IP and Legal Filings

MAY 15, 2024

It serves the purpose of having Intellectual Property Rights in existence that is to give legal rights for the protection of the invention and creation. Intellectual Property License is an agreement between the owner of the Intellectual Property and the party to whom the rights are being given in exchange for a fee or royalty.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 5, 2024

If you are an inventor of a consumer product there are reputable companies looking for inventions and ideas to bring to market, and their business model is built on taking products to market over and over again, and they are in constant need of new products and improvements.

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 10, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently reversed an appeal of a decision granting summary judgment that an invention was reduced to practice during the term of a cooperative research and development agreement thereby granting the government a license to use the invention. By: Morgan Lewis

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IP Close Up

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The news in much of the inventing community is often doom and gloom, but for Stephen Key, a successful creator and entrepreneur, the opportunities faced Continue reading.

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 27, 2022

An invention developed by a business or individual inventor may have great value to that business or individual, either through the commercialization of the invention or by licensing the invention to others in return for a license fee. But how do you know when your invention is patentable? By: Ruder Ware

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 7, 2022

To recap, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ruled that the Broad Institute (Broad) was the first to invent single-guide CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology for use in eukaryotes.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 19, 2024

While the court addressed multiple issues, I want to focus here on the damages analysis - particularly regarding comparable licenses and apportionment. The damages dispute focused primarily on how Altria's expert derived a 5.25% royalty rate from comparable license agreements, particularly a license between Fontem and Nu Mark.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 26, 2025

On 25th March 2025, the Patent Office officially released the Draft Guidelines for Examination of Computer-Related Inventions (CRI), 2025 , for public consultations. On a quick glance at the guidelines, the guidelines include discussion surrounding all aspects of patenting software (novelty, inventive step, clarity, etc).

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JD Supra Law

MARCH 7, 2025

Inventions made in a particular country are generally first-filed in that country before entering the United States via a direct Paris Convention filing or, more commonly, a PCT national stage entry. Convenience, national pride, and foreign filing license laws encourage such home country first-filings. By: Goodwin

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JD Supra Law

MAY 29, 2024

The Situation: The National Institutes of Health ("NIH") proposed a new policy requiring entities that receive licenses from the NIH to certain taxpayer-funded inventions to submit Access Plans for ensuring broader patient access to the products embodying such inventions. By: Jones Day

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The IPKat

JANUARY 19, 2025

In this decision, the Board of Appeal upheld Inhibrx's European patent EP2812443 directed to a genus of anti-CD47 antibodies defined by their epitope binding and functional characteristics, finding both sufficient disclosure and inventive step. Inhibrx's has licensed its CD47 antibody technology to Celgene (BMS).

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SpicyIP

JULY 13, 2022

The Kerala High Court vide Order dated 14 June 2022 directed the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) to consider the representation for issue of compulsory license for the drug Ribociclib. Secondly , what is a compulsory license? Background. The writ petitioner is a breast cancer patient. 58,140/- per month.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 10, 2024

If IPR is not understood in technology transfer process, sharing of knowledge and invention faces legal challenges. Indian Copyright Act, 1957 – sections 30 to 32 provide for licensing. It allows for both voluntary and compulsory licensing. Image Sources: Shutterstock] The transfer is initiated by a license agreement.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The Court relied on the facts to establish that Dotmovies.baby and other rogue websites, were causing an “irreparable loss” (a constituent of the three pillar-test along with prima facie case and balance of convenience), to the plaintiffs by promoting pirated content and dissuading viewers from subscribing to legitimate, licensed platforms.

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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. As a result, few inventions were ever developed.

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SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Zolgensma and the Inadequacies of the Compulsory Licensing Regime. Compulsory Licensing: Chinks in the Armor. The TRIPS Agreement has incorporated certain fail-safes in the form of Compulsory Licenses for when patents are seen to be acting contrary to public need. The invention not being reasonably affordable.

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IIPRD

MARCH 13, 2025

All the creations of the human minds such as designs, inventions, artistic works, names, symbols, etc. Patents Patent protects new inventions that features technological advancements or economic significance or both and are capable of being used in the industry. Key Features: The invention must be new, non-obvious, and have utility.

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IP Close Up

JANUARY 11, 2022

In the decade since the adoption of the America Invents Act (AIA) patent licensing has become more arduous for many technology companies and independent inventors. Continue reading.

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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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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

United States, the Federal Circuit upheld royalty-free license rights of the U.S. government a broad scope of licensing rights under the Bayh-Dole Act, including in some instances inventions that predate the funding. . The Federal Circuit’s decision confirms that 35 U.S.C. 202(c)(4) confers to the U.S.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 21, 2025

on Friday by telling a California federal jury that the chipmaker has "invented" a nonexistent breach because it wants to claw back valuable patent licenses. A lawyer for Samsung Electronics Co. closed out the third trial in contract litigation with Netlist Inc.

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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. Licensing: Consider licensing the patent to other companies.

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IP and Legal Filings

DECEMBER 19, 2024

A core ethical concern behind patenting Metaverse technology is that it would likely result in monopolies of patents, thereby potentially curtailing growth in open, inclusive platforms and even a type of digital divide by excluding the individual who cannot license or purchase patented ideas. In Bishwanath Prasad Radhey Shyam v.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2024

In fact, virtually every invention of consequence during the Industrial Revolution was patented, and patents played a major role in encouraging investment and innovations actually making it to market, just as patents continue to play a similar vital role in the virtuous cycle of innovation.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In the decade since the America Invents Act (AIA) was enacted, patent licensing challenges have increased for many technology companies and independent inventors. From the perspective of the Intangible Investor, 2022 will be a year of new opportunities and transitional growth. grants for the first half of 2021.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

United States, the Federal Circuit rejected a strict temporal limitation on when the Government’s license rights in patents stemming from federally funded research is triggered under the Bayh-Dole Act.

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IP and Legal Filings

JULY 15, 2024

INTRODUCTION To identify the role of public funded research in the pharmaceutical industry one has to first determine the problems faced by the public in accessing these inventions and the level of patenting activities in the public funded research institutions in the pharmaceutical sector.

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Dragons' Den

JANUARY 23, 2025

She has set up an exclusive license with all her brand partners to sell their products outside Ukraine. This means that Paul may have lost his exclusive rights to prevent someone else from adopting his invention. Once a patent ceases, anyone would be free to use an invention without requiring the inventors permission.

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Kashishipr

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Three pharmaceutical companies, including Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Micromet AG, and Cambridge Antibody Technology (now acquired by AstraZeneca), in September 2003 announced signing a non-exclusive cross-license agreement. In the latter case, no license or permission of any sort is required from the patent owner for commercializing the product.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

If ever there were a theory of fair use invented for litigation, this is it,” they write. . “Fair use cannot be perverted into forfeiting a sound recording’s protection under copyright law just because the recording is copied, distributed, and performed in something other than its cleanest sound.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 17, 2025

This week in Other Barks and Bites: the Copyright Royalty Board announces audits into Section 112 and Section 114 statutory license royalty payments by iHeartMedia and others; the Ninth Circuit finds that kinetic, moveable sculptures may be sufficiently fixed to establish copyright protection; the USPTO publishes findings from economic studies showing (..)

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 13, 2024

The DHC, in this judgement, continued with its restrictive interpretation of 3(k), narrowing the scope of inventions which are excluded u/s. The invention, which related to a system of data profiling, would use a profiling module to read records from data sources, compute statistics, and other descriptive information relating to the data set.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 17, 2023

Just when you think you have enough things to worry about, you stumble upon one more. In its wisdom, Congress enacted a “Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Plan” as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. The program kicks in by imposing “maximum fair prices” for drugs as determined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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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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Kashishipr

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

To be specific, market research performed before filing a Patent Application or after obtaining Patent Protection may help an inventor or innovator significantly in examining the business environment for his invention or innovation. He would also understand the profitability and commercial viability of his invention.

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IIPRD

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Licensing of their games are also controlled under Copyright only. PATENT Patent is a right granted to a developer that excludes others from making, selling or even using the invention for a period of time i.e. from the date of application Patent lasts for 20 years. Harmeet Singh for copyright infringement.

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SpicyIP

JULY 23, 2021

In this post, I shall discuss the impact of non-working, the possible remedies in revocation and compulsory licensing, the issues surrounding disclosure of working and possible reforms in the system. The patent bargain is a delicate balance struck between access to the invention and incentive to the patentee. Impact of Non-Working.

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