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Why Should You Patent Your Invention?

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A patent is a form of intellectual property right granted to an invention. It gives the inventor or patent owner exclusive rights and prevents others from manufacturing, selling, or marketing the invention. Patents are valuable assets that enable one to share their invention in public without any fear of being misused.

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Traditional Knowledge on the agenda for 2024

The IPKat

A key aspect of the Basic Proposal is an international disclosure requirement for patent applications (Article 3): For inventions based on genetic resources, applicants would be required to disclose the country of origin, or if that is unknown, the source of the genetic resources. Image from Pixabay.

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Patentability in India

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

A patent is an exclusive right granted to the owner of an invention, that allows him to prevent others from making, using, or selling the invention without the consent of the owner. The patent law in India is governed by The Patent Act, 1999 (hereinafter referred to as the Act). This is called the patentability of an invention.

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False Patent Marking as False Advertising: Overcoming Dastar

Patently-O

In Dastar , the defendant had copied footage from an old television series that had entered the public domain, made minor edits, and sold the resulting videos as its own product without attribution to the original creators. 1125(a)(1)(B) (Section 43 of the Lanham Act). ” Dawgs brief.

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The US Constitution as an Interpretive Tool for Obviousness Law

Patently-O

The fact that a patent as flimsy and as spurious as this one has to be brought all the way to this Court to be declared invalid dramatically illustrates how far our patent system frequently departs from the constitutional standards which are supposed to govern. Great A&P Tea Co. Supermarket Equip. 147, 156 (1950).

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What Is The Right Stage For Filing A Patent?

Intepat

The sine qua non of an invention is its conception. However, something more than conception is required for an invention to be ready for patenting. The first way, actual reduction to practice, is by actually building the invention so that it works and others can follow how it is built.

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Role Of Intellectual Property Rights In The Era Of Quantum Technology

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Recent advances in the technical field of quantum technologies have not only experienced high amount of attention in information science and software engineering disciplines but also gained a wide interest of government due to its complexity and global significance. billion by 2027. billion by 2027. Image Source: IStock].