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Why Should You Patent Your Invention?

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A patent is a form of intellectual property right granted to an invention. It gives the inventor or patent owner exclusive rights and prevents others from manufacturing, selling, or marketing the invention. Patents are valuable assets that enable one to share their invention in public without any fear of being misused.

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Can We Patent An Idea That Made To Public?

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Will it affect the patentability of the invention? It is time to think if our ideas are patentable if we share them in the public domain. In other words, it calls the idea a lack of inventiveness. This can also occur as a consequence of sharing your ideas in the public domain. The solution.

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45 Years Ago Today, a New US Copyright Act Became the Law of the Land

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For example, Section 108, which grants certain privileges to libraries and archives “open to the public” to copy and share materials, was also new to the 1976 Act. Another example: The 1976 Act revised the schedule for when US works pass into the public domain; this schedule has been revised several times since.

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Evolution of Tests of Creativity in Copyrights

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Originality is the quality that distinguishes produced or invented works from copies, clones, forgeries, or derivative works by being new or novel. Eventually, a publication featuring sixteen of the forty-two matriculation papers was released by the University Tutorial Publishing Limited.

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Draft Patent Amendment Rules – Increasing Efficiency of Granting Patent Monopolies While Forgetting the Reason for Allowing Them in the First Place

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In this post, we will be discussing the proposed amendments which, if passed, can alter the key flexibilities of working statement requirement, pre-grant opposition, information about foreign applications and disclosure of invention claimed divisional application.

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False Patent Marking as False Advertising: Overcoming Dastar

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In Dastar , the defendant had copied footage from an old television series that had entered the public domain, made minor edits, and sold the resulting videos as its own product without attribution to the original creators. 1125(a)(1)(B) (Section 43 of the Lanham Act). ” Dawgs brief.

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Patent Law Canons and Canards: Bonito Boats

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Bonito Boats centers on a Florida statute prohibiting copying of unpatented boat hulls via direct molding. And, once a patent expires (or is refused or forfeited by public use), the balance allows “free access to copy whatever the federal patent and copyright laws leave in the public domain.”