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Why Should You Patent Your Invention?

Intepat

It gives the inventor or patent owner exclusive rights and prevents others from manufacturing, selling, or marketing the invention. The foremost advantage of obtaining a patent is that it gives exclusive rights to the inventor. Patents give the inventor the security and confidence to share their invention in public domains.

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Cellect or Reject? SCOTUS Asked to Consider Fate of ODP Doctrine

Patently-O

The doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting is a long-standing, judicially-created doctrine aimed at preventing inventors from improperly extending their patent monopoly by patenting obvious variations of the same invention in multiple patents. Some key old cases: Bate Refrigerating Co. Sulzberger , 157 U.S.

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What Is The Right Stage For Filing A Patent?

Intepat

The second way, i.e. constructive reduction to practice, is when the inventor can explain to a person of ordinary skill in the art in sufficient detail so that they may make use of the invention without requiring undue experimentation. There is always confusion among inventors as to when will be the ideal time for claiming a patent.

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AI and IP – to legislate or not? UKIPO’s public consultation seeks evidence

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This is not the first time the UKIPO has engaged with a public call for views on the topic of AI and IP. In a 2020 consultation , the government sought to broadly understand the implications of AI for IP. Option 1: expanding the definition of “inventor”. Option 2: recognising AI as an inventor in patent applications.

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IPSC Closing Plenary Session

43(B)log

Equality: in discussion of equality, in Tasini, Roche, and even Kirtsaeng—the first two seem to have resurrected the romantic author not as creator but as transactor: each case claims to protect small creator/inventor, with little awareness of practical effects. public interest opposed in those cases and in Kirtsaeng.

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Patentability Search of Software in India

IP and Legal Filings

A patent is an intellectual property right granted by a government to the inventor, to protect their invention and allow the fullest commercial exploitation of the patented invention. It allows the inventors to know about similar inventions which already exist and make changes to their inventions in order to make them patentable.

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Patentability of Food Recipes and the Section 3(e) Challenge

IIPRD

A patent is a set of rights granted by the government to the inventor for his invention. The claim of the applicant should not be the one existing in the public domain at the date of filing of an application. For understanding the issue at hand, one needs to be aware of the meaning of a patent and food recipe. Conclusion.

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