022

A trade secret protects a business’s confidential and proprietary information. A patent protects an invention. The invention can be an article of manufacture, a machine, a process (such as software), or a composition of matter (like a chemical formula). The invention must meet several requirements in order to be patentable.

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Kashishipr

JANUARY 27, 2022

In legal terms, it is a contract signed amongst at least two parties looking forward to detailing confidential knowledge, clauses, statements, or any information they wish to restrict from access by third parties. Understanding the Relevance of an NDA. Therefore, many companies are way too vigilant about protecting their IP assets.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Softgel: The Errors of Comity The Madras High Court accepted a Letter Rogatory from The US District Court in Delaware directing India-based Softgel Healthcare to furnish confidential information to the US Court. The defendants argued that the plaintiffs were engaging in a fishing and roving inquiry into confidential business information.

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Kashishipr

APRIL 20, 2022

In simple terms, trade secrets are Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) granted on confidential or sensitive info, which may be licensed or sold. Generally, any confidential piece of business info that provides a competitive edge to a company or firm and isn’t known to others may be safeguarded as a trade secret.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

A patent protects an invention. For example, if you invent a new kind of vacuum cleaner, you would apply for a patent to protect the invention itself.” And with patents, the only protection arises when the USPTO issues a patent on an invention. First, it is important to understand what a trade secret is.

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IIPRD

MARCH 13, 2025

All the creations of the human minds such as designs, inventions, artistic works, names, symbols, etc. Patents Patent protects new inventions that features technological advancements or economic significance or both and are capable of being used in the industry. Key Features: The invention must be new, non-obvious, and have utility.

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Trading Secrets

APRIL 18, 2023

In our AI-driven world, we might rephrase it as: If we share our secrets with an AI language model like ChatGPT, but the information remains unused, does it count as trade secret disclosure or public disclosure of an invention? Spoiler alert: sharing invention details with ChatGPT does not count as public use or on sale. enablement).

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 18, 2023

In our AI-driven world, we might rephrase it as: If we share our secrets with an AI language model like ChatGPT, but the information remains unused, does it count as trade secret disclosure or public disclosure of an invention? Spoiler alert: sharing invention details with ChatGPT does not count as public use or on sale. enablement).

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Navigators Logistics Ltd vs Kashif Qureshi & Ors on 20 November 2024 (Delhi HC) This case stressed the need for factual scrutiny regarding the misappropriation of confidential information and trade secrets. The Court held that in the case of a medicine that claims to cure a disease, the test of efficacy can only be therapeutic efficacy.

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SpicyIP

JULY 9, 2021

During this time, the creator has the right to prevent others from using the invention. That is the patent trade-off: in exchange for releasing enough information for others to use the innovation after the patent expires, the inventor receives a 20-year limited monopoly on the invention. In the case of F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 18, 2023

In our AI-driven world, we might rephrase it as: If we share our secrets with an AI language model like ChatGPT, but the information remains unused, does it count as trade secret disclosure or public disclosure of an invention? Spoiler alert: sharing invention details with ChatGPT does not count as public use or on sale. enablement).

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IP.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Companies now use generative AI tools to streamline innovation, expedite the patenting process, and generate unique ideas while ensuring the confidentiality of valuable IP assets. This is where platforms like IQ Ideas+ excel, providing a secure, closed ecosystem where data remains confidential and entirely within the organization’s control.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 11, 2022

The confidential information which is generally not protectable tends to get protection as a trade secret which is specially drafted through a contract in companies. Those details must be sufficient for a person who is skilled in the relevant technology to make use of the invention. Seventh Circuit ruling in a recent case.

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IP.com

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Powered by IP.com’s proprietary Semantic Gist, CompassAI has a deep understanding of technical language, enabling it to identify inventive similarities or existing solutions at an individual level. Unlike other tools, Compass AI operates in a closed, secure environment that prioritizes data confidentiality.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 13, 2021

The 1836 Patent Act added the caveat that no patent should issue on an invention previously “described in any printed publication.” ” That language has carried through the various major patent law overhauls and continues as a prominent aspect of 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1). Centripetal Networks, Inc. 869, 877 (Fed.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 18, 2022

At that time, Kruse was facing allegations that he had committed plagiarism, first in his 2000 dissertation at Cornell University and later in his 2015 book One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. The allegations came from Philip Magness , a conservative academic and a long-time critic of Kruse and his work.

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Intepat

MAY 24, 2023

Following are the types of Assignments: Assignment of Patents Assignment of Trademarks Assignment of Designs Assignment of Copyrights Assignment of confidential know-how Assignment of Geographical Indications Sometimes, a certain level of ambiguity arises between the concepts of licensing and assignment.

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Garrigues Blog

JUNE 22, 2021

of the PL provides as follows: “Applications for inventions made in Spain for which priority has not been claimed from an earlier application in Spain, may not be filed in any foreign country before the time periods envisaged in article 111.1 What is an invention made in Spain? In this regard, article 115.1 of the LP). Article 115.3

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The IP Law Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Attendees had no confidentiality obligations and “were not provided any gene or breeding information.” While the Federal Circuit has often considered what constitutes an invention being “accessible to the public,” they have only considered it once before in the context of plants. But in that prior case, Delano Farms Co.

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Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 14, 2022

No, our firm does not sign confidentiality agreements for these reasons. We’ve filed so many patent applications that we really do not need to know all the nitty gritty details of your invention in order to answer most of your questions. Can we tell you if your invention is patentable? Not exactly.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 30, 2024

As reported , Monish Gujral, the managing director at Moti Mahal says “ You cannot take away somebody’s legacy … The dish was invented when our grandfather was in Pakistan.” or the exclusive rights over a recipe – breach of confidentiality?; This claim has raised the hackles of the Gujrals.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 10, 2023

Do You Need Multiple Patents for a Single, Multi-Use Invention? If your invention has multiple innovations or components, you may be wondering whether to file separate patent applications for each innovation or file one application for the entire invention. Does the single invention have different uses?

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Kashishipr

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Where it is a public sector entity, like a government initiative or a university, there is often the pressure of publishing and disseminating information at the earliest; whereas the private sector is usually free of such challenges, and major consideration is laid on the nature and value of the researched object or invention.

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SpicyIP

JULY 5, 2021

It noted that “ despite relevant University Ordinances stipulating access …, the prerogative lies with the University to withhold one such thesis in absolute confidentiality on the grounds of commercial viability and market competition. ”. 12 ) or anywhere else, because granting of patents necessarily includes publication of invention.

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The IPKat

MAY 15, 2023

The Opponent argued that the claimed invention lacked novelty in view of the prior use of the GensuPen ( Article 54(2) EPC ). The Patentee argued that the GensuPen had only been given out as part of a trial under conditions of confidentiality ( Cf. The question before the Board of Appeal was whether the OD had erred in this finding.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

And when an invention is in use by a member of the public (rather than the inventor), it is blackletter law that the use can be “public use” even if it takes place entirely in secret, behind closed doors. In addition, it is also blackletter law that the use need not enable the invention to constitute prior art.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Another source of confusion is the divergent approaches of the UK courts and the EPO with respect to the test for the evidence standard in sufficiency and inventive step analysis. Plausibility demystified - a review of EPO case law before G 2/21 G 2/21: Is the technical effect embodied by the invention as originally disclosed?

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Garrigues Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In general, when preparing an opposition against a European patent, substantial effort should be made to locate the relevant state of the art, in order to be able to provide solid evidence of the lack of novelty and/or inventive step of the patent that has been granted. However, this is not an easy task. the patented products or processes.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 4, 2021

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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SpicyIP

MARCH 20, 2023

1 rejecting the patent application of the appellant on the grounds mentioned under Section 3(d) and lack of inventive step under Section 2(1) (ja). 1 acknowledged that its invention was novel, the bar under Section 3(d) does not apply. The appellant argued that since the respondent no. Case: Mohan Meakin Limited vs.

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Trading Secrets

MARCH 15, 2024

The Core Issue at Hand This case centers around the America Invents Act (AIA) and whether a product’s prior sale by the patent applicant can disqualify the patenting of the method used to produce said product. Opting to keep this process confidential, Celanese sold Ace-K for several years.

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