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Empowering Innovation: The Role of Intellectual Property in Technology Transfer

IP and Legal Filings

It’s the first important step towards protecting owner’s rights and its lawful public use. Further Trademarks Act, 1999 and Designs Act, 2000 allow licensing of trademarks and designs respectively. Well, it helps in commercialisation of the invention by allowing its public use.

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The Good Get: Interviews, The Predicates Of Copyright Ownership, & Divorcing Subjects From Owning Copyright Content

LexBlog IP

That then plays off the rest of the title’s allusions to separating “subjects” from the “predicates” of copyright ownership, themselves words connoting the foundational elements of both “ any complete sentence ” and at times a court’s jurisdiction over infringement matters.

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Precedential No. 34: "IFG" Fails to Function as a Trademark For Live Plants Because It's a Varietal Name

The TTABlog

The CAFC explained that an entity that is the source of a varietal may use a particular term as a trademark for its specific varietal, but it must be clear that there is also a generic name for the varietal. This notion reflects the Board’s earlier decisions that if the term is used as a designation of source (i.e.,

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Intellectual Property Tools for Protecting Fashion Goods

LexBlog IP

Below are three possible situations in which you can use intellectual property tools with respect to a product’s nature, originality, consumer driven features, and potential for growth. In the event that infringement occurs, a designer must show that the infringer copied the designers copyrighted work. [5] ” [8].

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Intellectual Property Tools for Protecting Fashion Goods

Above the Fold

Below are three possible situations in which you can use intellectual property tools with respect to a product’s nature, originality, consumer driven features, and potential for growth. In the event that infringement occurs, a designer must show that the infringer copied the designers copyrighted work. [5]

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Data science needs law: reflections on the experiences of data scientists working in Africa

The IPKat

This story highlights the need to bridge the knowledge gaps that data scientists and lawyers have with each other’s work and shows how multi-disciplinary dialogue between the two fields may result in the design of better AI systems. There are debates around the extent to which this practice could lead to ‘ AI data laundering ’.

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Biosimilars 2020 Year in Review

Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

The biosimilar pathway was designed to increase competition for biologics and reduce healthcare costs. Note that FDA still has not designated any biosimilar as interchangeable to its reference product. As noted above, companies are already taking advantage of these new designations. Introduction. Federal Legislation.