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2023 IP Resolutions Start with a Review of IP Assets

The IP Law Blog

A company should always be aware of any new inventions under development, and it is good practice to investigate the status of any inventions developed by company employees during the past year. Such inventions may be protectable under federal patent laws. A special note about customer data.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

The IPKat

The second edition offers revised, or wholly rewritten chapters to the overlaps discussed in the first edition so as to reflect recent developments, as well as to include new chapters (the overlap between privacy and copyright law; privacy and secrecy; trademarks certification marks and collective marks; and IP and traditional knowledge).

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Patent Law Canons and Canards: Bonito Boats

Patently-O

From their inception, the federal patent laws have embodied a careful balance between the need to promote innovation and the recognition that imitation and refinement through imitation are both necessary to invention itself and the very lifeblood of a competitive economy. ” Compco Corp. Day–Brite Lighting, Inc. , 234 (1964).

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2023 IP Resolutions Start with a Review of IP Assets

LexBlog IP

A company should always be aware of any new inventions under development, and it is good practice to investigate the status of any inventions developed by company employees during the past year. Such inventions may be protectable under federal patent laws. A special note about customer data.

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A Look Back at India’s Top IP Developments of 2021

SpicyIP

An interim order issued by a single-judge bench of the Delhi High Court recognised the right to be forgotten (RTBF) as a subset of the fundamental right to privacy. The Kerala High Court had recognised a petitioner’s right to privacy and reputation while seeking the removal of their name from judgments published on IndianKanoon.

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What is Blockchain Technology and has it been Patented?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. A distributed ledger showing the first inventor, an authorized licensee, etc.

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What is Blockchain Technology and has it been Patented?

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Just like other patents, the patent protection on Blockchain also achieves exclusive rights to its inventor or assignee in exchange of details about the blockchain invented to be released in the public domain. A distributed ledger showing the first inventor, an authorized licensee, etc.