IP and Legal Filings
JANUARY 30, 2023
Image Sources : Shutterstock] The Sensorama Machine, invented by Morton Heilig in 1962, created a simulation of riding a motorcycle where the user could experience the vibrations of the bike, sounds, and scents associated with the ride while immersed in a 3D video environment. This was the first instance of the pre-metaverse virtual world.
SpicyIP
JANUARY 5, 2024
March-in rights are provisions that allow the government to require a license for inventions stemming from this investment, upon the fulfilment of certain conditions. The guidelines have added a consideration of factors that may “unreasonably limit the availability of the invention to the public.”
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The IPKat
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Its focus is on how open approaches to innovation may overcome market failures in situations where patent protection blocks subsequent improvements of an existing invention (also called “follow-on innovation”). This, in turn, brings on such market failures as excessive royalties or unjustified refusal to license a patent.
Patently-O
DECEMBER 24, 2022
A branded drug manufacturer can sometimes extend its exclusive right to market a drug by patenting a method of using the drug and successfully suing a potential generic competitor for infringement based on the premise that an instruction or warning appearing on the generic product’s label will induce doctors and/or patients to infringe the patent.
IP and Legal Filings
MARCH 5, 2024
Introduction In today’s digital economy, trademarks play an important role in developing a brand’s identity, establishing customer trust, and assuring market competition. The accessibility of Internet markets and the ease with which information may be shared have given rise to new opportunities for trademark infringement.
SpicyIP
MAY 8, 2022
Isn’t it that our ‘intelligent’ invention will need to fit into some formal pigeonholes to receive protection from the law? Pocrati: Encouraging certain innovations by giving them the power to block other inventions on the marketplace….( Why doesn’t the government just fund inventors, for inventions it thinks are desirable?
Patently-O
DECEMBER 14, 2023
The case involves an attempt by generics to begin marketing a generic version of Acadia’s Parkinson’s drug Nuplazid (pimavanserin). The examiner will likely see those as two separate inventions and force them to be divided. This will be an interesting appeal to watch. 121 safe harbor.
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