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A Seller’s Guide to Navigating Intellectual Property Law on Amazon

LexBlog IP

A basic understanding of Intellectual Property (IP) law is essential to managing an Amazon storefront, as IP issues can be a minefield for the uninformed. Patents A patent permits the owner to exclude others from making, using, offering to sell, selling, or importing the invention of the patent.

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Protecting Application Programming Interfaces (API) Through Intellectual Property Laws

Kashishipr

Therefore, most of the APIs are not patentable since they comprise the declaring code and the SSO, which is essentially a source code in a written format having no functionality as such unless implemented through the implementing code. It has no shape or structure as such. It is what was laid in the case of Alice Corp.

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IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2023 winners announced!

The IPKat

Here are the nominees and winners: Best Patent Law Book The nominations, in no particular order, were: • Der patentrechtliche Schutz von Daten und seine Grenzen; Landscheidt, by Fabian Landscheidt. Patent Portfolio Management, A Practical Guide, by Ho Frattasi. The Proportionality Test in European Patent Law, by Léon Dijkman. •

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Book Review: Intellectual Property and the Design of Nature

The IPKat

As a plant intellectual property nerd , this Kat was delighted to get her hands on the new book Intellectual Property and the Design of Nature (Oxford University Press, 2023), edited by Jose Bellido and Brad Sherman. The other two chapters turn to the conceptualisation of nature in patent law.

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Wednesday Whimsies

The IPKat

Have you packed your SPF 70-guaranteed IP books? With summer in full swing in the Northern hemisphere, it might perhaps feel natural to long for things other than IP, but there is plenty of IP-related activity happening before and right after the hot months. For further information and to register, click here.

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ERA IP-focused events and courses return with 25% discount for IPKat readers

The IPKat

Trier, Germany The Katfriends at the Academy of European Law (ERA) in beautiful Trier (Germany) are always busy organizing and running IP courses. After successfully passing online and oral examinations, the participating patent attorneys will be awarded a certificate.

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Discussing Stern’s “Myth of Nonrivalry” for Patent Law

Patently-O

The rivalrous nature of real and personal property has justified property regimes, but for IP we have always needed additional justification and additional limits because propertization creates artificial scarcity. But Stern’s new article bucks the conventional wisdom and instead argues that the nonrivalry of IP is a myth.