SpicyIP

JANUARY 18, 2023

To compare and seek alignment of Indian patent laws with developed country patent laws, without understanding how their governments incentivize industry, deliver and support public healthcare or how their public and private healthcare infrastructure (esp.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Here is our recap of last weeks top IP developments including summaries of the posts on unreasoned patent grants and rejections, the One Nation One Subscription initiative by the government, and the DHC order on missing reasons for ex-parte injunctions. This and a lot more in this weeks SpicyIP Weekly Review. Anything we are missing out on?

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Patently-O

APRIL 17, 2024

In Dastar , the defendant had copied footage from an old television series that had entered the public domain, made minor edits, and sold the resulting videos as its own product without attribution to the original creators. 1125(a)(1)(B) (Section 43 of the Lanham Act). ” Dawgs brief.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

As disclosed by KEI and The Intercept , the US government gave companies special authority to use another person’s technology, without permission, to produce Covid 19 vaccines. However, given that this is a sport of kings, history shows that when billion-dollar biomedical inventions are involved, disputes drag on in courts for years.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

Introduction Intellectual property entails the protection of legal rights for inventions and creations made by individuals or businesses using their minds. Copyrights safeguard the artists’ rights in the inventive and imaginative content that abounds in digital media. [ii] These advantages can be made profitable for the owner.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

This is not the first time the UKIPO has engaged with a public call for views on the topic of AI and IP. In a 2020 consultation , the government sought to broadly understand the implications of AI for IP. Option 3: protecting AI devised inventions though a new type of protection. The consultation closes on 7 January 2022.

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IIPRD

MARCH 5, 2025

One aspect regarding the laws that govern copyright is that in the United States alone the copyright is only given by law to works that are created by human beings. Copyright Office dismissed the claim, arguing that the existence of a human being behind the invention is a precondition for copyright. However, the U.S.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 2, 2022

The Vidya Drolia case laid down certain conditions for non-arbitrability of disputes and stated that grant and issue of patents and registration of trademarks were exclusive sovereign or government functions, thus making them non-arbitrable. Olympic medalists and the right to publicity. Hero Electric Vehicles Private Ltd v.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 15, 2023

Perpetual ownership: Patent and copyright both have a limited period of protection, after which the traditional knowledge falls into the public domain. At the same time, the government may try to respect the customary secrets of indigenous communities and ensures that their policies respect cultural privacy of these communities.

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Intepat

MAY 22, 2023

The sine qua non of an invention is its conception. However, something more than conception is required for an invention to be ready for patenting. The first way, actual reduction to practice, is by actually building the invention so that it works and others can follow how it is built.

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IIPRD

MAY 4, 2023

Introduction A “patent” is a right granted by a state to an inventor for a fixed period i.e., 20 years in India in exchange for the disclosure of the invention. The fundamental patentability criteria are universal namely: novelty, inventive step, non-obviousness and industrial applicability.

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IP and Legal Filings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A patent is an intellectual property right granted by a government to the inventor, to protect their invention and allow the fullest commercial exploitation of the patented invention. The process of getting an invention Patent starts with Patentability Search, its also known as Novelty Search or Prior Art Search.

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Patently-O

MAY 20, 2024

The doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting is a long-standing, judicially-created doctrine aimed at preventing inventors from improperly extending their patent monopoly by patenting obvious variations of the same invention in multiple patents. Normally the obviousness doctrine first requires identification of prior art. Steinmetz v.

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IIPRD

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Recent advances in the technical field of quantum technologies have not only experienced high amount of attention in information science and software engineering disciplines but also gained a wide interest of government due to its complexity and global significance. billion by 2027. billion by 2027. Image Source: IStock].

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

After the Patent Amendment Act 2005, patent protection for food, pharma and chemical inventions is possible but this concept not very popular in India. A patent is a set of rights granted by the government to the inventor for his invention. It should be non-obvious or an inventive step. The answer is yes.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The fact that a patent as flimsy and as spurious as this one has to be brought all the way to this Court to be declared invalid dramatically illustrates how far our patent system frequently departs from the constitutional standards which are supposed to govern. Great A&P Tea Co. Supermarket Equip. 147, 156 (1950).

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SpicyIP

MAY 15, 2023

Other Posts World of Possibilities: Single Judge Bench of Delhi High Court Allows Use of Celebrity Information Available in Public Domain Delhi High Court specifies some contours of publicity rights in India! government lawsuit alleging HIV drug patent violations. to form a committee with Padma Shree awardees, Smt.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Patents (including utility models) are protected through registration with the UAE Ministry of Economy, Intellectual Property Protection Department (IPPD) and/or through the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) Patent which is administered by the GCC Patent Office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and governed by the GCC Patent Law. Federal law no.

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SpicyIP

APRIL 17, 2023

Furthermore, the court also observed that the plaintiff has alleged that the defendant has infringed the copyright in its drawing however, prima facie the defendants were able to establish that these drawings are a part of the public domain and thus no exclusivity lies over them. Not re-examining the re-fled application.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The management report must include a chapter where the management informs about the status of compliance of the entity with applicable regulations governing IP matters. If an annuity is not paid in due term, the patent expires, and the invention enters the public domain, thus, it may be used or exploited by any interested party.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 29, 2022

“Intellectual Property” refers to mental creations such as inventions, literary and creative works, as well as symbols, names, and pictures utilised in business. These are the first steps toward paperless trade. Section 72A of the IT Amendment Act of 2008 specifies the penalty for disclosing information in violation of a legal contract.”

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SpicyIP

APRIL 24, 2022

Nya: Wait, irrespective of whether IPR is only about copyright, patent, or it is some way of governing knowledge (as Slato Says), what we (as a society) are ultimately trying to get through them is the question that should decide what IPR should be. They didn’t need permission to borrow from the public corpus or public domain.

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IIPRD

JUNE 6, 2022

The term “Traditional Knowledge” is defined as “Traditional knowledge relates to local and indigenous cultures’ awareness, inventions, and customs all over the world. The patent statute ensures the safety of technological solutions that are scientifically relevant, uniformly novel, and involve an inventive step.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. billion) as this is the reason for its global importance.

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IP and Legal Filings

MARCH 14, 2023

Numerous attempts have been made to incorporate TK and related advancements into the IPR framework because TK is predominantly made up of intellectual inventions and creations, which is the traditional field of intellectual property protection. But it was immediately apparent that employing IPR for TK has its limitations. 61 (2010). [iv]

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IIPRD

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Internet technology is developing faster than the laws that govern it. After the term of protection expires, the copyrighted work is out there in the public domain and the rights of the author terminate. Detecting infringements of property rights is a fairly complex task both in the online as well as offline world.

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Intepat

MARCH 7, 2025

Further, when evergreening occurs, the patented drug remains out of the public domain indefinitely and impedes the manufacturing of generic versions of the drug. In plain terms, pharmaceuticals or medicines are an essential public good. Hence, what should be a temporary monopoly right is extended over long periods of time.

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Barry Sookman

MAY 4, 2020

Is an invention autonomously generated by artificial intelligence patentable? This is a question that is being studied including by the United States Patent and Trade Mark Office (USPTO) which launched an investigation into issues associated with patenting artificial intelligence inventions. patent law, 35 USC §§ 1 et seq.

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