Confidentiality Copying Invention Publishing 
Patent Trademark Blog
OCTOBER 26, 2022
If you have a simple product that others can easily copy, you wouldn’t be thinking about keeping anything confidential. In order to gain certain exclusive rights from the government, inventors must disclose detailed information on how to make and use their invention. Let’s face it. Keep it secret or file a patent ?
Patently-O
AUGUST 13, 2021
The 1836 Patent Act added the caveat that no patent should issue on an invention previously “described in any printed publication.” In particular, the petition asks whether documents made available only to customers, and not generally to the public, count as being published. 102(a)(1). Centripetal Networks, Inc.
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SpicyIP
JULY 5, 2021
The appellant sought a copy of a PhD Thesis titled “Studies on some nitrogen fixing genes of Azotobacter vinelandi” from Jamia Millia Islamia, a central university and public authority for the purposes of RTI Act. 12 ) or anywhere else, because granting of patents necessarily includes publication of invention. Background. Assessment.
SpicyIP
MARCH 21, 2024
Please note: in the finally published Rules (last week), the proposed change to pre-grant oppositions has been modified in the finally published version. For readers interested, Swaraj and Praharsh have also just put out a 2 part post on the finally published version of these same Rules (see here and here ). Prashant Reddy T.
Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 18, 2022
At that time, Kruse was facing allegations that he had committed plagiarism, first in his 2000 dissertation at Cornell University and later in his 2015 book One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. Plagiarism findings such as this are often warning signs of additional copying in the work.
IIPRD
MAY 4, 2023
Introduction A “patent” is a right granted by a state to an inventor for a fixed period i.e., 20 years in India in exchange for the disclosure of the invention. The fundamental patentability criteria are universal namely: novelty, inventive step, non-obviousness and industrial applicability.
Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog
JULY 21, 2022
Copyright in its general sense, confers exclusive rights to the author and thus protects the works from being copied or reproduced. The protection afforded by design registration is similar to the protection afforded by patenting an invention under the Patents Act, 1970. Term of copyright in registered designs.
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