The IPKat

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

In many cases, manufacturing IP may be easy for any potential competitor, generic or biosimilar company to design around. It is challenging for generics and biosimilars to design around a drug substance patent, given that regulatory approvals are tied to the drug substance itself.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 9, 2022

Trademark, and design are two very crucial kinds of IPRs which provide a certain extent of protection at their levels. Trademark and design are two of the most important and popular IPRs which can sometimes be confused as the line between their differences may perhaps seem blurry.

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The IPKat

MARCH 7, 2023

by Giorgia Golzio and Daniele Golzio You might have come across The Simpsons’ episode “ Girls Just Want to Have Sums ”, in which Homer challenges the ability of women to invent. As Marge recalls, Bette Nesmith Graham (1929-1984) invented the first correction fluid in her kitchen in 1951: the so-called Liquid Paper.

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The IPKat

JULY 30, 2024

According to the USPTO guidance for AI-assisted inventions , AI has the potential to solve some of society's most difficult challenges. How then are AI-generated inventions to be protected? The USPTO's guiding principles for AI-assisted inventions The Federal Circuit in Thaler v. Vidal ( 43 F.4th 4th 1207, 1213 (Fed.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 27, 2023

Controller of Patents and Designs. Case: Biomoneta Research Vs Controller General of Patents Designs on 13 March 2023 (Delhi High Court) The matter pertained to an appeal against the order of the controller rejecting a patent application for ‘Air Decontamination Assembly’. Or are they adversarial in nature? ARG Outlier Media Pvt.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Levi Strauss And Co vs Dinesh Sharma on 26 September, 2024 (Delhi District Court) Image from here The plaintiff sought a permanent injunction against the defendant for infringing on its trademarks, including “LEVI’S,” the “Two Horse Logo,” and the “Arcuate Stitching Design.”

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Intepat

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Key Changes to Patent Amendment Process The Patent Amendment Rules, 2024, introduce several critical changes designed to improve the overall patent amendment process. Timely submission of documents is crucial for the efficient examination of patent applications and compliance with the new rules.

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SpicyIP

JULY 22, 2024

Assistant Controller Of Patents And Design accepting an appeal against the Controller’s decision rejecting a patent application for “aerosol generating article with multi material susceptor.” emphasising that the inventive step lies in the specific solution devised and not merely the general method or goal. Mills & Rockley and J.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JULY 25, 2023

During the meeting, Ragner showed documents detailing the manufacturing process of a collapsible hose and demonstrated a prototype of the hose. Accordingly, the district court did not commit error by holding that Ragner contributed his design elements to each one of the asserted patents.

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SpicyIP

MAY 10, 2023

Justice Singh further writes about the preferred appeals against the rejection orders wherein the Controller’s analysis on “inventive step” was not clear, and about the cases where re-grant oppositions were disposed of within an extremely short span of time. Deputy Controller of Patents and Designs , Auckland Uniservices Limited v.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently published examination guidance and a request for comments on the treatment of inventorship for inventions created with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions. Rather, the human must provide significant inventive contribution).

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Here, that “intrinsic record” is the patent document and the “Rule 12 record” is the complaint. In its amended complaint, the patentee alleged two “inventive concepts.” To be clear, I don’t know whether or not these features count as “inventive concepts” under Alice.

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Patently-O

MARCH 21, 2023

We are are now at a point where it is easy to see an AI tool creating inventive output. And, even if recognition of the invention is fundamental to the inventing process, the AI tools certainly provide sufficient contribution to be considered for joint inventorship. who invented or discovered the subject matter of the invention.”

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SpicyIP

JULY 31, 2023

C ase Summaries Delhi High Court reiterates that functional designs are not per se ineligible for registration and can be registered if they possess any aesthetic appeal Case : Ttk Prestige Ltd. vs Gupta Light House on 24 July, 2023 (Delhi High Court) Image from here The dispute pertained to imitation of suit design by the defendant.

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The IPKat

MARCH 13, 2025

The EPO generally permits functional definitions provided that a skilled person would have no difficulty in providing some means of performing this function without exercising inventive skill (EPO Guidelines for Examination, F.IV-2.1 The interpretation of "configured to" was relevant to the novelty analysis.

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Patently-O

AUGUST 30, 2021

On appeal though, the Federal Circuit flipped the verdict — holding that “ no reasonable jury could find the ’190 patent’s written description sufficiently demonstrates that the inventors possessed the full scope of the claimed invention.” 35 U.S.C. § ” Reversed. = = = =.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 7, 2022

A document titled “Priority Action Plan for Ensuring the Development of the Russian Economy in the Conditions of External Sanctions Pressure” lays out just some of the measures under consideration. The planning document can be found here and the translation here (both pdf).

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Intepat

JANUARY 17, 2023

A patent specification is a disclosure to the public at large regarding the invention as well as the scope of protection that would be granted to the invention. It provides an opportunity for the applicant to provide information regarding the invention in order to be entitled to claim protection. Provisional Specification.

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Patently-O

APRIL 30, 2024

Although documents are widely available today via our vast network of digital communications, there is also increasing junk in the system — documents making unsubstantiated claims that are effectively science fiction. That claim requires too much follow-on research work and so does not sufficiently disclose the invention.

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IP.com

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Invention Novelty Assessment: conduct a quantitative assessment of the novelty of an innovation against a corpus of global prior art to evaluate the feasibility of pursuing a patent. This helps in determining the novelty and non-obviousness of the invention. This will help in identifying the core aspects that need protection.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

Thus, a legal safeguard should be provided to inventors for their inventions to keep their interest in science alive. What are the biotechnological inventions? This leads them to think about protecting their inventions from unauthorized use. Patents provide protection to innovations as well as commercialization of inventions.

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IP and Legal Filings

AUGUST 8, 2024

This allows the others to gain knowledge of the others invention and develop in the future. The patentee has exclusive rights over their invention for a particular period of time, that is 20 years in India. This represent that the patentee has the power to control the uses, makes, imports or sells of their invention.

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Patently-O

JULY 13, 2021

Design Patent No. The reexamination examiner agreed with the challenge and issued a final rejection that the claimed design was anticipated by four different prior art references. First to Disclose : Two of the references were Chinese Design Registrations filed and published a couple of months before Zhang’s filing date.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

However, despite the global attention on the so-called "AI inventor" patent applications, we are no nearer to understanding how the AI ("DABUS") actually goes about the process of inventing, or even if it can be said to really invent at all. So DABUS can not only invent, but has feelings and sentience?

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 23, 2023

Delhi High Court sets aside the cryptic order passed by the Respondent, directs to consider the matter afresh Case: Alfred Von Schukmann vs The Controller General Of Patent, Designs and Trademarks and Ors. The Defendant argued that the suit design was published prior to the date of registration under a different trade name.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 24, 2022

In particular, in order to embody inventive character, a combination invention must not merely result in an aggregation of the features of the underlying components ( Case Law of the Boards of Appeal, I-D-9.2.1 ). The Board concluded that the design of the clinical trials in D2 implied the combined effect of LCM and LVT.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The Controller of Patents and Designs, India’s first AI Copyright litigation involving OpenAI, and the rejection of an RTI Application concerning IPRS’ compliance with the Copyright Act. The respondents argued that the invention was not patentable under Section 3(k) since it only incorporated a business method and a mathematical formula.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

202417006578 ( pdf ), by Vikas Verma, Assistant Controller of Patents & Designs, Patent Office (Chennai), in the context of a pre-grant opposition (PGO) against an application by Pharmazz Inc. The PGO was raised based on four prior art documents. Image from here. Recently, an interesting order was issued in Patent Application No.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Nhk Spring Co Ltd vs Controller Of Patents And Designs on 8 February, 2024 (Delhi HC) An Appeal was filed against the order of the Controller of Patents for rejecting the patent application titled ‘Suspension and compression cold spring for suspension” on the ground of lack of inventive step. The appeal was allowed.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 2, 2023

In October 2022, the White House published a document titled, “ Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, Making Automated Systems Work for the American People.” There are significant questions about the ability to patent inventions that were conceived with the assistance of AI. AI RMF 1.0 Open Source AI-based code generators (e.g.,

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Intellectual Property incorporates the makings of the thoughts such as the discoveries, literary and artistic works, design, symbols, names, and images used in the business. India’s worldwide network for startups is worth over 1,12,718 DPIIT documented startups which are across 763 Distracts.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 6, 2023

The court held that the appellant has not produced any documents in support of its claim regarding the impugned mark being a family mark and relying on Wander v. UK Supreme Court hears case by and American computer scientist for patent over inventions created by his AI system DABUS

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Design Patent No. D450,839 looks like a set of clown feet (image below), but, in actuality it covers “the ornamental design for a handle for introducer sheath” and is used as part of a medical catheter kit. Junker designed the handle with “large, rounded Mickey-Mouse-shaped ears” to make it easier to handle.

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IPilogue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Please send your answers in a Word document with your name in the file name to iposgoode@osgoode.yorku.ca. Originally created in 2014 as a midwest competition, the Competition is today a national inter-law school competition designed to introduce law students to issues arising in United States patent law.

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IPilogue

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Students interested in trying out for Osgoode’s PADC team must submit answers to our patent drafting skills exercise in a Word document with your name in the file name to iposgoode@osgoode.yorku.ca. Invention statements will be released to teams on November 1, 2021. Please note that only 2L and 3L students may participate.

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Kashishipr

JANUARY 27, 2022

A Non-Disclosure Agreement (abbreviated as NDA) is a legal document signed to safeguard the previously-mentioned sensitive information. IP in different forms like trademarks, copyright, patents, and industrial designs acts as a seal of distinctiveness, quality, and authority for every other company.

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Patently-O

JUNE 28, 2022

When the Patent Act of 1790 refers to inventors, it lists gender inclusive forms of “he, she, or they:” [The inventor(s) must] set[] forth, that he, she, or they , hath or have invented or discovered any useful art, manufacture, engine, machine, or device, or any improvement therein… Patent Act of 1790. LEGAL HIST.

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