Larson & Larson

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Product designers, inventors, and artists of all types need to understand the meaning of intellectual property and how to protect their creative contributions. . Today’s law protects intellectual property to encourage creativity and the incentive to work for the public good by compensating the artist or inventor fairly. . .

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Kashishipr

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Usually, the inventor is under constant fear of leakage of information relating to the invention as a certain disclosure has to be made to the manufacturer. It is for this reason that inventors prefer signing a binding Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). Why Should an Inventor File a Provisional Patent Application?

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 24, 2023

various three-letter and four-letter government agencies), ensuring certain innovations remain confidential. For inventors in the midst of patent proceedings, a secrecy order can indeed feel like a formidable obstacle. defense departments (e.g., This veil of secrecy could extend to concepts and items conceived by individual civilians.

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Trading Secrets

OCTOBER 24, 2023

various three-letter and four-letter government agencies), ensuring certain innovations remain confidential. For inventors in the midst of patent proceedings, a secrecy order can indeed feel like a formidable obstacle. defense departments (e.g., This veil of secrecy could extend to concepts and items conceived by individual civilians.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 12, 2023

various three-letter and four-letter government agencies), ensuring certain innovations remain confidential. For inventors in the midst of patent proceedings, a secrecy order can indeed feel like a formidable obstacle. defense departments (e.g., This veil of secrecy could extend to concepts and items conceived by individual civilians.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 18, 2024

A trade secret is a form of intellectual property that protects confidential business information that (1) has economic value, providing a business with a competitive advantage, and (2) is not generally known or readily accessible to others. Also, confidential business information is not a trade secret if it can be reverse-engineered.

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

” The inventors here used conventional plant breeding to create a new form of petunia (Calibrachoa). However, there was also no express or implied obligation of confidentiality binding individuals who attended. Nothing was for sale at the event, no orders were placed, and attendees were not permitted to take samples or cuttings.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

the Supreme Court held that an inventor’s sale of an invention to a third party who is obligated to keep the invention confidential can create an on-sale bar under AIA §102(a). In its 2018 decision in Helsinn Healthcare S.A. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. ,

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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

MARCH 30, 2021

Conception is the formation, in the mind of the inventor, of a definite and permanent idea of a complete and operative invention. A patent application must clearly explain an invention in sufficient detail to enable one of ordinary skill in the art to make and use the invention. Filing a patent application first requires an invention.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 10, 2023

For example, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is responsible for rules governing federal trademark registration for product and service identification and for issuing patents to inventors, regardless of where the business is located. The Copyright Office maintains records of all copyright registrations throughout the US.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The free evaluation of evidence of prior use (T 0042/19) New EBA referral: When is prior use of a product excluded from the prior art for lack of enablement? This week, the UK supreme court finally rejected the appeal by Dr Thaler to have DABUS named as an inventor on a patent application. This is one to watch for 2024.

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LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The thing that trips up a lot of inventors — and causes the USPTO to hold back giving out patent “candy” — is if their invention is strictly in the software or computer-related arts or is a discovery of a scientific process. There, the Supreme Court set out a special analysis that threw the U.S.

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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

MAY 27, 2021

It acts as a placeholder so an inventor can delay upfront costs of pursuing a full patent application while seeking additional funding, performing further testing of the invention, and determining its usefulness and value. Reasons to File a Provisional Patent Application. Keep Trade Secrets Secret. Filing Date.

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IPilogue

JULY 7, 2021

The employee created or developed the invention with the employer’s confidential information. This applies to any new and useful art, process, machine, manufacture or composition, or any new and useful improvement. . The invention is the product of the employee being instructed to solve a specific problem or invent a solution.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Information subject to the duty includes: Prior art. Preserving confidentiality and privilege. The Notice extends these duties broadly to “each individual associated with the filing and prosecution of a patent application” and “each individual associated with the patent owner in a reexamination proceeding.” Diagnostic methods.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

Consider that a utility patent grants the inventor rights to exclude others from making, using, and selling the patent invention for a period of 20 years after the non-provisional patent filing date. This means that your provisional patent application may not be used as prior art against the subsequent patent filer.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 27, 2023

Resistance to an AI as an inventor primarily stems from the fact that the written text of existing patent laws refers to human inventors, e.g., “individuals” or “persons,” which leaves little or no room for interpretation of a non-human AI as an inventor. Patent law requires at least one human inventor.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Review the competitive and patent landscape to learn about the prior art, and craft your patent strategy accordingly. First Come, First Served: The US patent system will only award a Patent on an idea or invention to the first inventor who files a patent application.

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IP Whiteboard

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A key question is whether patent law should allow AI to be identified as the sole or joint inventor, and if not, whether this will discourage future inventions being protected by patent (and instead, being kept confidential). The call for views points out that AI is already used to create copyright works, such as music and art.

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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. An opt-in scheme could address the confidentiality concerns of IP owners.

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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. An opt-in scheme could address the confidentiality concerns of IP owners.

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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. An opt-in scheme could address the confidentiality concerns of IP owners.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 3, 2023

This decision indicates that an SEP owner sometimes might need to provide information to a prospective licensee (under a confidentiality agreement), although that may not be necessary for an experienced licensee who can consult existing patent licenses they have entered with others. non-discriminatory] part of FRAND).

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 24, 2023

UK Supreme Court Confirms No Patent for “AI-invented” Inventions Image from here On December 20, the UK Supreme Court affirmed its previous decision to deny registration to inventions by Dr. Stephen Thaler’s AI DABUS, holding that an AI software cannot be listed as an inventor. SpicyIP intern Vedika discusses this development. Broadcom Inc.

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