Patent Trademark Blog

MAY 16, 2024

When competitors start copying your innovative product, what is your fallback strategy to stop them? This expedited filing strategy will hopefully give you a utility patent sooner that can be used against competitors who copy your functional features. Even a slight improvement might make a consumer product worthy of a patent.

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Patent Trademark Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Here is a breakdown of the initial filing fees if you are providing acceptable design drawings from the priority design application: $770 flat rate attorney fee, including priority claim; plus. In contrast, certain foreign patent offices do not require or even allow surface shading.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 30, 2023

In our previous weekly reviews ( here , here and here ) we have collectively summarized 16 blog posts, 37 case summaries and other national and international IP developments. Supreme Court refused to intervene in the matter of royalty rate revision as per the statutory licensing scheme under Section 31 D of the Copyright Act.

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Patent Trademark Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This covers the initial filing cost including our flat rate attorney fee, USPTO fees and illustrator fees. Additional costs will apply after initial filing, such as paying the issue fee if and when your design patent application is allowed. When your utility patent application was allowed, the claims may have looked good at the time.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Last week we published 9 posts on topics such as our comments on the proposed Trademarks (1st Amendment) Rules, the Madras High Court’s decision with respect to patentability of business methods, and Union Minister of State for Commerce’s response on ability of the current IPR regime to cater concerns arising out of AI generated work.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

A trademark is an instrument using which a business can set itself apart from its competitors. Indicating the goods and services offered by the business, a trademark can be any word, phrase, logo, symbol, combination of colours etc. However, it must be kept in mind that a trademark has to be a visual representation.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

We’ve tried to represent a diversity of subject matter also in this list, so it’s a mixed bag of cases dealing with patents, trademarks, copyright law etc. The case was discussed on the blog here. The Division Bench comprised of Justice Yashwant Varma and Justice Dharmesh Sharma. HULM Entertainment v. Bolt Technology v.

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