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Logos Remain Relevant: Source Confusion and Design Patent Infringement

Patently-O

This post will focus on another key issue from the case – the relevance of logos in design patent infringement analysis. Still, ornamental logos found on the accused product can still be relevant as visual distractors in the process of evaluating similarities and differences between the claimed design and accused design.

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Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on IPR: Tipping the Scales of Patent Law? Part II

SpicyIP

Section 11 (b) read with Rule 24B of Patents Rules, 2003 concerning patent application exam stipulates a 48-month period from the date of priority or filing of patent application within which a request for examination of the application needs to be made. Concluding Thoughts.

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The Draft Patent (Amendment) Rules, 2023

Intepat

Patent applications and prosecution thereof is currently governed under the Patents Rules 2003 (2003 Rules). The 2003 Rules came in super session of the erstwhile Patents Rules, 1972 and provided an elaborate description of the filing procedure and allied actions.

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False Patent Marking as False Advertising: Overcoming Dastar

Patently-O

This case began back in 2006 when Crocs sued Double Diamond and others for patent infringement of Crocs’s design patents. 23 (2003), false claims about the inventorship or authorship of a product are not actionable under the Lanham Act. Crocs largely prevailed in those actions. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. ,

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Competition Law: The Patent Pendulum

Intepat

Interface of Competition Law and Patents Patent law particularly bears more relevance to antitrust jurisprudence. Patent law operates on two principles i.e. to encourage innovation and to promote the progress of science and technology. The Supreme Court in Eldred v. An example of this is the case of FTC v.

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Discerning Signal from Noise: Navigating the Flood of AI-Generated Prior Art

Patently-O

You might consider a technical paper from a conference which sketches out a conceptual gearbox design (but omits specific gear ratios and material specifications). In his student note, Lucas Yordy focuses on some of the same issues – and argues that AI generated disclosures may decrease the patent incentive to research and disclose.

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IP as a political instrument in Russia

The IPKat

One of the first enacted changes concerned the rules for calculation of the compensation paid to the patent owner in the event that an invention, utility model, or industrial design is being used without the patent owner’s authorization. These rules were introduced in the 2021 amendment to Article 1360 of the Civil Code.

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