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What are the intellectual property rights for startups?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

There are several types of IPRs that startups should be aware of: Patents: Patents protect new inventions and grant exclusive rights to the inventor for a limited period. Patents protect novel products or processes, trademarks safeguard unique branding elements like logos or names, while copyrights secure original creative works.

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How to Enforce Intellectual Property Without A Lot of Money

Patent Trademark Blog

Second, you can add your trademark registration to the Amazon brand registry. Finally, there are several inexpensive alternatives to trademark litigation. In other words, the accused infringer may try to force you litigate in their home state if they sense that you will sue them in your preferred location.

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Why or why not file a patent application?

Patent Trademark Blog

Many common misconceptions surrounding patents may also lead to poor choices in declining patent protection. Here are some helpful articles that provide rough cost estimates for the initial filing and ongoing prosecution: cost of utility nonprovisional patent application ; total cost of obtaining a utility patent ; design patent costs.

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IPSC: Remedies and Creativity

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Several modern-day remedies were enacted to reduce the risk that IP owners would otherwise be able to recover only nominal damages—reasonable royalties for patents; statutory damages for © infringement; disgorgement of total profits for infringement of design patents. Social movements brought down brands that TM law couldn’t.

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TMSR Session 3: Private Actors…and their Machines

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A variant of separating the mark from the brand; not seeing it in all categories, and we may have a world in which some marks—maybe the 1%--are not divided from brands but the others are. Other examples: design patent, as Sarah Burstein has writte n. Human desire for TMs? Putting pictures side by side often isn’t enough.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (January 17- January 22)

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Other Posts COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Infringement? The Battle Between Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech Continues The litigation surrounding mRNA patent thickens in the USA as Pfizer/ BioNTech files defence and counterclaims against the patent infringement allegations made by Moderna. Case: Marie Gold Realtors Pvt.

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Rise Of IP Issues Due To The Increasing Popularity Of NFTs

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Moreover, the abundance of tokenisation has even led to the minting of patents as NFTs even though there is no clear provision about the change in ownership, royalties, and related licenses. This concurrence of NFTs and IP has resulted in numerous issues, some of them are discussed hereunder. IP Implications under NFTs. Conclusion.