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Announcing the 3rd Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law

SpicyIP

Shamnad Basheer’s 46th birth anniversary today, we at SpicyIP are proud to announce the third edition of the Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law. Shamnad won the very first edition of that competition for his essay on Section 3(d) of the Patents Act. On the occasion of our founder Prof. (Dr.)

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Book Review: Intellectual Property and the Design of Nature

The IPKat

But don’t stop reading if your passion lies along other branches of IP law, because this volume has plenty to say about copyright, trademarks, and more. The other two chapters turn to the conceptualisation of nature in patent law. yet this relationship has received very little attention.

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IPKat Book of the Year 2021 Winners!

The IPKat

Best Patent Law Book The nominations were: EPC.App and PCT.App (Self-editable EPC and PCT reference books) Patent Subject Matter Eligibility: A Global Guide, (eds) Paul W Browning, Christopher C Johns and Sara A Leiman The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA, by Jorge L.

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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Indonesia

IP and Legal Filings

As of this writing, there is no explicit regulation governing the NFT market or the way NFTs should be produced, acquired, gathered, coined, etc. The Indonesian government has examined the existence of blockchain technology cautiously, leaning more toward acceptance of the new technology than outright prohibition. MOCI Regulation No.

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Your Intellectual Property Attorney Can be Located in a Different State

LexBlog IP

For most intellectual property questions, your attorney can be located anywhere in the United States. This is because most of the relevant intellectual property laws involving patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets are federal laws, which apply uniformly throughout the United States.

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Defining Boundaries: IP Law Addresses Exterritoriality, Lexicography & Human Touch

LexBlog IP

.” But our problem often is that the law, or lawyers, frequently use unfamiliar or exotic terms that others claim have no more understood meaning than a reference to a “ vermicious kind ,” and those or other lawyers may overuse a word that they do not seem to actually comprehend. One is the case of Abitron Austria GMBH v.

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WHAT, IN THE NAME OF GOD, …?: Intellectual Property Rights In Holy Names, Sacred Words, & Other Aspects of Creation

LexBlog IP

That question is “how have various countries’ intellectual property laws addressed efforts to copyright, trademark, or patent holy names, sacred words, or outputs of creation?” Before turning to other matters though, let me just note something concerning patents and yoga.