IP Watchdog

AUGUST 28, 2023

This week in Washington IP news, as a new school year begins, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) looks at the latest research on invention education. federal government can do to patent rights during a public health emergency. federal government can do to patent rights during a public health emergency.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This week in Washington IP news, the House Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, And Commerce holds a hearing on promoting innovation and protecting data privacy, and the Senate Judiciary Committee holds a meeting about a handful of judicial appointments.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The much discussed, but previously unreleased, Restoring America Invents Act has finally been made public. The bill was submitted by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) in what he described late last week as an attempt to reverse the reforms of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) made by former USPTO Director Andrei Iancu.

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JD Supra Law

JULY 6, 2022

The UK Government on 28 June 2022 published its response to its Consultation on Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and Intellectual Property (“IP”). By: Locke Lord LLP

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2023

On 30 November 2023, the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding (CIPU) published the findings of a survey on “Intellectual Property Principle – What the IP Community regards as important” ( executive summary and slides ). The survey was conducted by response:AI, an independent market research firm.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Kat friend Iana Kazeeva provides an enlightening discussion on steps taken by the Russian government and courts with respect to IP following the invasion of Ukraine. The common denominator is the use of changes to the IP law as a political instrument towards states taking “unfriendly” actions against Russia.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 12, 2025

The invalidation rate of patents in America Invents Act (AIA) proceedings, particularly inter partes reviews (IPRs), has been extremely high since the inception of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Currently, a patent reaching a final written decision in an IPR will on average have 78% of its claims found invalid.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2023

That statement argued that Moderna should be released from infringement liability under the terms of a government contract that “authorize[d] and consent[ed] to all use and manufacture” of any U.S. patented invention. 1498, the statute governing remedies for patent infringements by government use. .

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The IPKat

AUGUST 31, 2022

The IPKat is pleased to host the following contribution by Katfriend Marianna Ryan (Edwin Coe and King's College London) on the topical issue of how Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) are to be treated and what IP issues come with them. Here's what Marianna writes: Ownership of IP rights by DAOs – the future is nigh?

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SpicyIP

APRIL 24, 2022

Fast forward to today, and while there’s still plenty of misunderstanding – patents, copyrights, trademarks, inventions, innovations, 4th industrial revolution, etc have all become buzzwords! Is there space for a genuine discussion around the whats, whys, whens and hows underlying the IP system?

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Patently-O

AUGUST 4, 2021

Ryan Abbott, have made headlines around the world as they sought patent protection for a fractal-inspired beverage container (shown below) that they contend was invented by DABUS. Like the ‘conception’ test in American patent law – the object of the test is to determine the identity of the ‘devisor’ of the invention.

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IPilogue

JUNE 9, 2022

Jenny Peng is an IP Innovation Clinic Fellow and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Pina D’Agostino’s Directed Reading: IP Innovation Program course. Compulsory licencing is when a government permits another party to produce a patented product without the consent of the patent owner. What is compulsory licencing?

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 25, 2023

While many speakers cautioned against moving too quickly to change the rules for AI-generated inventions, others warned that doing nothing could result in chaos for the USPTO and grave economic and innovation losses for the country.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

When the America Invents Act (AIA) was before Congress a decade ago, it was heralded as the first comprehensive patent law since the 1952 Act. Ten years’ perspective on the new law, however, shows that its changes to patent policy have been more evolution rather than revolution. The AIA is simply the latest step in the long arc of moving U.S.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 9, 2021

According to WIPO’s Revised Issues Paper on Intellectual Property Policy and Artificial Intelligence , AI-generated works refers to any inventions created by AI without any human intervention. ‘AI An important question that arises is can AI actually invent on its own?

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Intellectual Property Office Blog

APRIL 26, 2022

E very year, on the 26 April, World IP Day is celebrated across the globe. Intellectual property - IP - is an integral part of that environment. Lois Varnam's description of the Wing Man invention. So, how do we help young people to understand IP? . Framework for an IP-led future . Innovation without limits.

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IP Close Up

APRIL 30, 2024

Alan Nelson, a pioneering biomedical engineer and entrepreneur, shared his three-decades of experience with AI machine learning at the recent IP Awareness Summit. The science, Continue reading

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Thailand has built a comprehensive Intellectual Property (IP) system, aligned with international standards, to protect the rights of creators, businesses and innovators. Managed by The Department of Intellectual Property (DIP) under the Ministry of Commerce it supports a global practice of IP laws. The Trademark Act B.E

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Intepat

MARCH 13, 2025

As such, the United Nations Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, 1967 (Outer Space Treaty) specifically establishes that outer space, and the celestial bodies present in it cannot be subject to any national jurisdiction.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Readers may remember from the IPKat in conversation with Tim Moss , CEO of the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) that the IPO is continuing their consideration of artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property, which launched last year with a call for views and Government Response on AI and IP. is seeking?evidence

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

Continuing our annual tradition of recounting the significant developments that impacted the Indian IP landscape in the year that has been, we bring you a round-up of 2021’s developments. This year, we have divided these developments into three categories: a) Top 10 IP Judgments/Orders (Topicality/Impact).

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Patent Trademark Blog

MARCH 6, 2025

Foreign inventors, however, must be careful to follow the patent laws of the country in which the invention was made. While US patent law does not forbid foreign applicants from applying for US patents, the foreign country in which the invention was made might have strict laws about where the first patent application must be filed.

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SpicyIP

JULY 3, 2022

The IP Reveries series is an experimental ‘fun’ series set in an imaginary classroom where we are using a dialogue format to raise questions and discussions around IP that traditionally don’t find a place to get voiced either due to long standing assumptions, or due to being seen as ‘too trivial’ to discuss in more formal settings.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 19, 2022

The IP Reveries series is an experimental ‘fun’ series set in an imaginary classroom where we are using a dialogue format to raise questions and discussions around IP that traditionally don’t find a place to get voiced either due to long standing assumptions, or due to being seen as ‘too trivial’ to discuss in more formal settings.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 22, 2023

[ On December 20, the UK Supreme Court affirmed its previous decision to deny registration to inventions by Dr. Stephen Thaler’s AI DABUS, holding that an AI software cannot be listed as an inventor. The government is indeed looking to address these concerns through policy and legislative exercises discussed here.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

He has a keen interest in commercial laws, especially in IP and allied fields. He has 80 patents to his credit, among which his invention of the Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) has been phenomenal in the world of wireless networking systems. The heading of the last slide said ‘Key to Success is Innovation and IP’.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The Committee Report’s observations on TK start off with a lament on how TK and indigenous inventions by grassroot level innovators often do not meet the criteria of patentability and how the lack of a proper statute renders such inventions without protection. The Report notes that this Section is too prohibitively worded.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 15, 2023

For more than 40 years, they’ve been resisting the Bayh-Dole Act’s mandate cutting Washington out of micro-managing the commercialization of federally funded inventions. As a result, few inventions were ever developed. And under the guise of increasing domestic manufacturing, they’re well on their way to reasserting control.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 18, 2025

It's a new year and a fresh start to IP news, events and opportunities. geographical indications), designs, best foreign language/non-English IP book and IP in general (books covering diverse IP rights). The themes conference is Turning IP Ambitions into Action: Creating Connections, Collaborations and Communities .

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 26, 2023

The Board determined that there was a motivation to combine and reasonable expectation of success in combining the prior art references to arrive at the claimed inventions but rejected Yita’s obviousness challenge because Appellee MacNeil’s secondary-considerations evidence was compelling and indicative of non-obviousness.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Moderna and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are poised for a legal battle over inventorship of a vaccine for COVID-19. While a court may resolve the dispute over inventorship for the patent application, court review of current inventorship rules could be a slippery slope to chaos.

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SpicyIP

JUNE 28, 2023

and Saranya Ravindran This June 28 th marks the thirteenth anniversary of the tabling of the Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on The Protection and Utilisation of Public Funded Intellectual Property Bill, 2008 (PUPFIP) – a legislation introduced by the UPA government on the recommendations of the National Knowledge Commission.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Here is our recap of last week’s top IP developments including summary of the posts on the lack of participation by academics in court proceedings, Patent Controller’s order on patent of addition, and Delhi High Court’s decision on latching and passing off. Whither Indian IP Academics’ Engagement with the Judiciary?:

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

As 2023 comes to an end, in line with our annual tradition, we take stock of the top IP developments that occurred this year. The decisions in the second category, i.e., Top 10 IP Cases/Judgements (Jurisprudence/Legal Lucidity) reflect those that we thought showed a fair bit of jurisprudential rigour and/or legal lucidity. Nataraj, Ms.

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IP Watchdog

JULY 21, 2024

With exquisitely bad timing, the National Institutes of Heath (NIH) floated a new policy governing licensing inventions made by its scientists subtitled “Promoting Equity in Access Planning.”.

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

PERA is no doubt an ambitious bill. In terms of its design, the proposed legislation attempts to deal with each of the Supreme Court’s decisions in Alice, Mayo and Myriad, plus all of their progeny applications thereafter engendered by the Federal Circuit, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), all the way down to the U.S.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 24, 2022

IP Reveries: Class I – “IPR” – A Tantalising Term or Troubling Terminology? To start with, let’s think a little about what IP and IPR mean. You all have touched on different aspects of the question from what/what-not IP to why IP and what after IP. Swaraj Barooah & Lokesh Vyas. The best (yet banal!)

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