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How to Patent a Medical Device

Patent Trademark Blog

Even pending patent applications may help startups raise capital. Manufacturers and designers should pay particular attention to independent claims and the strategy of filing child applications. Explore filing design patent applications on such visual features. Start with a provisional or nonprovisional patent application?

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Secrets in the Pitlanes : Navigating IPR In Formula 1

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This is where the various protections under international Intellectual Property Rights conventions come into play. WHAT DO INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS SAY? The Confidential information, which may be sold or licensed, is a Trade Secret and forms a part of Intellectual Property Rights. Trade Secret is defined under Article.39

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What is intellectual property (IP)?

Patent Trademark Blog

A helpful definition by the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA) identifies certain conditions for confidential information to be protectable: commercially valuable by being confidential; known only to a limited group of persons; and kept confidential by reasonable efforts. We’re talking about trade secrets.

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Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law in the UAE

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The UAE is a member of the Patent Cooperation Treaty 1970 (PCT) and WIPO Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property 1883 (Paris Convention). Trade Secrets or Confidential Information. Confidential information is protected under the general criminal, civil and, with respect to employees, labour laws. Trademarks.

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Fish Principals Author Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal Article, “Strategic IP Considerations of Batteries and Energy Storage Solutions”

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But the lithium-ion battery has now expanded far beyond the consumer electronics industry, sparking a gold rush of research and development aimed at producing lower-cost, higher-performance batteries that can be used in a wider range of applications.