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Empowering Innovation: The Role of Intellectual Property in Technology Transfer

IP and Legal Filings

Its gained momentum with the advent of importance in R&D and patent registration. Further Trademarks Act, 1999 and Designs Act, 2000 allow licensing of trademarks and designs respectively. Intellectual Property Rights Protection IP licensing is an essential element of technology transfer. Technology-transfer.

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Affordable Innovation: Reduced official fees for design registration

JD Supra Law

The Hong Kong Designs Registry has recently announced a reduction in official fees relating to design registration and post-registration services. The primary objectives of this policy are to facilitate timely registration of designs, encourage the use of electronic filing, and drive innovation through registered.

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Growth in Industrial Design Registrations Sporadic Over Past Decades

Corsearch

With the challenges posed by name saturation and the reduced availability of work marks, industrial designs are increasingly important within intellectual property strategies. When people think about designs they typically think of patents, but the world of protecting designs is far more extensive than that.

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Critical Analysis on Intellectual Property Rights and its components.

IIPRD

Introduction Intellectual Property Rights is a right which is connected with the person or the company’s intangible property. What are the rights in Intellectual Property? This right can be related to music, a book, a logo, any art work, work related to science, designs of the industries. Like, goodwill.

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Protecting Semiconductor Chip Design under the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA) – Part I (Registration and Inspection)

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Mask work is a type of intellectual property protection designed to protect layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits. The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. Registration of a Mask Work. Understanding Mask Work.

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Protection of Jewellery under Intellectual Property Rights

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Protecting jewellery with the aid of intellectual property rights is a topic of interest which sparks curiosity. While copyright is concerned with the creative part of jewellery, design is concerned with the shape, configuration, pattern, and mix of lines or colours in two or three-dimensional forms.

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UKIPO’s report on “Emerging public perceptions of intellectual property in UK media”

The IPKat

On 29 February 2024, the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) released a report on “ Emerging public perceptions of intellectual property in UK media ” authored by fellow Kat Hayleigh Bosher. The second case concerned the trade marks registrations of some iconic Welsh words by a Welsh company.