IPilogue

JULY 29, 2022

While artists may inherently feel like they are “held hostage” by their record labels, it all comes down to the contract terms that both the artist and record label agreed upon. Common contract terms found in recording agreements include rights granted, producer royalties, and promotions.

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IPilogue

JUNE 23, 2022

This interesting case will likely become a battle over the terms of the contract with strong arguments on both sides. This term mirrors the contracts of most universities (like University of Toronto’s patent policy ) where professors are not the exclusive IP owners for independent work completed during employment.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Patents can help inventors gain protection and recognition for their innovations, but are often costly and can take years to issue to register. First proposed in 2013 , the UPC is an agreement among 24 countries to create a single expert patent court to assess patent filings from all contracting European states.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

MAY 27, 2021

Inventors, Physicists and Entrepreneurs: Commerce Home to Diverse-Range of AANHPI Pioneers. Inventors, Physicists and Entrepreneurs: Commerce Home to Diverse-Range of AANHPI Pioneers. LEADING INVENTOR IN ACCESSIBILITY TECHNOLOGY CHIEKO ASAKAWA. Leading Inventor in Accessibility Technology Chieko Asakawa More details.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

However, the cost of obtaining and maintaining patents may be a barrier for individual inventors and small businesses to benefit from the advantage or enter certain markets. In some industries, patents may even be essentially required to enter the market and compete successfully. A small entity is defined under 37 CFR § 1.27

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 24, 2022

Counsel from jurisdictions where payments to employee-inventors only arise from contracts or employee incentive programs are sometimes surprised when they first become involved with jurisdictions that have statutory payment schemes for employee-inventors.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 2, 2021

The district court sided with Omni — finding that Omni had received rights from the inventor, and that Islam had not assigned his rights to UM. Lets look at the contract. On appeal, the Federal Circuit has affirmed. employment. employment.

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IPilogue

JANUARY 26, 2022

I also updated a “Document Log” for the legal team, which is a record of contracts that have IP-related provisions. All Capstone group members are co-inventors with title to the Capstone IP.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Federal Contracting; Contractor Disclosure Requirements to Funding Agencies and Funding Agency March-in Rights. Additionally, under this statute, there is a preference for small businesses and nonprofits when awarding contracts. Bayh-Dole seeks to prioritize small businesses that are not yet dominant in their field of operation.

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Patently-O

JULY 7, 2021

Bio-Rad now argues that it has partial ownership rights to the inventions based upon the inventor’s contributions while employees. Precedent does not impose a temporal restriction on when a person can become a co-inventor. See, e.g., AT&T v. Integrated Network Corp. , 2d 1321 (Fed. Vanderbilt Univ. ICOS Corp. , 3d 1297 (Fed.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The European Patent Office (EPO) has recently released the outcomes of its new study named “ Women’s participation in inventive activity ”, which aims at better understanding the presence of women inventors across different countries, time periods, technology fields and applicant types. of inventors in Europe are women.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Article 118 EPC states that, where the applicants for a European patent are not the same for different contracting states of the EPO, they shall be regarded as joint applicants and that unity of the application will thus not be affected. P1 was filed in the name of 3 inventor-applicants, A1, A2 and A3.

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Intepat

MARCH 13, 2025

Since space objects or personnel are subject to the jurisdiction of their country of origin, the intellectual property created by these space objects or personnel can also be governed by the same national IP frameworks as their author or creator or inventor.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 22, 2024

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Tuesday, May 21, issued a precedential decision vacating and remanding a district court’s finding that Core Optical Technologies didn’t have standing to sue Nokia due to the language of a contract between the inventor and his employer. Judge Mayer dissented. 6,782,211 by Nokia Corp.,

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SpicyIP

JULY 2, 2021

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded LexisNexis Reed Tech a 10-year patent data and document management contract. The continued demand for patents and trademarks underscores the ingenuity of American inventors and entrepreneurs. The strength and vitality of the U.S.

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Patently-O

APRIL 10, 2024

By Dennis Crouch In a recent unpublished decision, the Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment in favor of CPA Global Support Services, LLC (“CPA”) (now part of Clarivate) against a claim of negligent misrepresentation brought by inventor James C. The contract should not disclaim third-party liability.

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IIPRD

MARCH 13, 2025

It grants exclusive rights to the inventors and prevents others from selling, using or making it without their permission. Patents Patent protects new inventions that features technological advancements or economic significance or both and are capable of being used in the industry. How to Choose the Right IPR for Your Work?

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

The Court, however, held that Densy stated sufficient facts to establish the existence of an implied-in-fact contract between the parties. There the Court quoted Justice Traynor’s dissenting opinion in Stanley : The policy that precludes protection of an abstract idea by copyright does not prevent its protection by contract.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

First, held the Board, a machine cannot enter into any binding legal contract. In addition, the preamble to the DSM Directive specifies that the authors and performers that shall be able to rely on the provisions on contracts therein shall only be natural persons, thus excluding from the scope of application non-human authors and performers.

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Patently-O

MAY 2, 2022

2022) focuses on the classic patent law question of whether the inventor’s pre-filing sales activity serve to bar the patent from issuing. The Facts : On February 7, 2000 , the inventor’s company (MCE) offered to sell and install a butane-blending system to Equilon. by Dennis Crouch. Venture (Fed. ” Pfaff v.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

An inventor has accused Deloitte Consulting LLP in New York federal court of stealing her proprietary vaccination management system and securing a multimillion-dollar government contract for rolling out COVID-19 vaccines, saying the firm colluded with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to pilfer the technology.

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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.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Option 3: adopt an exception for any use, with a possibility for rightholders to contract out. Option 4: adopt an exception for any use, with no possibility for rightholders to contract out. Consequently, patents do not protect inventions if the inventor is an AI system – a point recently confirmed also by the UK Court of Appeal.

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IPilogue

JULY 9, 2021

Many contracts assigning IP have detailed provisions dealing with the incidents of the assignment. Other contracts are brief, but all are written against the background of default rules such as those on estoppel. v Adkins 395 US 693 (1969), would carry over to patent assignments. . For example, in the U.K. , 7] Minerva, ibid at 15. [8]

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 16, 2021

It is important to understand the ownership or possession of IP in case of any such contract with a third party. If there is any contract with the third party for the development of any IP, the parties must be clear with the terms. Owing of intellectual property is not automatic until and unless any agreement specifies so.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Since blockchain plays a pivotal role in the crypto market, several inventors have attempted to legally protect the various components of blockchain technology using patents. Smart contracts are contracts that are used to regulate NFT transactions. Interestingly enough, copyrights play a pivotal role in the NFT market.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 22, 2022

However, the Supreme Court sided with Appleton, concluding that the keys to the invention came-about after North’s contract had ended. Fisk, Removing the “Fuel of Interest’ from the “Fire of Genius’: Law and the Employee-Inventor, 1830-1930 , 65 U. ”).

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

Representation of Female Inventors on Patent Teams Jordi Goodman Equity would be achieved in 2092 if current trends continue. Banjo/fiddle crossover, history of interracial playing, “Black hillbillies” who couldn’t get record contracts.] In 2015, 29% of patent applications name at least one woman inventor—up from 17% in 1997.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

APRIL 25, 2023

We have some exciting events planned this week — both in-person and virtual — to uplift the women inventors, creators, and entrepreneurs who do ground-breaking work every day. Getting everyone off the bench to fully participate in innovation is not only a national imperative, but an international one. All are welcome!

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 30, 2023

However, the cost of obtaining and maintaining patents may be a barrier for individual inventors and small businesses to benefit from the advantage or enter certain markets. In some industries, patents may even be essentially required to enter the market and compete successfully. A small entity is defined under 37 CFR § 1.27

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Patently-O

JANUARY 19, 2024

While most of patents are attributable to both joint-inventors, some are only attributable to one or the other. The decision is lacking though because the court does not ground its decision in any particular contract or property tradition. ” Brian Barnett. hereby sell[s] and assign[s] to Universal Electronics Inc. 3d 1284 (Fed.

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Patently-O

JULY 22, 2022

However, the pair had not fully exited from their Sleep Number contract. One complicating issue is that the patent applications list three other inventors who were (apparently) not subject to the agreements with Sleep Number. Rather, they had both signed consulting agreements with Sleep Number that included quite a broad scope.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 16, 2023

There has been a lot of excitement about whether an AI can be formally designated as an inventor. Copyright GuestKat Jonathan Coote explained the recent copyright infringement and breach of contract litigation relating to the popular remixes of Dua Lipa's song 'Levitating'.

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Sander Law

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Although many companies have employment contracts that. indicate IP created by employees is owned by the employer, it is always a good idea to use IP Assignments to assign rights to important IP from the employee creator/inventor to the company. For example, when your business restructures (e.g. Employees & IP Ownership.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 18, 2023

The owner gets an exclusive right to use or sell for a specific time period as a legal right under the document which we refer throughout this paper as ‘patent’ The patent system is designed to encourage innovation by protecting the rights of inventors to their inventions. 3] In the case of V.B. Mohammaed Ibrahim v.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

NOAA also provides a small business hub , with the goal of creating an environment for optimal participation by small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, HUBZone, Veteran Owned SB and SDVOSB, and woman-owned businesses in NOAA contract awards.

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The IPKat

JULY 19, 2022

incentives for creativity, innovation motives and behaviour, inventor characteristics and personality). entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurship education, entrepreneurial teams), and behavioral foundations (e.g.,

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