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Book Review: Intellectual Property and the Design of Nature

The IPKat

The other two chapters turn to the conceptualisation of nature in patent law. In 'Denaturing Bacteria', Daniel Schneider discusses the controversy over the patenting of biological sewage treatment and questions of the public interest.

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IP as a political instrument in Russia

The IPKat

Another crucial change is abolishing the national regime of exhaustion of IP rights for certain goods and brands. The list includes such well-known brands as Apple, HP, Panasonic, Siemens, Tesla, and Volkswagen. Is anything here on the list? International license.

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My Word! Design Patents on a Typeface

LexBlog IP

Namely, anything protected by a design patent will enter the public domain generally 15 years after the patent office issued the design patent. That means after those 15 years pass, then anyone can use the typeface as far as patent law is concerned.

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Emoji and World of Intellectual Property

IIPRD

It wasn’t long till these set of symbols were adopted by the leading tech-brand Apple in its keyboard and since then, its use has been unstoppable. Patent Law. Certain technologies are used to create, display or translate emojis that are patented to them.