IIPRD

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In this sector, intellectual property (IP) regulations are essential for defending the rights of inventors, artists, and producers. A thorough awareness of intellectual property laws is crucial, regardless of your career goals—be they that of a fashion designer, singer, filmmaker, or just someone curious about the legal side of entertainment.

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Patently-O

MAY 22, 2024

by Dennis Crouch In a recent decision, the Federal Circuit vacated a district court’s grant of summary judgment that an inventor, Dr. Mark Core, had automatically assigned a patent associated with his PhD thesis to his then-employer and education funder TRW. Core Optical Techs., Nokia Corp. , 23-1001 (Fed. May 21, 2024).

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

A patent is an exclusive right granted to the owner of an invention, that allows him to prevent others from making, using, or selling the invention without the consent of the owner. The patent law in India is governed by The Patent Act, 1999 (hereinafter referred to as the Act). A patent is territorial in nature.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It can aid in the verification of the original creators and inventors of a particular work or invention. The ‘Smart Contract System’ is another solution to IP management and other IP Transactions. Smart Contract System’ is a blockchain solution that offers a method of holding, executing, and monitoring contractual codes.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Patentability: It should not fall into the category of exceptions or subjects that are not patentable as per the relevant patent laws. The Ownership Dilemma In the realm of patents, it’s essential to differentiate between the inventor and the applicant, holder, or owner of the patent.

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Patently-O

MARCH 26, 2024

I thought I would write a more complete discussion of this important historic patent case. Atlantic Works has had a profound impact on the development of patent law, particularly in shaping the doctrine of obviousness, but more generally providing theoretical frameworks for attacking “bad patents.”

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 27, 2023

Instead, OpenAI treats the matter as one of ownership via contract law. No, according to various patent offices and patent laws around the world. See also PatentNext’s article Can an Artificial Intelligence (AI) be an Inventor? Patent law requires at least one human inventor.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 12, 2023

Such inventions may be protectable under federal patent laws. An inventor must secure a patent application within a very short period of time to prevent the work from falling into the public domain.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Collateral between the investor and the creative economy actor can be in the form of: Fiduciary guarantee of intellectual property; A contract for creative economic activities; and/or. The valuation of the IP that is used as collateral must be done using the following approach: Cost approach; Market approach; Revenue approach: and/or.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

JANUARY 3, 2023

Sara’s IP litigation experience includes both patent litigation and trade secret misappropriation litigation, which often also include various associated breach of contract and business torts. from the University of Georgia School of Law and was the senior notes editor of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law.

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The IPKat

JULY 11, 2022

The EPO Board of Appeal has published its full decision on the question of whether a machine can be an inventor ( J 8/20 ). The Board of Appeal had previously announced its decision to refuse two European patent applications naming an algorithm ("DABUS") as the sole inventor at the end of last year ( IPKat ).

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Intepat

JUNE 14, 2024

Opting for Patent protection often requires disclosing key aspects of the invention, which can be used by competitors. Therefore, in a situation where both protection and disclosure become important, inventors and companies must find a way to safeguard their inventions and crucial information.

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Intepat

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Patents , as a vital form of intellectual property (IP), safeguard these innovations, providing inventors and businesses exclusive rights to their inventions while promoting the dissemination of knowledge. Companies and inventors are prioritizing green technologies, aiming to reduce carbon footprints and promote eco-friendly practices.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 30, 2021

Ryan Abbot in putting man and machine on an equal footing when it comes to inventorship under international patent law regimes, in light of recent decisions on the issue by courts in Australia and South Africa. Thus, she notes that regular training for judges on the technical subject matters is crucial. August 26, 2021].

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SpicyIP

MARCH 7, 2025

While filing for a patent application, as pointed out earlier, the applicant files Form 1 , in which the details of the true and first inventor/s are provided. In the case of an assignee, a declaration from the inventor/s is provided. Further, Section 6 itself states, any person claiming to be the true and first inventor.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 7, 2025

Wrongful obtainment is an unexplored area of Patent law when compared to other, fancier and more contested topics, such as Inventive step or Subject matter exclusion. As per this section, any person claiming to be the true and first inventor/s can file an application for a Patent.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The decision clarifies the purpose of the two processes and is a must read for all patent law enthusiasts. Significantly, that opposition and examination run on different tracks and they do not merge at any point, thus disagreeing with the impugned single judge order where the Court had opined that the processes converge after a point.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The key advantage, as claimed by the inventors over other live-attenuated vaccines, is that by supressing the specific genes that were the cause of the bacterias virulence, they were able to create a vaccine candidate which exhibited improved vaccine safety in the subject to be immunised and in the environment.

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