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Intersection of Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law with respect to Cross Licensing Agreements

IIPRD

This has led to the introduction of intellectual property rights which are a set of exclusionary rights as it excludes the world from enjoying a set of rights arising out an invention or creation, except the inventor or creator. Cross-licensing agreements can both restrain and advance competition.

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A Seller’s Guide to Navigating Intellectual Property Law on Amazon

LexBlog IP

Patents A patent permits the owner to exclude others from making, using, offering to sell, selling, or importing the invention of the patent. There are two types of patents that Amazon sellers should be familiar with, utility patents and design patents. This can lead to expensive “false marketing” litigation.

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The Quest for a Meaningful Threshold of Invention: Atlantic Works v. Brady (1883)

Patently-O

Brady for an improved dredge boat design. The Supreme Court ultimately reversed the lower court’s decision upholding the patent and found instead that Brady’s claimed invention lacked novelty and did not constitute a patentable advance over the prior art. The case addressed the validity of a patent granted to Edwin L.

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Monday Miscellany

The IPKat

The next day, LES is holding the full-day LES100 Training Course, “Commercialising IP through the Power of Licensing”, which is the introductory course in the Licensing Executives Society’s Intellectual Asset Management Series and it is designed for those who are relatively new to licensing. Degree Programme).

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Industrial Designs - Why Should You Protect Your Unique Designs?

Canadian Intellectual Property Blog

Industrial designs (“ID”) protect a product’s unique appearance such as shape, configuration, pattern and/or ornamental features. The protection can be obtained for the design of the entire finished article or just a part of it. These types of considerations are protectable through patents or trade secrets. Notably, an applicant (i.e.,

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Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC V. The Assistant Controller of Patents and Designs- A Reasoned Judgement or Inherently Contradictory?

SpicyIP

In a judgement passed on May 15, the Delhi High Court despite noting the lack of clarity on the concepts of “technical effect” and “contribution” in the context of the patentability of Computer Related Inventions, declared that the subject invention had technical effects.

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Intellectual Property And The Festival Of Halloween

IP and Legal Filings

today as the end of October month approaches the market gets flooded with different kinds of Halloween-themed articles (consumable and non-consumable) and various Halloween-themed costumes. The market gets flooded with Halloween-themed costumes, and goods, and buyers rush up to purchase them. [Image Sources : Shutterstock].