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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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Prior Art: The Patent Pitfall

Larson & Larson

It’s the legal term for ‘thing that is exactly like my thing that was in the public before I made my thing.’ The term covers anything that was sold in public, used publicly, described in a magazine or similar publication, or already has a patent on file with the patent office. Exceptions.

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maintaining ex-employees' voicemail/email doesn't violate Lanham Act or right of publicity

43(B)log

Pennsylvania right of publicity: Pennsylvania protects the name or likeness of any natural person that has commercial value and is used for any commercial or advertising purpose without written consent. That is, the likeness must be distributed to members of the public in a way calculated to bring in money.

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Best practices to avoid copyright infringement

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

There’s a significant probability that someone already owns the rights to the content even if you cannot locate an explicit declaration stating that it is intended for public use. It would be preferable to obtain written authorization from the copyright owners before using the original content. Document your own work.

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Lawfare in the orphan drug space

43(B)log

Neurelis received orphan drug designation from the FDA for its Valtoco for management of ARS in 2015. It then received fast strack designation, which allowed it priority review, and filed an NDA for Valtoco in 2018; this was pending at the time of the operative complaint. But the citizen petition wasn’t excepted commercial speech.

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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. At the same time, market uptake of biosimilars in the United States continued to increase, suggesting that there is room for expansion of biosimilars in the U.S. Market uptake of biosimilars has generally trended upwards in 2020.

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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]. .”