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Confidentiality restrictions around clinical trials and prior public use (T 0670/20)

The IPKat

The question became whether the patients could be considered members of the public, and whether their participation in the clinical trial therefore constituted prior public use of the formulation.

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Getting your Industrial Design Registration in Oman

IP and Legal Filings

FDI is dominated by the United Kingdom with an estimated value of US$11.56billion (48 percent), followed by the UAE USD 2.6billion (10.8 Industrial Design in Oman. The design must be original and, again, must conform to Oman’s standards of decency, in order to enjoy protection. percent), followed by Kuwait USD 1.1billion (4.6

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Empowering Innovation: The Role of Intellectual Property in Technology Transfer

IP and Legal Filings

It’s the first important step towards protecting owner’s rights and its lawful public use. Further Trademarks Act, 1999 and Designs Act, 2000 allow licensing of trademarks and designs respectively. Well, it helps in commercialisation of the invention by allowing its public use.

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Ninth Circuit Pours Jack Daniel's in “Punchbowl” Trademark Suit

LexBlog IP

Supreme Court held that the Rogers test does not apply “when an alleged infringer uses a trademark in the way the Lanham Act most cares about: as a designation of source for the infringer’s own goods.” Read more

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Can You Patent Your Idea?

LexBlog IP

Novelty: An invention or one very similar to it must already be patented, described in someone else’s patent or patent application, described in a printed publication, on sale, or in public use before the application date (with some exceptions granting the inventor a grace period of one year prior to the application date).

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Precedential No. 34: "IFG" Fails to Function as a Trademark For Live Plants Because It's a Varietal Name

The TTABlog

The CAFC explained that an entity that is the source of a varietal may use a particular term as a trademark for its specific varietal, but it must be clear that there is also a generic name for the varietal. This notion reflects the Board’s earlier decisions that if the term is used as a designation of source (i.e.,

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Exporting Patents: Boiled, Broiled, Barbecued or Fried

Patently-O

The Fifth Circuit had sided with the patentee — holding that “Such a dependence on technicality would require us to countenance obvious schemes, perhaps as simple as omitting an important screw, designed to evade the mandate of § 271(a).” Deepsouth has important implications beyond the component-export arena.

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